Reviews For Jake: December 2006

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Children of Men

Last week I caught "Children of Men" with Julianne Moore, Clive Owen and Michael Caine.

It's kind of a cross between Schindler's List and Total Recall. Except Children of Men had WAY more extras than Schindler's List and no one wants to go to Mars like in Total Recall...they just want to go home.

C.O.M. takes place in 2027 where humans can no longer procreate (Wait, so no more Republican's? SHUT UP! I KNOW!) and a former activist (Clive Owen) agrees to help out the rebellion (more or less headed by Julianne Moore) by transporting something/someone that could change the world (or lack thereof) as they know it.

Michael Caine is slightly genius, Clive Owen is fine and Julianne Moore is beautiful as usual but "A" she's giving you stunt casting DOWN and "B" how she was the only one without an accent (and there were more accents in this movie than Julia Roberts had in Mary Reilly) I'll never understand.

The movie is good-ISH. I'm glad I saw it, but it's no V for Vendetta (which is what people are sort of comparing it to) V for Vendetta had me leaving the theater ready to take on the world by taking a stand in what I believe in. C.O.M. just had me leaving the theater ready to get in my car. I mean come on, the movie was only 108 minutes, but felt like 3008 minutes. It's slow most of the time while being action packed at a few points and there is one specific scene/scenes that was freakin' riveting. You could feel the entire audience watch in silence as their tears (mine included) hit the floor. If the entire film was like this particular scene, it would be the new Dancer in the Dark.

But it's not. It's more the new Passion of the Communists.