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Children of Men (Widescreen Edition)
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| Part No: | B000N6TX1I |
| Manufacturer: | Universal Studios |
| MFG Part: | MCAD61032513D |
| Customer Rating: | 3.5 / 5.0 |
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In 2027 as humankind faces the likelihood of its own extinction a disillusioned government agent agrees to help transport and protect a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea where her childs birth may help scientists to save the future of mankind. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 09/09/2008 Starring: Clive Owen Michael Caine Run time: 110 minutes Rating: R
Presenting a bleak, harrowing, and yet ultimately hopeful vision of humankind's not-too-distant future,
Children of Men is a riveting cautionary tale of potential things to come. Set in the crisis-ravaged future of 2027, and based on the atypical 1993 novel by British mystery writer P.D. James, the anxiety-inducing, action-packed story is set in a dystopian England where humanity has become infertile (the last baby was born in 2009), immigration is a crime, refugees (or "fugees") are caged like animals, and the world has been torn apart by nuclear fallout, rampant terrorism, and political rebellion. In this seemingly hopeless landscape of hardscrabble survival, a jaded bureaucrat named Theo (Clive Owen) is drawn into a desperate struggle to deliver Kee (Clare-Hope Ashitey), the world's only pregnant woman, to a secret group called the Human Project that hopes to discover a cure for global infertility. As they carefully navigate between the battling forces of military police and a pro-immigration insurgency, Theo, Kee, and their secretive allies endure a death-defying ordeal of urban warfare, and director Alfonso Cuaron (with cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki) capture the action with you-are-there intensity. There's just enough humor to balance the film's darker content (much of it coming from Michael Caine, as Theo's aging hippie cohort), and although
Children of Men glosses over many of the specifics about its sociopolitical worst-case scenario (which includes Julianne Moore in a brief but pivotal role), it's still an immensely satisfying, pulse-pounding vision of a future that represents a frightening extrapolation of early 21st-century history.
--Jeff Shannon
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| This movie is so bad i can't begin to tell people.It made no sense at all.Some poor girl in England is the only women left in the world that can have a baby and her water breaks while everyone is trying to kill her.People all over the world are at war for some reason and England is the last safe place on earth yet there still after her.Do yourself a favor and don't spend the 7.99 for this so called movie.It is on my top five movies of the worst i have ever seen. |
| Thought Provoking Entertainment | 2009-01-07 | 4 / 5 |
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| My 25 year old son recommended this movie; he has a bent toward music and movies well outside of mainstream. This movie offers meaning at multiple levels - look beyond the obvious. I enjoyed it and hope you find worth the viewing as well. |
| Perhaps a New Beginning | 2009-01-06 | 4 / 5 |
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This is an intriguing film that has you going one way, and then turns you around the other way. As the film goes on it is bloody and horrible how the fugees are treated.
I would suggest watching the short interview film under features before watching the movie. That will give you more of a sense of what the film is about and it helped in my understanding. I was not going to necessarily watch this film again because of the violence but after seeing the interviews, I will watch it again in a new light... a new beginning.
Jackie |
| Dull - - I walked out | 2009-01-01 | 2 / 5 |
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The movie tries to be Very Relevant And Topical by littering the scenery with terrorists and mistreated immigrants. The director obviously took a how-to-film-a-bleak-dystopia course at a community college, so the mise-en-scene is properly gray and gritty. But the movie is enough of a hack job, the premise dull and the characters hollow, that my internal alarm "this movie is never going to get anywhere" started ringing really loud after ten minutes. When that happens I give it ten more minutes to show some promise. It didn't. *click*
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| Devoid of worthy substance | 2009-01-01 | 1 / 5 |
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If you are a 12-year-old know-it-all, an addle-brained leftist or just simple, you'll probably think this movie is all that and a bag of chips.
If you have ever given the weighty issues of the day a moment's true consideration, however, you'll find yourself quickly losing patience with this screed. This is a worthless bit of tripe. It is anti-human and anti-civilization. It is truly abhorrent.
That it was well received indicates nothing more than the shocking degree that self-loathing has overtaken the human experience.
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