Dir: Alfonso Cuaron
Stars: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, et al...
Plot: It's the year 2027, women have become infertile and no new babies have been born. The world as it is has gone backwards rather than forwards. In the midst of it all, a pregnant woman emerges with what could the first child in 18 years. A office worker, persuaded by his revolutionist ex-wife, must help her get safely across war-torn England, at the same time avoiding the authorities and the revolutionist themselves.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
The one of the phrases in the movie was, 'the future is a thing of the past'. And it is very befitting of the setting of the movie. It's 2027, but you could argue it was as if it was 1970s again. The streets are dark, crime is committed everywhere, only the minor subtleties in technologies will ever make you think otherwise. And in creating such a dark and gloomy atmosphere, Cuaron has succeeded. Indeed it's a very dark film, dark in the sense that, you won't be leaving the cinema with a smile on your face.
There is however, real emotion in this movie. The urgency, and the desire, once you get obsorved in the film, it actually quite a film. It is great then, that this too has an outstanding cast, lead by Clive Owen. Some of the main players die out (fairly quickly as well), but that only adds to bleakness of the situation, it's almost like a 'wtf' moment, where you just wonder which direction this movie is headed.
It comes to a very dramatic and emotional climax. Be warned, whilst it's a great, well made movie. It's not an uplifting movie by any stretches of the imagination.
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