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Children of Men [Blu-ray]
Children of Men [Blu-ray]
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3.5 (433 reviews)
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4Children of Men - Blu-ray Info
5A Horrifying Vision Of How The World Could End
50%The most violent yet impacting pro-life I've seen yet
5One of the great films in recent years. A must on Blu-ray!
30%Beware the two-disc special edition
21%Realistic dystopian vision, but lacks focus
10%TERRIBLE - Can't understand all these great reviews!
30%The second best way to expel a ping-pong ball
10%Horrendous
10%DO NOT READ THE BOOK!
5Fantastic!!!
10%Boring, very boring.
5Hope For The Future?
5Stop The Apocalypse, The Baby Needs Changing!...
20%Making Mush of Malthus
5Amazing...
5Dark Visions Of A Near Future
43 stars out of 4
10%TERRIBLE
4Thought Provoking Entertainment
4Perhaps a New Beginning
10%Devoid of worthy substance
20%Dull - - I walked out
5A Classic Dystopian Film. Sadly underappreciated
51%Possibly the best SF movie in a decade
41%A medieval miracle tale cast in the year 2027, with a fine performance by Clive Owen
20%"You look good. The picture the police have of you doesn't do you justice."
30%Too many plot devices
51%A TERRIFYING DYSTOPIAN VISION NOT FAR OFF
31%Dystopian Dysfunction
31%Liked the movie, loved the book
5Stunning
50%This movie is GREAT!
40%children of men
51%Do you hate "action" movies ?
10%Really slow and dreary
41%Men, don't watch when you've been away from your children!
5Face the Future
5A bleak and moving vision of the future
51%Hated it at first but now LOVE it.
41%Alfonso Cuaron gives us a dark future
10%Depressing movie...
41%The future is bleak!
50%Children of Men
10%If it's free and you're bored, watch it...
51%Children of Men in the Playground of Death
20%Need to come down?
20%My heart just bled completely dry.
50%Absolutely amazing
10%Dubious Futuristic Predictions
30%better than the book, at least.
41%Excellent! Probably the best SF film since Gattaca
50%Great movie, graphic at points but story is pretty good a lot of action as well.
10%Go straight for DVD features, and then order Adam Curtis' DVDs
20%Very Lame
10%Where have we seen this before???
50%the best movie i have seen in months...ignored by oscars...
30%Adaptation of P. D. James' Classic is Bereft of Heart., 2 Sep 2007
50%Children of Men is a 5 Star Film, Especially in HD!
50%Out of all the bad movies, a great one
40%Great British apocalyptic drama
30%Okay
41%Brave new world
21%An hour and 45 minutes wasted
51%One of the better movies I've seen in a while
51%Unlike any movie you've ever seen
10%Over 366 reviews for this loser?!?!?
40%Fascinating, until the end
51%It won't totally let you go after watching it....
20%Someone Tell Me Again Why We Want To Save Mankind?
41%A Dark, Interesting Look at the Future
50%Brilliant film
10%Great movie, but .....
50%Masterpiece
20%Not the best
40%excellent movie
50%Well done
5Amazing Thriller
51%The way we were/are/may be
50%What kind of world are we as humans?
40%timely present
41%Children of Men and Son of Man
4It Will Change You
20%Wow...not good at all
31%Something is missing
50%Awesome!! Keeps you interested and leaves you wanting more. Great SciFi/Action yet it makes you think.
20%A disappointment
41%fascinating film
51%One of the most perfect movies ever
20%not that great
10%don't, just don't.
20%So, so, so boring
30%Alfonso Cuaron's bleak vision of a future without children
51%Original & extraordinary
30%I didn't enjoy it.
20%Lame and Confused
20%An Exercise in Poor Film-Making
40%Regarding the two-sided disc itself...
41%Cautionary tale with high production values
51%Proves that hope shines forth even in the most tragic of situations...
10%Utter trash
50%A SciFi Story of Shakespearean Magnitude
40%Children of Men: Real Review
10%an incoherent mess
40%Heavy handed contemporary references marr a near-perfect thriller.
