Children of Men: Movie Review

Children of Men stars Clive Owen (Inside Man), Julianne Moore (Freedomland), Michael Caine (Batman Begins), Chiwetel Ejiofor (Inside Man), Charlie Hunnam (Green Street Hooligans), Danny Huston (Marie Antoinette), and Peter Mullan (On a Clear Day), and was directed by Alfonso Cuaron (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban). It is based on the novel The Children of Men by P.D. James. It's The Nativity Story meets Blade Runner. The story revolves around Theo (Owen), a disaffected man devastated by the loss of his only child living in a world devoid of hope. It is the year 2027, and no baby has been born in 18 years, and no one knows why. Theo is a Brit living in a London that even though to us appears to be a bleak shell of the London we know today, as it is besieged by daily acts of terror akin to modern day Iraq, is in one of the last countries still in good standing in the world, the United Kingdom, a country so privileged that it has to capture, cage, and deport (or otherwise dispose of) droves of illegal immigrants on a daily basis. And it is back into this world and into Theo's life that Julian (Moore), Theo's ex-wife and mother to his deceased offspring, comes with a proposition for/favor to ask of Theo. She needs his help getting an illegal immigrant out of the country. The catch? The illegal immigrant is pregnant, and needs to be delivered to the mythical Human Project, who will care for and protect her, as she has the child that could bring hope and light back to a world in the midst of its darkest days (no pressure, Theo).