Backdrop Story, Action Filled Movie

Rating: 8/10 (11 January 2007)

I remember watching Alfonso Cuarón's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban which was for me the first movie I saw by him. Great film well executed, but there's not much to add to a movie thats got its whole story and visual style laid out about.
So to see Children of Men, I came into the movie with very little knowledge about everything about this movie and I have to say the story was spectacular and provocative but once the movie started going, the whole story kinda too a back seat to what was really happening in the movie which was very simply an action-movie about one character guiding around the pregnant girl all movie. I feel like I didn't get enough time to tune in and feel anything about the immigrants, if they were even spose to be part of the main story or much else that was going on outside the main journey involving Faron and Kee. Cinematically, it was absolutely breath-taking, and all the shots were just so well executed and performed. But beyond that I think it lost some of what it first brought to the dinner table.