Children of Men really raise the bar for big British cinema. This specacular science fiction adaption of "The Children of Men" by PD James shows an impeccible film by Alfonso Cuaron.

Set in a distopian England, Clive Owen plays Theo Faron in a militarised police state, where everybody has been impotent for twenty years and European refugees attempt to escape the anarchy of the mainland by entering England. When his estranged wife (Julianne Moore, Jurassic park) reenters his life as head of the Fishes, an underground resistance fighting for the rights of every immigrant in Britain. When a pregnant woman is found by the Fishes, Theo tries to help her escape the clutches of the rebels and the government to a boat past the countries largest refugee camp.

Cuarons style in this film is ingenious. Long takes, smmoth camera movement and realtime action makes the film fel like an onsight to our future. The film touches on current issues in a half-comical sense when a definitive aura of seriousness.

The action and fighting sequences are long and well structured, and with so many extras, every starts again when the camera moves on them. This gives the impression that we are running alongside Clive as all this fighting, miracles and bloodshed are situated within ourselves being there.

And its always nice for a gun battle to stop, with Owen and Claie-Hope Ashitey walking through dozens of soldiers with a screaming baby.