40%Children of Men is a remarkable experience
40%Futuristic take on fertility
31%Children of Men - Synopsis and Review
50%A STORY OF HOPE
31%The future looks bleak
50%a thought-provoking film
50%Great movie, something everyone should see.
41%Solid in almost every way...
4thrilling
10%The most boring movie I've ever ATTEMPTED to watch...
41%Art Imitates Life
41%Something Different
4THE POSSIBILITY OF THE HUMAN RACE ON THE EXTINCION LIST!
10%Prepare to snooze
51%AN UNIQUE CINEMATIC EXPERIENCE in HI-DEF GLORY
31%If this is what the world's going to come to ... Why are we here?
41%Excellent Movie
20%boring movie
51%Worth Watching Several Times
51%Such a great movie
51%Simply The Best!!!
20%slow, boring, waste of time
31%'Children of Men' a Dark, Deep Character & Sociological Study
30%Why the hype?
10%Turn up your hearing aid
51%Strawberry Cough
41%If you could do without the tanks and machine guns, read the book.
10%Are you serious?
51%Shunned at the Academy Awards. For Shame.
51%Best movie in a long while...
41%Original.. for a change
20%An overly praised film that does not live up to the hype
51%Absolutely brilliant
10%Terrible film, not worth seeing!
51%good movie
50%A must see for any Half-Life 2 fans out there..
50%Redemption Post Apocalypse
5 Children of Men is one of my favirote films.
10%I didn't get this movie at all
51%Unforgettable
10%Startlingly Awful Movie
41%Child of Which Man
10%Amazingly nonsense
51%Great Movie, but find out for yourself...
10%Dark Dark dark and depressing
30%Overrated
40%A Classic
20%Self-important twaddle
10%I hated this movie
51%Moving story and great HD
30%A Neverending Journey
51%One of the best movies I've seen
51%Visually and Emotionally Intense
30%good but not great
51%A breakthrough in Dystopian Sci-Fi
51%A Roller Coaster Through Battered Europe
51%intense, dark, thought-provoking
20%Poor quality film
10%What in the world did I just watch?
51%Brilliant..
41%Half-life two game come to life.
31%The Old Cliche Holds True: The Book is Better!
40%If you can wait for a little bit it's completely worth it
20%Intrigueing idea, lackluster execution
51%The Best Film of 2006
31%Decent movie
51%Fascinating on many levels
10%Slow to build and never really finished
10%Horrible
51%One of the Best in a Long Time
30%Disappointed...
10%Don't Waste Your Time
51%A movie worthy of multiple viewings
51%One of the best of 2006 easily
51%Going Global
51%Hope
30%Not THAT Good...
20%Most Overrated Movie Ever!
40%If this the Future- Wow
50%discovered something new!!!!
41%Pull my finger!
20%A glimpse at a bleak future and thats it.
41%GALLANTRY, REDEFINED.
51%A brilliant tightly told tale. Ya, you need to pay attention
51%Wow
40%Children of Men
4Clive Owen deserves to be the Next Big Thing!
31%Mostly an action film set in a childless future
51%One of my favorite movies of all time
50%A Rare Movie
4Children of Men HDDVD
5Amazing movie
51%British sci/fi is great
5Handle with Care
51%Children of Men
50%Excellent Movie
3CHILDREN OF MEN HD DVD
51%Children of Men
10%Most Disappointing FIlm of 2006
4Loved the action scenes
40%Worth Owning!
51%Excellent and beyond exact words
30%Great Movie, problems running on xbox 360
5A Thought -Provoking Must See
10%Unwatchable
41%Cause for careful consideration
40%Thought provoking
5Best film of 2006, techinical issues with the HD disc.
10%Most Overrated Movie of the Decade
21%Not fully developed!!!
5Children of Men - Movie - Excellent
50% a must see movie
50%Modern Masterpiece
50%A great movie, and a movie that makes you think
50%WOW
20%huge disappoinment
4Feels like i watched this before
31%Great acting, but plot has BIG holes.
20%Disappointed viewer
21%Hmmm..
31%Good Movie....Disturbing Premis.
51%Great Movie, but some discs have been defective..
51%HDDVD mistake
5Great movie looks and sounds as it should...
