I was surprised by the low rating and bad reviews I read about this movie. How is it possible that a film that is original, tense, very well played by all the actors involved (all are doing really well, but
Julia Roberts nailed it), with a good storytelling and filming, even a nice music, original credits and so on, collected so many bad reviews?
I think that people, accustomed to the regular apocalyptic blockbusters, haven't watched it under the right perspective.
Folks, the ending is perfect, the plot holes are not holes, are just what should be, and the movie shows just what they want to show. After watching it, I felt myself kind of scared and with a bitter feeling, because it is showing exactly, and it is one of the points of the story, how fragile and dependent we are of the technology.
It is just the story of the end of the world as we know it from the perspective of a group of completely normal people: no information, confusion, tension, waiting, hope... and the realization that the world just changed irreversibly. I think it is a very smart movie, showing the beginning of the end of the society, but neither because extraterrestrial causes, nor it falls on the easy climate-environmental stuff. It shows how the world ended for a couple of families in a really scary and realistic way: by the beginning of a big scale war using the newest modern warfare, in the last place a common american family could imagine a war would begin. As one of the characters said "I cannot barely take a step without my cellphone and gps". Suddenly, all our daily gadgets are garbage, there are no state, security and law enforcement anymore, and we are totally alone.
Of course there are some weird things. I still do not understand the thing with animals, specially with the deers. That kind of supernatural thing, I do not know if it is conceived as a trick to deceive the viewers, who are just as confused and clueless as the main characters (and it is one of the points: you know exactly the same as the characters during all the movie).
Also, the scene with the tanker, although very impressive, it is quite unrealistic: a tanker of that size would have run aground way before to reach the beach.
Anyways, this movie worth a watch, definitely, and could spark an interesting conversation about what we would do in that situation and what would happen if suddenly all internet, cellphones and communications fell. It is really scary.
I think that people, accustomed to the regular apocalyptic blockbusters, haven't watched it under the right perspective.
Folks, the ending is perfect, the plot holes are not holes, are just what should be, and the movie shows just what they want to show. After watching it, I felt myself kind of scared and with a bitter feeling, because it is showing exactly, and it is one of the points of the story, how fragile and dependent we are of the technology.
It is just the story of the end of the world as we know it from the perspective of a group of completely normal people: no information, confusion, tension, waiting, hope... and the realization that the world just changed irreversibly. I think it is a very smart movie, showing the beginning of the end of the society, but neither because extraterrestrial causes, nor it falls on the easy climate-environmental stuff. It shows how the world ended for a couple of families in a really scary and realistic way: by the beginning of a big scale war using the newest modern warfare, in the last place a common american family could imagine a war would begin. As one of the characters said "I cannot barely take a step without my cellphone and gps". Suddenly, all our daily gadgets are garbage, there are no state, security and law enforcement anymore, and we are totally alone.
Of course there are some weird things. I still do not understand the thing with animals, specially with the deers. That kind of supernatural thing, I do not know if it is conceived as a trick to deceive the viewers, who are just as confused and clueless as the main characters (and it is one of the points: you know exactly the same as the characters during all the movie).
Also, the scene with the tanker, although very impressive, it is quite unrealistic: a tanker of that size would have run aground way before to reach the beach.
Anyways, this movie worth a watch, definitely, and could spark an interesting conversation about what we would do in that situation and what would happen if suddenly all internet, cellphones and communications fell. It is really scary.