What? Huh? Whazzat? WTF?

Rating: 1/10 (23 June 2007)

It's not often I go to the trouble of posting a review on IMDb for really bad movies, but I had to post a comment about "Children of Men". Good God, what a ZZZZZZZZzzzzz fest. I *thought* that since so many of the previous reviewers had rated this film so highly that I would also enjoy it, sadly, I was wrong. Little or no character development, sub-plots that go nowhere, and a strangely disjointed story line just made this movie almost unbearable to watch. I finally realized what hooked me into seeing this movie...watch the trailer. Almost all the scenes have Julianne Moore and Michael Caine, although their combined on-screen time is minuscule compared to the other characters. That's the hook that got me, I thought I was going to see a movie where Caine and Moore were significant characters, and instead I got film filmed with Brits whose accents and rapid muddled speech made the dialog almost unfathomable. I agree with many of the other reviews, a lot of the scenes looked like video game screen shots...the prison scenes, the battle scenes, and the mandatory car chase/crash/shootout scenes.
Phew. Phew. Phew.