How It Ends is an apocalyptic film that builds up tension well but never pays off. Many seem outraged by the ending and I have to admit it's one of the most WTF endings I've seen in a long time.
Forest Whitaker is fantastic as always and he is great as the mentor father figure. Theo James I found to play a bland protagonist with nothing much to him except he's desperate to find his girlfriend. The other characters come and go and not in a satisfying way. Grace Dove plays one of the more memorable side characters who adds some comedy into the film and then she just leaves.
It's a shame because the movie looks great visually and its competently enough directed, it's just the script that's really at fault. I've seen some surprisingly good straight to Netflix movies such as Bright, The Babysitter and the masterful Annihilation. Although there's some others which have potential but the scripts are just awful such as Mute, The Cloverfield Paradox and How it Ends.
How It Ends is wasted potential that needed a better script to be a more satisfying experience.
Forest Whitaker is fantastic as always and he is great as the mentor father figure. Theo James I found to play a bland protagonist with nothing much to him except he's desperate to find his girlfriend. The other characters come and go and not in a satisfying way. Grace Dove plays one of the more memorable side characters who adds some comedy into the film and then she just leaves.
It's a shame because the movie looks great visually and its competently enough directed, it's just the script that's really at fault. I've seen some surprisingly good straight to Netflix movies such as Bright, The Babysitter and the masterful Annihilation. Although there's some others which have potential but the scripts are just awful such as Mute, The Cloverfield Paradox and How it Ends.
How It Ends is wasted potential that needed a better script to be a more satisfying experience.