Brilliant movie-making

Rating: 9/10 (27 April 2007)

Alfonso Cuarón has created a movie which transports you 20 years into the future and blows your mind away with incredible cinematography, exceptional acting and action, and long, complex film takes which seem almost impossible to accomplish.
In short, this movie is highly recommended.
Clive Owen plays Theo, a depressed alcoholic who, like most of the planet, has lost hope for the world as women worldwide have suddenly lost the ability to bear children. He becomes embroiled in a plot to transport a pregnant woman to a project intended to solve the infertility crisis. The world's governments have become more of a police state, and Theo walks through life with a keen sense of depressed normalcy.
The movie makes indirect points about government and military use of power, terrorism, what we take for granted, living in a war zone, minority and immigrant rights, and how one would act in a crisis.
The movie was gripping and poignant, and I re-watched many of the scenes again on the DVD to try and figure out how they made such an incredible world.
Obviously, not for all; I have read many of the negative comments about people finding the plot and character development to be poor, the storyline to vague, and all of the "unanswered questions" that were never answered, as well as the "I must be crazy but this movie sucked." To the detractors: IT'S A MOVIE. You have 1:40 or so to get a story across. It's not a book where you have 300+ pages to go into intricate detail. You can't explain everything, and in many ways, not explaining everything stimulates your imagination which I assume those who couldn't figure out "why" the world went to hell. Much is explained about Theo, Jasper, and even Julian to give you a rather good idea about their past and what motivates them.
All in all, go see this film on DVD, it's a great political action movie.