Children of Men

I liked this movie.

Clive Owen was awesome



(but then again, Clive Owen is always awesome)

The supporting cast was great. Julianne Moore and Michael Caine were phenomenal.





(but then again, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine are usually phenomenal)

Roger Ebert says,
(talking about the beginning of the film) "Theo Faron (Clive Owen), the film's hero, watches the news in a cafe and then leaves with his paper cup in his hand. Seconds later, a bomb destroys the cafe. This is essential: Faron is terrified. He crouches and fear freezes his face. This will not be like action pictures where the hero never seems to fear death."
(talking about the filming) "Here again, the action scenes seem rooted in sweat and desperation. Too many action scenes look like slick choreography, but Cuaron and Owen get the scent of fear and death, and nobody does anything that is particularly impossible."
(talking about the film in general) "Cuaron fulfills the promise of futuristic fiction; characters do not wear strange costumes or visit the moon, and the cities are not plastic hallucinations, but look just like today, except tired and shabby. Here is certainly a world ending not with a bang but a whimper, and the film serves as a cautionary warning. The only thing we will have to fear in the future, we learn, is the past itself. Our past. Ourselves."



I think I gave you all that without actually giving away the story. Go watch the movie. It's good.



A very small part of that last picture might have something to do with my love for Clive Owen.



(that one too)