I felt empty after watching this movie. I literally felt robbed of my time. Those are 2 hours of my life wasted. I wasn't even entertained. I think the movie grabs your attention in the first 15 minutes, and then the sunk cost fallacy kicks in, and you're in it until the end. Hoping that you will be rewarded for sticking with it until the end. But you won't be.
@@henryreinders3031Its obviously an awful movie. Whats funny though. I knew the end was gonna be bad from reading the reviews. But because they played the friends theme as the last scene, it just left me happy and smiling! 😂
The same. Like, wtf we get Ethan Hawke in it. His one of my favorite actors. Is Julia Roberts so overrated she was such a Karen in this movie. Everyone sucked in this movie except Mr.Hawke I know you just did for the money and I forgive you lol. I want my two hours back too. I found myself fast forwarding through this whole movie.
@@walkerm4904nah, if any modern writer/director ruined a bunch of movies inspired by their work, that dishonor definitely goes to Joss Whedon and maybe JJ Abrams.
During the movie, I kept checking how much of it was left. At about the halfway point, I was about 50/50 to turn it off, and boy I sure wished that I had done exactly that. What a stinker.
@@annettemcdonald5633Will you stop buying into the delusion that these administrations are any different from each other? There is only one political governing system in place in America and It's owned and controlled by the haves (wealthy elite).
Things to Google for this movie: QR code and lake Shawnee amusement park Scott v sandford ( the names of the families) Fort Mose and Point Comfort (the hwy signs when they turn off to go to house) The year 1619 (the radio station in the car) White lion ship (the beached freighter)
film went over your head. The film does a fantastic job at exposing who is a sheep and who isnt. Stick to films like 2012 and moonfall. Those seem to be more on your level.
Oh Marc you are so intelligent. This film is definitely on your level. I always find that people like yourself who insult peoples intelligence or get personal when they don’t like what they say ( they spoke about the film) are the biggest indoctrinated sheep themselves. I bet this won’t go over your head though as you are SOOOOO INTELLIGENT
You gotta realize no movie creator or writer is waiting for a random civilian to give them a green flag/validation for their work. You don't like it you just move on.
I left a review for my friends on FB that read "I've taken a whole day to digest and think about, Leave The World Behind the movie on Netflix. Conclusion, it is 2 hours and 21 minutes of my life that I will NEVER get back. The movie is agonizingly slow, plodding from one useless and unbelievable point to another. I don't know which character was the worst, Julia Roberts' always angry woman or the Myha'la Herrold's overty racist character. Ethan Hawk's completely spinless character. Kevin Bacon will probably go into hiding after accepting a part in this movie and is only in the movie because the son (a total dick)... SPOILER, had his teeth "fall" out (this was a gnarly scene). Mahershala Ali who finally gets to play a good guy was the only character who wasn't totally annoying. There was no rhyme or reason, point or even a specific direction this film followed. Julia Roberts may not have damaged her career image but it sure wasn't helped by this film... screaming at deer... really. The only one who got a "happy ending" was the otherwise forgettable character, the daughter, Rosie. I would say if you have a choice between watching this movie and a root canal, hit up your dentist, now."
@paulmendez3405 lol it made for some good running commentary and complaining at the screen at least. Can't remember the last time I've seen such unlikeable characters too... Julia Roberts character was the worst!
I watched the Mark Kermode review and found myself wondering if the only reason he was praising it to Hugh Heaven was because Barack Obama produced it. I have to imagine so considering how much time he spent going on about how much more suave and refined he is compared to his successor, as if any of that has anything to do with how good the movie is...
@@confounded_felineboth of the women were incredibly annoying. If you asked me to identify which one was the useless insufferable racist, I'd tell you the correct answer is yes...
The only fun thing was to complain at the screen. They should bring back Mystery Science Theater 3000 just to do a show on this moivie, it would be a hoot!
A typical New York family (rich white people) travel to a charming country home (a mansion) far away from the city (Long Island) where they face a terrifying ordeal (no wifi). This film is about the importance of collecting physical media.
Haha. I gave all of my CDs (a couple hundred) to a friend 15 years ago after I copied them to an external drive and I regret it now. Learned my lesson, still have most of our DVDs and some Blueray discs. Kevin Bacon's character is Hollywood over the top ridiculous. So intentionally unhelpful to someone he knows well after a mere 2 days = trying too hard to create fake tension.