10%Dreary and just plain boring
10%Hmm... combos
51%This could really be our future!
41%Eerie imagination, brilliant movie
10%terrible
30%Great concept, poor execution
10%Good movie, LOUSY DVD
50%Last Days of Human Race
41%Provocative theme
20%Good Cinematography and big stars do not a great film make.
50%Powerful film!
41%Life is disposable, but the potential for life is revered.
40%Arresting Vision of Hope Amidst a Dystopian Future
21%Beware: this disc will not play on Toshiba hd-dvd players
21%An unsubtle, hypocritical political bludgeoning.
5Peering into the dystopia we're creating
10%Great Movie, Shoddy Playback
50%Cuaron is a Master
31%CHECK OUT THE NEAT LITTLE HOMAGE TO PINK FLOYD
10%Buyer beware: defective Universal HD-DVD discs...
40%Yes it does
10%On the HD-DVD relase
51%Wordsworth
41%A Bleak, Infertile Existence with a Touch of Hope
50%rarely will i give a movie 5 stars....
20%Not Bad, but Not Great either
21%How, why, what, huh?
30%A bit overrated
41%The Opposite of Utopia
40%Goodbye Ruby Tuesday-Hell In A Handbasket
5A smart and direct film
31%Technically brilliant, politically questionable
41%"The World Has Collapsed, Britain Soldiers On" ~ The Power Of A Child
40%Great if Played in a Home Theater
30%Movie is INCREDIBLE, HD DVD is busted.
51%Dystopian Future
10%Think of everything you don't like in a movie and that's pretty much "Children of Men"
30%Decent Action Fare with Dystopic Trappings
41%Watch the Movie, Forget the Politics, Don't Watch the Extras
3Good movie; horrible, propaganda-filled "extras"
40%watch it and hope we don't get there
51%Amazing film. Cuaron is a genius.
51%A Motion Picture No One Should Miss
50%Have a good sound system...
30%I wasn't thrilled
40%Sci-Fi adventure
20%Left-wing political tripe
10%Wanted to love it, but left scratching my head.
20%Bait and Switch
51%a very unique movie
10%PD James book is ruined by this movie
41%Cautionary tale of the future
51%Best SciFi in a long time
50%Phenomenal
51%One of the best films of the year
51%The human race is dieing. but there is hope
51%There is hope
50%Dystopia NOW! (A Different Take on Utopia)
50%i won't want to live there, will my kids?
51%Amazing Future, Amazing Film
10%lack of development
51%A haunting and overwhelming dystopian vision of the future
21%Are we watching the same movie?
20%Caveat Emptor
10%Where's the "-1" rating??
10%Stupid and Has Lousy Ending
51%let me clear a few things up
10%Utter Trash.
31%not as good as we had hoped
10%A Predictable and Bland Movie
41%Is there hope in a world where the playgrounds are silenced?
41%"C'mon, Baby Diego? The guy was a wanker." "Yeah, but he was the youngest wanker on the planet!"
31%In the words of Randy Jackson "It was aight, dawg. It was aight"
10%Waste of time
40%The Region 1 HD-DVD is the best version to get
51%Worthy of Placement in the Annals of Great Science-Fiction
10%Big Disappointment
40%Interesting, but unrelated premises. Great Action
41%Children of Men - a good EOW film
41%A Darkly Detailed Future
51%Harrowing, Haunting Masterpiece
41%Last One to Die - Please Turn Out the Light
3Weak start, strong finish
10%Charles Darwin would tear this premise apart
51%Intellegent, well-acted action movie.
41%Riveting
41%Most noteable for its brilliant camera work and REALISTIC effects
51%Chilling dystopian sci-fi, with a tart sense of humor
21%A mediocre romp through an unbelievable future
51%See this before you die (sorry for the morbid title)
50%bleak, yet uplifting....
10%Doesn't play in XBox360 HD DVD player
51%One of the best movies of 2006
41%The future without kids...
10%Children of really boring men...
30%Definitely bleak, and not for the masses
10%Turkey
30%Too Dull to Be an Action Movie and Too Shallow to Be Anything Else.
20%"Blade Runner" for the 21st Century???
