Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Alfonzo Cuaron have a few things in common: both Mexican filmmakers have picked up an Academy Award for Best Picture and both awards were given to movies which delivered striking new visual styles utilising the cutting edge of motion picture technology. Before picking up an Academy Award for Gravity, Cuaron made a name for himself with the gritty and stylish science fiction thriller Children Of Men, starring Clive Owen as Theo Faron, a man tasked with protecting the last known pregnant woman on earth. Cuaron knows how to deliver the goods when it comes to action and the innovative single shot sequence during the ambush on a country road is a giddy pleasure to watch. Despite a huge shoot out in the final act as the British Army takes on a group of refugees, Theo Faron never once picks up a gun. It's a brave gambit for an action-heavy movie to take but Cuaron pulls it off effortlessly.
