Children of Men (2006)

Synopsis: The year is 2027, and a plague of infertility has ravaged the planet for years. In England, the government is capturing and deporting all illegal immigrants, some of whom have organized themselves into an underground resistance group. This film concerns a man who is offered money to provide an immigrant woman with travel permit documents, and then to escort her to another location.
Appraisal: This is a typical genre picture, centered on action and with many instrumental secondary characters which are given some exotic or dramatic attribute and usually don't stay in the film for long. The infertility premise is scientifically improbable, and has to do more with a specific neurosis of the female gender than with anything else. Not very significant or brilliant in any sense except for the cinematography, camerawork and perhaps set and landscape designs. Shortly put, this is a B-film with A-production values which builds its narrative with some competence but is ultimately shallow. Based on a 1992 novel by P.D. James.
Rating: 46