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Children of Men is a tour de force of an experience that's wrought with tension from the get-go. Every sequence, whether full of action or not, ratchets up the atmosphere to eleven. A technical marvel and achievement for single-camera framing, Children of Men places you firmly at the heart of the action with gripping tracking sequences and single takes that put your view right in step with lead Clive Owen or the revolutionaries who kidnap him.

With mass hysteria over the sudden inexplicable infertility of women and the descent of Britain into a country not too dissimilar from a totalitarian state that teeters on the brink and then collapses firmly into a revolution, it's safe to say the film isn't exactly set on promising ground. Children of Men is so brilliant precisely because it uses this nmotivation to tell a heartfelt tale.

Children of Men is many emotions all at once: hopeful, depressing, beautiful, ugly. It tries to tell us an awful lot about humanity and about our culture, all the while telling a moving story about perseverance and not giving up hope in an environment that tells every one of its characters to pretty much do just that.