Children of Men
Starring: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore
Directed by: Alfonso Cuaron
DVD EXTRAS Forget the deleted scenes (they're minor), but Cuaron's documentary, The Possibility of Hope, features philosophers, including the outspoken Slovian culture critic Slavoj Zizek, digging deep into the film's issues. In a world of DVDs loaded with promotional filler, this is it's own kind of utopia. So is the behind-the-scenes stuff. You don't just watch the sequence in which a car is attacked from all sides -- you live inside it, ducking each fresh, ferocious assault. Seeing how it was done is a revelation. Cuaron's chief collaborator is director of photography Emmanuel Lubezki, a weaver of visual miracles. Lubezki, known as Chivo, didn't win the Oscar for best cinenmatography this year. Chivo was robbed.
(Posted: Mar 23, 2007)
Your Turn
Review 1 of 5
Icreate writes:
This was the second worse movie I saw this year...The Host was even worse...but for the Children without a director... Great actors...good script maybe...terrible story telling...oops that must be the director.
Nov 18, 2007 14:01:13
Review 2 of 5
MaxBuzz writes:
Children of Men is a very good movie.
Why does RS award a three and a half star review to this movie and a four star review to the horrendous Little Miss Sunshine?
Mind boggling!
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Jun 22, 2007 09:23:23
Review 3 of 5
jbb writes:
Worth watching.
Jun 15, 2007 15:38:13
Review 4 of 5
derrin07 writes:
http://scaled2size.blogspot.com/2007/03/children-of-men.html
May 25, 2007 23:03:52
Review 5 of 5
macaroni writes:
Children of Men surprised me - I expected an average, fairly entertaining action movie when I popped it into the DVD player. What I got was amazing. I agree - the car scene was shot wonderfully, and after the 3 minutes of panicked, fast-paced onslaught I realized I had been holding my breath. Also, the CGI affects used throughout the movie are so real it's uncomfortable. At its worst, CoM is a little heavy, particularly in the bloody Uprising, which stretched on for a little too long - despite the unusual, and clever, blood spatter across the camera. However, the acting is very well done, especially the character of Theo. CoM proved to be a hair-raising, violent and surprisingly deep movie, one that I would see agian anytime, and one that left me debating the very things that make humans human. 3.5 stars.
May 15, 2007 18:56:15
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