Unexpected pleasure

Rating: 10/10 (8 January 2007)

I had to get out of the house. I pull up the movie listings and read a few quick summaries and picked the one that was starting in 15 mins. It turned out to be Children of Men.
I have never watched a movie and said out loud, 'Wow. This is an awesome movie!', but I said it twice during this one. There are several single shot scenes that last almost 10 minutes and they are enthralling. One immediately wonders how they pulled it off. I started to look for cgi effects or wires, but they mastered total immersion with this one. This movie is captivating. The action is immediate, the plot evolves at a nice rate, and the characters are diverse and developed enough to make their behavior credible and consistent.
And that says nothing about its theme and its relevance to current times.
Go see this movie!