visceral and intimately powerful - a masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (13 January 2007)

I can't remember the last time I was as moved or as engaged with a piece of work in my life. I am as cynical and critical a film-goer as you are likely ever to find, and during Children of Men I was truly on the edge of my seat, incapable of turning away for much of the film. This movie at times thought provoking, touching, heart wrenching and darkly comical, but always brutal and immediate in it's depiction of a dystopian future of shocking violence and desperation. Truly the vision of a master filmmaker at work, Cuaron deserves the Best Director Oscar for the next five years for this one - you will be blown away, as was I.