20%Not worth the money
30%worth watching, though flawed
51%Powerful film
41%Bleak, but good
20%Read the book first
41%May give you chills
51%Futuristic movie well done with excellent soundtrack
30%A WORLD WITHOUT BABIES
51%One of the Most Important Films in Recent Years
50%The Director was Superb!
51%The Second Angel
51%Rooms to let, lots of them!
10%No Thanks!
51%Amazing film of a great writer's vision...
41%As real as it gets for a sci fi thriller
41%Something More
5The best movie i've seen in 5 years
30%canned social commentary
51%One of the best films of last year, period
20%Disappointing adaptation of a brilliant book
10%Children of Propaganda
30%Doesn't work right on Xbox 360 HD-DVD player
51%best movie in years
41%This should have been nominated for Best Picture
41%The end is near in the DVD's extras
51%A powerful message
40%Consequences of sterile sex.
51%Cuaron has fashioned a masterpiece: brilliant and devastating
30%Kind of drawn out!!
51%Ignore the whiny "film art-ists".
51%A bold departure for P.D. James (author) results in a stunning film
20%DISAPOINTED
51%fantastic film!
51%One for the history books.
51%Simply Astounding
41%Overheard the Young Gods Talking
5But the glimmer is there and it is real.
41%Thought provoking film!
51%The greatest, grittiest, realest, and most heart-wrenching movie I've seen all year
40%Recommended Viewing
51%Best film in quite some time
51%So you, children of today are the children of the grave!
41%It's The End Of the World As I Know It--But Maybe Not...
51%Amazing, frightening, and plausible....
5One of the best films on 2006
30%Nice to finally see cinematic originality again, but...
51%Beautiful story of hope...and much more
5More than a movie about a pregnant woman. Much, much more.
10%Not even bad...
30%Child... not Children
5Dark, Brutal, Hopeful!
51%Hope survives amidst bleakness and futility in Alfonso Cuaron's stupefying masterpiece
20%Grim violence, with only one bright moment of humanity in the whole film
51%The shape of things to come... and the best film of the year.
51%Bleak as Things Might Get, Hope Remains.
3very good but somewhat formulaic
30%Exile on Planet Earth
30%Worth Seeing. Sparks Conversation.
31%It is good but far from great
51%Amazing Film!
10%Great Book - Poor Movie - Two hours you will never get back
10%Moronic, incoherent... just plain terrible
51%Why 'Children Of Men' is destined for classic status
5Haunting, dark, thought-provoking, violent...and funny!
51%Many good things to say about the movie. Well done.
51%Children of men.
51%(for once) a movie better than the book
51%A truly HAUNTING film!!!
51%Children of Men should be seen and heard
51%great expectations
41%Dark disturbing vision of near future
10%Nothing But Glorified War-Porn! Can I Have A Refund, Please!
31%Stunning imagery, lackluster script.
41%Spectacular photography and production design, so-so script
41%This is the End
20%Horrible
51%Last One To Die, Please Turn Out The Light
51%Oustanding!
50%Powerful Sci-Fi Thriller
31%Too much blatant propaganda
40%Science fiction hits us in 2007! Dystopian film noir an ambiguous message.
10%pitifully bad propaganda film...
51%Fantastic Movie
51%mostly an outstanding action film
20%A lot of potential
51%The Year's Best Already? Certainly One of Them. . .
10%Very dissapointed in film
41%Very good movie
51%What a Great Film to Start off 2007
41%"I can't remember when I last had hope, and I can't remember when anyone else did either"
40%Not So Futuristic - Many Current Day Similarities!
10%Wasted premise ... narrow focus on modern politics instead.
50%Child of woman
50%A Amazing Piece of Art
51%4 1/2 stars; unrelenting, nightmarish, powerful
51%Precarious Balance Between Nihilism and Hope Captured with Bravado by Cuarón
41%Ultimate display of both hope & destruction
41%The Birth of a New Age
5Cautionary Masterpiece
20%i am not so sure about this movie
4(3.5 STARS) Great Visual Techniques and Very Intense Battles
51%Beyond a Film
5Like no other movie
50%33 more days!!!
50%great movie
51%Brilliant Movie!
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