Full of holes

Rating: 4/10 (29 August 2014)

I found the whole story line from the film, Children of men, to be far fetched and well.... to be honest, it was stupid. So here we are in England in the future. The streets look like a war zone, complete with bombings, body parts flying everywhere, rubble, tons of graffiti, military police with their growling guard dogs, and cages full of prisoners right on the city streets. Yet our main character is off to work and stops on his way to purchase a cup of coffee to go... Starbucks I suppose has managed to stay in business. Apparently no babies have been born in the world for 20 years. There is not one explanation as to why this has occurred. We see birds, cats, cows and dogs. They obviously have no problems reproducing. This world wide event which caused only human sterility is left completely to our imaginations. I couldn't think of one single reasonable answer. Suddenly out of nowhere is a woman who is 8 months pregnant. She needs to be saved. I don't know what she fears. That is not explained either. Everyone seems to be trying to get into England, as though it is the last safest place to live, yet the pregnant girl is on a mission to escape from England. Why? Why? Another totally ridiculous part of this movie was when our pregnant girl tell our main character about how she noticed her stomach getting larger and larger, but didn't realize she was pregnant because she had never seen what a pregnant woman looked like. WHAT? In the future are old photos and information about pregnancy banned or something? Has she never seen a pregnant cat or dog? The whole film from start to finish was too much to swallow. Some films I've seen I don't completely grasp. When the movie interests me though, I'll watch it again then gain a better understanding. This movie however, Children of men, I will never watch again. There was not one thing about it which intrigued me enough to give it another chance.