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Futooomsh · Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Location: Seoul

Great movie...just watched it...although slightly disappointed with the ending, as someone mentioned before, I too was left wanting more.

LOVE LOVE LOVE Clive Owen!

ChopChaeJoe · Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Location: Seoul

Decent movie -- 3 stars. I don't think it really explored the true milieu of a world without children, more like just another dystopian future. Killing off michael caine was a drag. In every dramatic movie of this sort the likable side-character has to be killed off? The ending was frigid and brittle. Still, a sad and hopeful movie.

contrarian · Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Location: Nearly in NK

I hate movies with a message and I much prefer escapist trash. Thanks for the heads up. I'll skip this one.

KOREAN_MAN · Joined: 01 Oct 2006

Your post made me think of 'Little Children' which I saw last week. The story is quite different than Children of Men, I suppose, but it's a good movie too. (I call it "the better version of American Beauty.") The movie revolves around middle-class, soon to be middle-aged American couples. It feels somewhat similar to 'Lost in Translation' in that marriage is portrayed as not all good and dandy. Many characters with depth, a few humorous scenes, and Kate Winslet! Very Happy

VanIslander · Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:26 pm Post subject:

You can get the DVD in Itaewon for 5000 won.

I got a copy if anyone wants.

It's not bad, has some first rate war-on-the-streets scenes with some original movements.

Overall a solid B. B+ at best.

sillywilly · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Canada.

I really liked the movie. It's nice to see a film where they don't feel the need to explain everything for the sake of realism/grit ( like Batman Begins). It was kind of like Star Wars, in that you have this fully developed world that you just take for granted and mostly don't understand and a good story set against it. It kind of was escapist in that respect, without being mindless.