ladies and gentleman - the cinema does have hope!

Rating: 10/10 (2 February 2007)

I didn't really expect a masterpiece as a friend of mine and I were disappointed by all the choices of movies that were playing that night. But one of my unreliable friends told me this movie was incredible and for once, he was very much correct. The cinema has hope.
You watch the first scene as everyone is crowded around watching T.V and then Clive Owen appears in the picture as the camera follows him around after he leaves the store to get his coffee. You think nothing of it then all the sudden something huge happens and from right there to the very end, I was hooked on the story from its complete originality and incredible directing.
There are more than one scenes that the camera keeps on Clive Owen for more than a minute as quick edits and camera angle changes were not common in this masterpiece. There are scenes itself that already completed my thought as the best directed film of the year even (in my opinion) beating out Scorsee in The Departed (also a brilliant film). I really loved this movie as you notice glitches such as blood gets on the camera lens by mistake that could have been edited out but was kept there to give it more character. I also was intrigued by how random people would risk their lives to help Clive Owen's and Claire-Hope Ashitey's character as they took the dangerous journey to save the baby. No one is safe.
Finally something so original comes out of the theater this year. Thank you.