After hearing so many bad things about this movie, I was kind of
expecting the worst but I must say that the movie is not nearly as bad
as some people make it out to be. Or well, perhaps it just happens to
be so that I have seen far worse stuff in my life already.
This movie still remains a failure, since it doesn't succeed at what it
attempts to achieve. Seems that the movie foremost wanted to be one
about the survival of the fittest and how the human minds works and can
change when a persons get packed together in a closed environment, in
this case a bomb shelter, after a nuclear explosion. This potential all
could had been good and interesting. It could had turned into a pretty
decent psychological thriller but problem with the movie is that it
never handles anything realistically enough. The movie is ridicules and
totally unconvincing with both its events and characters.
All of the characters are such extreme stereotypes and all do some
stupid and highly unlikely stuff. It just never feels likely that
people would truly behave like this, in case of a real similar type of
event. Every character in this movie basically does something
despicable as well, which makes all of them far from likable enough and
the only character that still works out is the Lauren German, since she
seems to be the only normal one.
Another weird aspect about the movie is that it feels like two separate
movies. The tone and story of the movie its first and second half seems
to be completely different, as if the film-makers changed their minds
halfway through the production of this movie. Every little plot line
that got buildup in its first half and everything that could had been
potentially good and interesting gets completely ignored in its second
half. And because the movie feels like two completely different
stories, the movie also tends to get and feel a bit overlong. I get fed
up with it after a while, also since the movie simply seemed to run out
of steam and new ideas after a short while already.
Nothing too exciting, tense, original or well made. It's not the worst
movie you are ever likely to see but still I just can't think of any
good reason why you should ever go watch it in the first place.
5/10
Watch trailer
No comments: