I have never seen a movie so messy and so sickening at the same time. What starts off is an attack of some kind on New York that forces a group of survivors into a bunker. Right away there is a massive hole in the story - THERE IS NO WAY THE ATTACK IS NUCLEAR. First of all we open with the main character starring for about 30 second at the explosion (which doesn't even resemble a mushroom cloud). If someone looks at a nuclear blast they are blinded. This is common knowledge and most movies do this the courtesy of at least showing a bright, white flash which does happen. But no the main character looks at it like nothing.
I thought I could forgive this because the person who suggests, "it's nuclear" is shown to be the slightly paranoid owner of the bunker they flee to. I was fully expecting, "it's nuclear" to be rightly pointed out as false later on. Second of all everyone's phone still works and all the electrics of the building work. Once again, this does not happen in a nuclear attack. A nuclear detonation produces and EMP which knocks all electrics out. These are commonly known things, but it's never brought up. The movie sticks with, "it's nuclear" which is simply impossible.
The next section of the movie introduces the element of white suited special forces invading the bunker and kidnapping a child. We are never given an explanation over what this is about. We get one scene later of the child being discovered in some kind of incubation chamber and then it's never seen of again. Why? This obviously isn't what happens from a nuclear attack and I wanted the movie to explain what was going on. Was it a chemical attack? (because it wasn't nuclear) Is everyone in the bunker contaminated? Never explained. This isn't a case of, "it's left up to the audience", this is just bringing up a plot thread and then dropping it minutes later.
The writing for the characters is simply awful because there isn't any. We don't know if some of them know each other, we don't know if they're strangers. They never introduce themselves to each other and therefore we know nothing about them as an audience. I was 30 mins in before I know what everyone's name was. Then 45 mins in I finally figured out that two of them were brothers and another two were a couple.
But I could put up with this. If the movie stayed on this path, it would've been a boring mess and nothing more. But then it gets so much worse. It degrades itself into a nasty mean spirited shock fest of rape, torture and shoving it down your throat that it's "edgy".
Now first of all I am not squeamish, I can put up with gore, with stuff that pushes the limits...if there is any point to it. Even the Saw franchise attempts to have some moral themes running through it and has that factor, "How would I get out of that?" But with this we watch some awful performances of people raping and mutilating each other without any point to it. It's not saying anything about anything. It's not Battle Royale, it's not Lord of the Flies, it has nothing to offer.
But then the climax is simply baffling. After 45 mins of utter garbage the "villains" end up dead and the bunker is burning down. So our protagonist - who barely does anything for entire run time - abandons the survivors (one of which helped her defeat the bad guys and the other was her fiancé) and leaves them to burn to death while she escapes. Btw she escapes by breaking through the toilet, going into the sewer and climbing up outside.
Question 1: Why did she abandon the other two? I get there was only one suit left, but not even a discussion? Just a quick conversation: one of them is injured and the other insane, she's the best candidate for survival. Simple. But no she just leaves. Question 2: When the hell did she figure out that escape route and why didn't she tell anyone about it? There's no quick scene of her figuring it out, she continues on like she planned it. So how long did she plan it for? Why not tell the others? Was it because of the white suited guys? If so, they never show up when she gets out.
There isn't even the attempt of a twist when she does escape. She walks through the ruins, stop, we pan around and see more ruins. That's it? I've already explained how it can't have been a nuclear attack. If it was revealed to be aliens that would've been something, but no.
Utter utter garbage, one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
I thought I could forgive this because the person who suggests, "it's nuclear" is shown to be the slightly paranoid owner of the bunker they flee to. I was fully expecting, "it's nuclear" to be rightly pointed out as false later on. Second of all everyone's phone still works and all the electrics of the building work. Once again, this does not happen in a nuclear attack. A nuclear detonation produces and EMP which knocks all electrics out. These are commonly known things, but it's never brought up. The movie sticks with, "it's nuclear" which is simply impossible.
The next section of the movie introduces the element of white suited special forces invading the bunker and kidnapping a child. We are never given an explanation over what this is about. We get one scene later of the child being discovered in some kind of incubation chamber and then it's never seen of again. Why? This obviously isn't what happens from a nuclear attack and I wanted the movie to explain what was going on. Was it a chemical attack? (because it wasn't nuclear) Is everyone in the bunker contaminated? Never explained. This isn't a case of, "it's left up to the audience", this is just bringing up a plot thread and then dropping it minutes later.
The writing for the characters is simply awful because there isn't any. We don't know if some of them know each other, we don't know if they're strangers. They never introduce themselves to each other and therefore we know nothing about them as an audience. I was 30 mins in before I know what everyone's name was. Then 45 mins in I finally figured out that two of them were brothers and another two were a couple.
But I could put up with this. If the movie stayed on this path, it would've been a boring mess and nothing more. But then it gets so much worse. It degrades itself into a nasty mean spirited shock fest of rape, torture and shoving it down your throat that it's "edgy".
Now first of all I am not squeamish, I can put up with gore, with stuff that pushes the limits...if there is any point to it. Even the Saw franchise attempts to have some moral themes running through it and has that factor, "How would I get out of that?" But with this we watch some awful performances of people raping and mutilating each other without any point to it. It's not saying anything about anything. It's not Battle Royale, it's not Lord of the Flies, it has nothing to offer.
But then the climax is simply baffling. After 45 mins of utter garbage the "villains" end up dead and the bunker is burning down. So our protagonist - who barely does anything for entire run time - abandons the survivors (one of which helped her defeat the bad guys and the other was her fiancé) and leaves them to burn to death while she escapes. Btw she escapes by breaking through the toilet, going into the sewer and climbing up outside.
Question 1: Why did she abandon the other two? I get there was only one suit left, but not even a discussion? Just a quick conversation: one of them is injured and the other insane, she's the best candidate for survival. Simple. But no she just leaves. Question 2: When the hell did she figure out that escape route and why didn't she tell anyone about it? There's no quick scene of her figuring it out, she continues on like she planned it. So how long did she plan it for? Why not tell the others? Was it because of the white suited guys? If so, they never show up when she gets out.
There isn't even the attempt of a twist when she does escape. She walks through the ruins, stop, we pan around and see more ruins. That's it? I've already explained how it can't have been a nuclear attack. If it was revealed to be aliens that would've been something, but no.
Utter utter garbage, one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
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