How do you rate a film that you admired for artistic achievement accomplished and disliked for it's endlessly depressing view of the future? You may love it or hate it. It is after all showing us that we all have 20 years until the end of the world. And the way it ends, all too realistically, is in pollution, pandemics, starvation, suffering, bombings, filth and cruelty. Alfonso Cuaron feeds us this apocolyptic meal based loosely on the P.D.James novel, casting a dissolute, Clive Owen as the unwitting hero in the last country surviving, the U.K., in 2027. Its all shot in a grim grey/blue hue. The direction of Cuaron and the camera style of Emmanuel Lubezki is a terrifying visual statement attempting to warn us of our tendencies towards war. You are caught up in the story of an infertile earth where no children have been born for 18 years and a "Black Madonna" of sorts appears to have conceived a child. The woman's life is at stake and despite the bleak unexplained beacon of hope,"The Human Project", we can't imagine anything but the endless evil we're shown. It doesn't have the sleek techno look of "Gattaca" or "Clockwork Orange", It's gritty and more like a novel by Margaret Atwood or a play by Caroll Churchill. The year of 2006 is seminal for showing us disturbing visions of violence through the eyes of filmmakers worldwide "Babel", "Pan's Labyrinth", "Blood Diamond" "Last King of Scotland", "Departed", "Letters from Iwo Jima, "Flags of our Fathers", "Apocalypto" and "Children of Men" are but a few to frighten you.