Jaw dropping, astonishing, brilliant.

Rating: 10/10 (24 September 2006)

Children of Men is a film set in England in the near future. The world has gone to pieces, a fascist state is in power, revolutionaries are plotting and women are infertile. Intense, bleak, harrowing stuff, and not since Blade Runner has a film captured and expressed this feeling through the sets, locations and production design so throughly. Though not exactly a "film noir" it's this feature of Children of Men, expressing the bleakness of this situation, through cinematic technique that is it's best asset. The plot is just as intense, characters well presented and interesting, acting is solid, script? Solid, cinematography? Phenomenal. If you can get you're head around the initial concept, (are you really going to sit there and say "women infertile? What a preposterous idea!") you will be treated to one of the best films of the year.