Children of Men

Pros: The King Crimson song.
Cons: Everything...

Quite some years ago, I had read P.D. James novel, The Children of Men, and found it to be interesting, if not that enthralling of a story. The premise was that there are no more children, and the novel opens with the death of the world's youngest ...

Pros: Interesting premise, intense images...
Cons: ... silly errors, political agenda more important than film to its makers, constant profanity

Imagine a world with no children. Sometime early in the 21st century, something – no-one knows quite what – has caused fertility to reduce to nothing. Now, in 2027, the world’s youngest citizen has died – at 18 years old. (In true John ...

Pros: great casting, very strong story, impacting plot, impressive cinematography and imagery
Cons: none

Based on the novel The Children of Men written by author P.D. James, the film Children of Men gives a bleak outlook of the future, and an uncompromising view of where we are heading. In the year 2027, society as we know it has fallen from ...

Pros: Film is great at creating a grimy mood
Cons: The story is created of plotholes--it is the afterbirth of a better film

Ordinarily I stay away from reviewing something that has more than 20 reviews unless I see something that to me was important but left out. To be fair to the other writers, I tend to put plot spoilers in my analysis (while warning of it) where they find ...

Pros: I thought it was a good sci fi story.
Cons: It can get a bit preachy.

I love a good sci fi story, and visions of various apocalyptic futures. I felt that Children of Men fell into these categories quite well. I will start by saying, I have not read the book, so I can't compare the two. The Story The ...

Pros: Great cinematography and acting, crazy story
Cons: Depressing

Children of Men is a very unique science fiction movie starring Clive Owen. It is from Alfonso Cuaron, the director of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and based on the novel by P.D. James. This movie was nominated for three Academy ...

Pros: atmospheric details, social commentary, great performances and awesome thrills
Cons: a combination of derivative premises, long and boring setup

Children of Men is a surprisingly effective thriller. What's most surprising about it is how well it takes such a warmed-over premise and brings it to life through writing, direction and performances that are nothing less than awesome. In the year ...

Pros: interesting premise and cinematography
Cons: violent, profane and very depressing

Sometime last year when I went to the movies, I saw a trailer for Children of Men. I was slightly intrigued by the premise of a world without children and the need to protect a young woman who miraculously becomes pregnant, but it looked like ...

Pros: Cinematography, performances
Cons: What the hell's going on?

There are very few films that come around nowadays that totally bring a new approach to the idea of cinema—and Children of Men is one of the few. Taking place in 2027 Britain, Children of Men introduces you to Theo Faron, an everyday ...

Pros: Mis-en-scene. Brilliant tracking cinematography (Emmanuel Lubezki). The Allegory. Clive Owen. Michael Caine.
Cons: Uneven picaresque pacing may keep viewer off balance. Lack of connectedness among the central characters

". . . Thou turnest man to destruction: again thou sayest, Come again, ye CHILDREN OF MEN. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday: Seeing that is past as a watch in the night." -- from Psalm 90. The year is 2027, and "Baby Diego," ...

Pros: Cuaron's Direction, Script, Cinematography, Sound, Editing, Music, Look, & Cast.
Cons: None.

Dystopian films are nothing new to cinema yet in today's world, it feels like a sense of dystopia. In 1992, a novel by P.D. James called The Children of Men tells the story of a futuristic, depopulated Britain where women are suddenly losing the ...

Pros: Er.... Some of the acting, music, sets.
Cons: Story, conception, lack of imagination, squandering of first half's basic premise.

Late in 2006, two films by two Mexican directors were released, each dealing with the notion that children are the hope of the future in an otherwise damned civilization of adult chaos and violence. Guillermo del Toro’s ...

Pros: Dark and gritty, this is a worst case scenario that is gripping and compelling.
Cons: Dark and depressing.

Children of Men (2006) Directed by Alfonso Cuaron, from the novel by P.D. James. The year is 2027 and the big story on the news is that the youngest person in the world, “Baby Diego” has died at age 18. Humanity has been struck with world wide ...

Pros: Amazing film, wonderful cast, gorgeously depicted from start to finish
Cons: Hopeful yet inconclusive ending

"As the sound of the playgrounds faded, the despair set in. Very odd, what happens in a world without children's voices." Children of Men is an amazing depiction of just how odd the world could get without the hope that children bring to our lives. In ...

Pros: Music, cinematography
Cons: Not sure society could actually hold together so well relatively speaking under these circumstances

Like "V for Vendetta," "Children of Men" is set in a neofascist Britain in the late 2020's, but that is where the similarities end. "V for Vendetta" is ultimately about redemption through violence. By contrast, violence, even more than infertility, is ...