Review : Children of Men
Just wanted to do a quick review of Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men, before I go off and work.
- Love the look of this movie. The production design. Cuaron's selection as director is genius. The Third World and its detritus has made its way into the First World. The glimpses of future mixed with decay suggest a restrained Terry Gilliam.
- Weird story. Part post apocalypse, part slow apocalypse in progression, part Nativity story, part comment on terrorism and the new world order. Its a vision of a world that could happen.
- Action. I felt like I was playing Gears of War. The action is tense for an hour.
- Weaknesses - After 1h39 minutes you are pretty sure this is the best picture of the year, but then the movie ends somewhat abruptly and you end up feeling cheated. Not that its a bad ending. You just realize that you were never emotionally involved with the characters, much less the entire display of humanity, so it doesn't matter what happens.