@@EvilMonkey7818trying too hard to create fake tension describes this entire movie. I can't imagine why when the situation itself is fertile ground for plenty of drama all on its own...
It amazes me that this has 75% on Rotten Tomatoes and 6.6 on imdb as of this posting. This was by far the worst movie I've seen in the past decade. But not "so bad that it's good" because that would be okay. Its like the bartender that would be funny and cool if she was an intentional asshole, but she's just a boring jerk who ignores you and pours weak drinks.
You need to look at the user reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, rather than the critics. Its obviously an awful movie. Whats funny though. I knew the end was gonna be bad from reading the reviews. But because they played the friends theme as the last scene, it just left me happy and smiling! 😂
I've watched this movie yesterday. In the first 20 minutes I was hoping everyone would die a painfull death. I can't recall characters more anoying than those in this f'ing movie! My partner is autistic and we believe that the girl obssessed with Friends was supposed to be autistic too. She heard the sirens before anyone else (sensory acuity) had an hyperfocused personality (Friends, dears, the ship...) and she had what we call the "Hollywood autistic stare", the only way movies know how to imply autism without saying. And she survives because of her quirks (wich is another obvious trope in those movies). Anyways, the movie was crap. As you said, it had everything we had seen before, just slower and dumber.
OK I had issue with so many things. What's the point of the shed? Why was the little girl so odd. What's up with the Spanish lady on the side of the road? Why did the mural behind the bed change? I kept seeing things that never got explained...... It drove me crazy. 12:01
Spanish lady was just saying that she had been walking forever and needed to get home, that a plane had been spraying red gas, and that she wanted to use his phone. Pretty much exactly what you’d expect from a panicked person who doesn’t speak English as a first language. There’s not much mystery behind her. Source - Can understand Spanish
Just saw this movie and immediately went looking for reviews. I completely agree with your assessment. I was waiting for some kind of resolution that never came.
I feel like everyone has missed the point of this ending. Or are choosing to ignore it. Makes me feel like this guy didn't even watch the movie and copied someone else's review. The characters aren't supposed to be likable. I feel like that's obvious and intentional. The acting was very high grade for an apocalyptic type of movie. The setting felt very immersive. Its dreadully realistic. The dialogue wasn't corny, all the writing was fantastic. It takes place within the Mr. Robot universe. Everything that's happening makes a lot of sense and how it's connected. I haven't read a criticism of this film that was valid. They are just stupid
@@DavidFinniit just felt like barley anything happened. I felt like a spent the whole 2 hours waiting for the plot to actually take off but then it just ended abruptly
@DavidFinni the main cristcism of the movie is that it lacks a resolution. The characters act beyond what can be considered normal (the daughter is 13 and still does the most retarded shit) and there are a myriad of plot points that are just forgotten. It's like if someone took the first half of a horror movie and stretches it out to 2 hours. what do the deer do? How are the involved in this? The movie is literally half finished.
the message of the whole film is consumerism has overtaken us, we care more about our phones and entertainment than the real world and the well-being of our families. At the end, we become Rose, desperate to watch the last episode instead of focusing on the outside world. Rose read the alert message saying that there radiation in the air, get to shelter. But once she seen the dvd's, she completely forgot about saving her family from exposure. It's devastating watching her sit there with a smile on her face when everyone else is dying. The director knew exactly what he was doing. Genius film.
Maybe deep down.. that message is rubbing people the wrong way. People want to ignore that thats how our culture is. That what Rose did is inside the viewer also. So many remakes and sequels these days.. I love how this movie made you think. A lot of questions with few answers, but that's what's great about it. I'm glad the rotten tomatoes score is going up at least on the critic front, at 75 now. I first saw it around 55 percent or so on there, and I was so confused. I expected much higher. The audience score however, is currently lower than some of the worst netflix originals.. maybe people don't appreciate good acting? Obviously a decent amount of people just don't get it, I didn't get the Barbie movie so each their own.@@marklawd91
What is there really to spoil? Very little actually happens because unless there's some sort of giant transport vehicle moving at high velocity toward someone or deer crowding around people, almost nothing actually happens in this movie. The moment when George and that annoying racist chick (honestly it's an accurate description of both women in this movie) show up presented some genuine suspense because nobody has any idea who each other are, but beyond that first night, there isn't really that much natural tension that isn't contrived even though the situation itself is a perfect source of drama all on its own. Most of the suspense for a huge chunk in the middle of the movie comes entirely from the music playing than from anything that's actually happening on screen. It's never a good sign when you find yourself more interested in what was going on off screen than what's happening right in front of you.
