Bloody ace!

Rating: 10/10 (28 September 2006)

I can't recommend this film more, it's probably the best film I've seen all year! It's one of the best sci-fi films ever made. There aren't any flaws at all. The acting is brilliant; Clive Owen gives what I think is his best performance, Michael Caine gives his funniest and most emotional, Chiwetel Ejiofor is amazing as always and Charlie Hunnam does that thing he did in Cold Mountain (but with a Geordie accent) and manages to scare the sh*t out of you. There are some genuine shocks in store. Thanks to Alfonso Cuaran's fantastic naturalistic camera-work, who should be nominated for an Oscar for this (but won't be), the violence becomes more brutal, the acting more powerful and the shocks are so realistic that you frequently feel as though you're watching real footage. Scenes such as the drive through the forest look so real that they are excruciatingly tense and absolutely terrifying to watch.
Really, the thing I wanted to address about the film is THAT tracking shot. Totalling something ridiculous like seven minutes long, it is the best scene I have ever seen. It would be really good anyway because of the genius action scene going on. But considering it is a seven minute long uninterrupted tracking shot, it is so much more. So much happens in it, it must have been almost impossible to choreograph. Yet somehow, it looks so natural and fluid, it's almost like it wasn't practised prior to shooting it. I would pay the ticket price just for that scene. Well not really. Five pounds off peak to see a film? Bit steep.
In conclusion, go see Children Of Men right now. It is one of the best films I've ever seen and I can't recommend it enough.