Как это заканчивается how it ends

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Even if one WERE to end it open-ended, there must be a half dozen more effective ways to do it for the big Twilight Zone moment.

At the beginning it was your average disaster/apocalypse film, something goes horribly wrong, government either can’t handle it or won’t, characters take problems into their own hands. All is well for a while, special effects are fine, acting is fine, but just like in the story, something goes terribly wrong. Much like that other Netflix film that was atrocious, the «horror» film about home invasion, it appears that the creators of the film either couldn’t decide on an ending, or just threw their hands up and said «screw it, I don’t know how to end it, lets just pretend to be ambiguous». And its not to say films with an ambiguous end aren’t always bad, but this one didn’t even bother to create an ending.

As a Californian, we hold the stories dear, stories of earthquakes or other disasters ending civilized society. And for a while I was enjoying it, but somewhere around 2/3rds or half way through it, I just completely lost interest and was also disappointed in its execution. Without giving too much away, many decision made about how to execute certain parts of the film left me bamboozled, not the way I would have. All in all its good for a little while but ends up leaving you unfulfilled, so a warning, maybe just watch the first half, and don’t worry, if you want to know what happens at the end, let me tell you, nothing.

The biggest issue I had was: They find an abandoned crashed military train full to the brim with vehicles, fuel, likely weapons, food and equipment. They are a military veteran and a young man. Instead of grabbing a humvee and loading it for bear, they get back into their broken ass car to continue on their way. Who in their right mind would do such a thing? An armoured 4WD full of fuel and supplies that can go anywhere, or a broken ass car with some extra gas that has to stick to main roads. Hmmm, tough choice.

First of all, why does this clock in at 1:52? That’s just too long for a standard thriller, and this is especially true for a movie with such a lousy story.

There is nothing good in this movie. Nothing at all.

Why would the convict in the cop car be so determined to track down one car?

Just getting there takes WAY too much film time.

Ricki Whatever was such a terrible character played by a worse actor.

Has anyone involved in making this movie ever seen a movie before?

I was really enjoying the story. And then something happened. I’m not sure what it was but I pin it pretty much to the point when Tom dies. Tom was played by Forest Whitaker. I’ve always liked Whitaker, although never really thought of him as someone who could carry a movie. But it all fell apart when his character died. I honestly didn’t feel that any of the rest of the cast had truly stood out, but this had been mysterious and interesting and even at times exciting, but with the death of Tom it descended to just plain silly. And it kept getting worse. Right up to that ending that wasn’t an ending. That ending that explained absolutely nothing. That ending that wasn’t intelligent or thought-provoking but that honestly just seemed truly lazy on the part of everyone involved with this.

I mean really, the ending was so HILARIOUS. It was like they were in the middle of filming, then the director said «cut» and forgot to go back to work.

I don’t mind they’re not telling us how and why this apocalypse happened, I really don’t, sometimes it’s good not to know all the details and just guess. But, man, they could have wrapped up the story somehow.

Also, the storyline is quite repetitive, nothing extremely exciting happens, and in the last 20 minutes are a bit off.

It’s the end of the world as we know it! Or is it? We don’t know, this movie can’t be bothered to tell us.

After some kind of unexplained catastrophic event happens on on the west coast of the US, Will (Theo James) and his girlfriend’s obnoxious father (Forest Whitaker) commence a road trip from Chicago to Seattle to save her (Kat Graham). It appears that the disaster has also ended electricity supplies across the entire country.

Most of the people they do meet are gun-toting hillbilliess or (maybe) escaped prisoners all intent on killing them and stealing their car.

Most of the trip seems to happen in the dark with loud ambient music covering up the limited dialog. When the sun does rise we are treated to a highlight reel of some of the US’s most beautiful landscapes, suddenly devoid of people. I wonder who is lighting all the roadside fires they keep driving past.

In summary. The film is mostly too dark to see anything, the characters learn nothing and show a deplorable lack of curiosity about the world, and then the film just stops. Dull.

Incredibly amateur drivel that’s half filmed in almost total darkness. Some decent actors are wasted by writers who’ve clearly wrote the characters in 10 minutes flat for a paycheck.

Tough ex-marine father in law? (Who is really a big softie of course) Check. Devoted husband type? Check. Helpless wife? Check. Everyone else a lunatic nutjob? Check.

Seriously, within 2 days of the «event», 90% of the US population descend into mad max territory and start killing everyone else for no particular reason. Give the Americans some credit, that would take 2 weeks at least.

And then the abrupt non ending; its not clever, it’s not mysterious, it’s just plain lazy and immensely annoying. You can just see the crew going, «sod it lets go to the pub» and downing tools. Total insult of a film.