A work of art

Rating: 10/10 (22 September 2006)

Seeing this at the cinema. Being dragged along not expecting much of a movie. But then suddenly the movie took pace from the start the acting was good and this didn't look like what i had imagined it to be. No NO instead instead i am greeted with a wonderfully gritty tone, some in your face violence and tense scenes. The basic plot of Children of men is simple.
*Warning Spoilers* Its 2027 and Humanity has gone into chaos because women around the world have a infertility defect (they can't become pregnant). The only country that seems to have law left is Britain which is now hunting down immigrants and putting them in camps. At the very start the worlds youngest person has died at the age of 18. The news says he was stabbed because he never gave a fan an autograph. In comes Clive Owen (Theodore)who is watching the news in a bar. He walks out, a bomb explodes, from there on in he is thrust into humanity's last hope. To protect the worlds only pregnant woman. The goal: to get the pregnant woman to a boat for an activist group that will take care of her and find a cure for the infertile woman. Out of the movie i think the best area was the immigrants camp which looked very gritty, harsh and terrifying. It also is an obvious reference for the Jewish Ghettos in WW2. Except the only difference is people of every nationality apart from Britain that were fleeing the chaos have been crammed in this area.
All in all its a very worthwhile movie to see. I thoroughly enjoyed it and will definitely be buying it on DVD when it releases on it.