Short DVD Reviews

Short DVD Reviews

(For me these are essentially just short reviews with a tiny bit about the special features but i've been watching a lot of films on DVD recently and felt i needed to do some)

Children Of Men


Children Of Men is a film which poses the question 'what if every person on the planet became infertile?'. Starring Clive Owen as the films protagonist, Theo, a man who simply lives among all the threats and worry of the country since everyone became infertile. It shows his journey with Kee (Claire-Hope Ashitey) who is the last pregnant woman on the planet, he must to deliver he to a ship in which the problem of the worlds infertility is being investigated.

Children Of Men is a very graphic and realistic vision of the world in a time of trouble and conflict this is exceptionally shown through the camera work in many scenes and the fact that this film will add anything into the background that they feel needs to be in there eg. extra's.
The film almost comes to an end with a very long though thrilling scene of Theo running through a battlefield protecting himself so he can reach Kee, this is extraordinary that a scene such as this could incorportate so many things to make it as realistic as possible from building explosions to tanks appearing and people being shot all whilst Theo runs through this orgy of risky destruction. This scene is the pinacle of the entire film because it perfectly signifies peoples reaction to fear and what it's like to be stuck in between a country and government gone mad.

Clive Owen's performance isn't very memorable, neither are many performances in this film seeing as Michael Caine plays a lesser character it's hard to base the films acting expertise fully around him, though he does a good performance. Though Clive Owen portrays quite accurately the feelings of a man in his situation and seems very realistic he can come across as slightly wooden luckily this does not alter the feel of the film much and it is still a highly thrilling film.

The DVD extra's are okay, nothing to complain about, they're what you'd expect from a DVD, there are a few deleted scenes which wouldn't add anything at all to the overall film and some documentary's on making the film which are fairly interesting seeing as it seemed a very laborous and precise film to shoot.


Children Of Men draws it's strengths from being extraordinarily realistic and being extremely accurate at posing a 'What If' question and explaining it without going into any levels of ridicule. It will excite, interest and shoot nerves high.

Rating: ****

Extra's: ***
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