This movie was directed by Alfonso Cuaron and written by a laundry list of screenwriters...
| Alfonso Cuarón | (screenplay) & | |
| Timothy J. Sexton | | (screenplay) and |
| David Arata | (screenplay) and | |
| Mark Fergus | (screenplay) & | |
| Hawk Ostby | (screenplay) |
...as most big movies are, I have observed. The new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is written by five people, also. I think producers want to make sure this big movie has many eyes to look over it and make it completely watertight. Unfortunately, I felt that any number of writers on Children of Men would make it any better. I just wasn't impressed.
Maybe futuristic thrillers just aren't appealing to me, but I found Children of Men almost laughably ridiculous. It deals with an interesting concept: what the world would do if women became infertile, but I just don't think it covered all the bases. Ok, so the world might not be a very happy place, schools would be obsolete, and war may break out, but it really overdramatizes violence, and seems very pretentious at times (i.e. when Kee reveals to Theo that she is pregnant does she really have to be standing in the middle of a barn surrounded by cows under a spotlight?).
The movie begins when the youngest person in the world, Baby Diego, is killed after not wanting to give an autograph (yeah, that's a great reason), but the fighting in the streets and the look of the war-torn buildings gave me the impression this fighting has been happening for years. There is not much dialogue because we're listening to gun shots most of the time, and when there is dialogue, it's painfully expositional. I had an incredibly hard time stomaching anything. Instead of adding to, I think the swear words actually take away from the strength and color of the sentences, and I got very tired of watching people run around like headless chickens.
I don't like giving bad reviews, but I wanted to share what kinds of things intelligent moviegoers don't want to see on screen: gratuitous violence, and exagerrated acting. Sorry.
Please someone post on here whether you agree with me or not.
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