Henry's Top 100: #71- Children of Men

The most underrated movie of 2006.

Alfonso Cuarón's masterpiece, about a world in which no child has been born for 2 generations, and then Clive Owen is charged with protecting the first pregnant woman in years.

It's an excellent, mature science fiction movie. But the plot / acting is not why it is great.

This is a movie in which the direction truly separates it from the field. Cuarón, and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, created the most visceral movie ever made. The camera puts you inside the movie at all times.

This is a technically brilliant film without being arrogant about it.

If you didn't catch this movie the first time around...check it out...it's fantastic.

Best Scene? The long tracking shot towards the end of the movie. It ends with the shot shown above. You'll know it when you see it.