DVD : Children of Men (Widescreen Edition)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 0025193251329
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 15
Label: Universal Studios
Languages:
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
MPN: MCAD61032513D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Running Time: 110 minutes
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: January 05, 2007
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
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
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: 
- Dull - - I walked out
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 … Read More
Rating: 
- Devoid of worthy substance
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 … Read More
Rating: 
- A Classic Dystopian Film. Sadly underappreciated
I remember seeing some previews for this film, and thinking that it looked interesting. I’m a big Clive Owen fan, and aside from what I saw in the trailer, I didn’t really know much about it. Had never read the book, hadn’t seen any promo for it aside from the aforementioned trailer.
As I was watching it I found myself realizing I was watching something special. I viewed it on the train ride from the east coast to the West coast, and was thoroughly captivated and drawn into this well … Read More
Rating: - Possibly the best SF movie in a decade
I really can’t think of a better science fiction movie in the last decade. It isn’t about the standard story of how we bring about our own demise, or the immediate aftermath. In fact, we don’t even know why people stop having children. Instead, we look at the world twenty or so years from now, and see how people have learned to deal with it.
What really makes this a superb movie is the way in which the story is told. Long, single shots make this a beautiful movie in its own right. Most things … Read More
Rating: 
- A medieval miracle tale cast in the year 2027, with a fine performance by Clive Owen
I suspect that if one agrees with what appears to be director Alfonso Cuaron’s premise, that humankind’s basest instincts for selfishness, fouling its own nest, violence toward each other and the acceptance of authoritarianism when faced with fear can be met by the redemptive power of hope and love, then one will accept Children of Men as a film of emotional power.
For me, Children of Men is a movie in which Cuaron tries to stuff in far too many actions. He seems to aiming for the kind of allegory … Read More
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