This is by far the best movie I have seen all year. Okay so that is a little cheap. I've technically seen only three movies in this year (2007). This one definitely makes my top ten of movies released in 2006. Alfonso Cuaron does an amazing job behind the camera creating a tight well done action thriller. And the main character never picks up a gun once.
The film picks up in the year 2027, 18 years after humans stopped being able to reproduce. The youngest person on the planet has just died and things all over the world have gone to hell pretty much. A fascist government in Britain is doing its best to curb the violence and is going about it in a very typical fear mongering way.
Theo (Clive Owen) is our main character a stolid, perhaps alcoholic man who has essentially given up on humanity. He is enlisted by his ex wife to help get an unexpectedly pregnant girl to something called the Human Project. The film follows his adventures to get the girl to her destination. There is plenty of action and intrigue for the film and it never gets tedious or boring.
There are some excellent performances from quality actors. Michael Caine's performance is of particular skill and craft. Owen is excellent as always as well. This movie has a brutal use of violence but it never seems gratuitous. It always makes sense and never pulled me out of the movie.
It amazes me that in essence this movie has a similar dystopic not so distant future that the movie V for Vendetta (2005) had and yet that movie was horrible and this movie works. The atmosphere of this movie was amazing. Some of the throw away stuff like propaganda messages on the trains or graffiti on walls was so well placed. You believe that this all could actually happen.
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