Children of Men

Good science fiction stories that don't go to far into the future, and are intelligent enough to hold the interest of it's target audience, are hard to find. But here this P.D. James story is a clever and tight tale that takes a hold of your basic values shakes them to the core. Where it's set in the near future there are no over the top effects, just the occasional explosion and a lot of gun fire. From the opening scenes you can tell that this is more of a drama than a sci-fi film, but the blend of the two genres helps this story from beginning to end.
18 years after the last baby was born to the human race a young girl becomes pregnant and the race to get her to safety brings out the best and the worst in human behavior. The acting here is as tight as the story, Clive Owen, Michael Caine, and Julianne Moore give great performances that drive you to want to watch, and ultimately care about the characters. The pace of the movie is very fast but not fast enough to lose the audience with the main points of the story. Here director, Alfonso Cuaron, does a wonderful job in keeping everything within perspective and not letting things get to bogged down with conjectures about why these things happened.
Its not a far reach into the imagination to think that governments and people would act as they do in this film, most of the time we react to swiftly to situations and regret our actions later. Here the good and bad traits of the human race are display for the entire world to see and unfortunately it's not far from the truth. We react on instinct before we think and with this story we can see what happens when the entire world reacts before it thinks. This is an interesting film to watch, as the story unfolds you begin to wonder what side of the line you would stand on, and in the end were you right or wrong.