@@Tyler_Wand if Julia Roberts’ character was soooo worried about the strangers in the house possibly molesting her kids, why the hell did she sleep in until 10am and tell her daughter to go run off and play by herself!!! Incoherent!
The ship at the beginning is a Trojan horse. There are signals of this when George talks about the ‘I love you’ virus. Which was actually a Trojan horse virus.
I think that’s the point that either isn’t delivered effectively by the film or goes over the viewers heads. Nothing is happening, it’s about paranoia and how each character (and people in general) react to being suddenly cut off from media/ communication and faced with what we can assume is the collapse of American society. I just finished the movie and aside from blowing out my speakers from that F-king terrible noise, I thought it was thought provoking and eerie in a “how safe are we really?” kind of way.
Its obviously an awful movie. Whats funny though. I knew the end was gonna be bad from reading the reviews. But because they played the friends theme as the last scene, it just left me happy and smiling! 😂
Instead of the girl being obsessed with the vomit-inducing "Friends" show, it should have been "Everybody Loves Raymond." In fact, the movies should have been two minutes of this vulgar cast and then two hours of ELR reruns... at least we would have had some entertainment.
We watched it last night (and yeah it was horrible. in the end we said: "The Happening did this better."); but the point i came on to make was that when we say the "Act 2" card, we went... "huh? what was act one? Was there a title to it?" For some movies like Kill Bill, it made sense. But for this, it just let us know that 1. how far in to the movie we were, and 2. that this was probably supposed to be a tv series and not a movie.
In elementary school writing we learn “show not tell”, which means your story should show what it intends to be about through action, dialogue, setting, etc, instead of explicitly saying it. This movie clearly didn’t get the memo that your viewer should be able to take away the theme and lesson without a main character having to wrap it all up in the end with “information he knew about but didn’t want to share in case he was wrong”. There was nothing deep about this movie. It was incredibly surface level in every single way. It is infuriating that this is considered top-notch these days. The public deserves better.
I’ve seen a lot of comments talking about how “deep” this movie is and how it “really makes you think” so it’s very sobering to see others with the same opinion. I didn’t find any depth at all in the film. It’s disappointing since the premise of the movie leaves room for so much to work with but the execution was awful. The deep topics people bring up are extremely basic like how it shows everyone is too reliant on technology. Okay? What other movies are people watching if this is the bar for a thought provoking movie? It’s absurd.
The people claiming that the movie is "deep" are just outing themselves as shallow and ignorant (or they're lying for some reason). The concept would have been better as a series but the unlikeable characters make that basically impossible.
yeah it was an interesting choice to make every single character borderline unwatchable. I think a series could have been better but the topics were far too broad sweeping to sum up in a movie. @@HunterSThompson123
Just listen to the dialogue in the opening scene. Julia Roberts couldn't give more of an info dump if she tried. I felt that between it and the credits running and ridiculous camera work I should turn it off in the first 20. Definitely should've
Bruh... I liked the "idea" of the movie, but the execution of the film was terrible. They dont need to explain everything every 5 minutes of dialogue, its so sad. Waiting for a spoiler rant review!
I hate movies with these types of endings. "Let the viewer decide the ending in their own minds" WTF! Shouldn't I have to join SAG before writing the end to this movie?!?!? Seriously!
I watched this with my girlfriend and her roommate and there was an audible groan from all three of us at the end. It’s the type of movie that keeps you invested but leaves no satisfaction.
Well that’s the point, your so focused on your fix of getting a satisfying ending(the girl wanted to just finish the last season of friends the whole time everything is happening) that you don’t see the collapse of everything around you, also another play on the whole friends thing is the song, trying to tell us that if the world did collapse we would have to rely on each other. But the whole movie just shows distrust between the characters Everything is symbolic in this movie, and it for sure went over all 3 o y’all heads. And if you can’t correlate these to real life I think you need to pay attention to what happens in the world more and in movies😂
@@connorhouston2628I keep seeing people like you dismiss criticism by saying the movie “went over someone’s head,” I promise it didn’t and it isn’t as deep as you think it is. The characters were suspicious but ultimately very trusting of each other. This movie is not very good please watch more movies and the criticism people have clearly goes over YOUR head. The exposition and line delivery is immensely horrible. The shot composition tries way too hard to be innovative to the point all of the scenes are shot so similarly and with the lame zoom/ panning nonsense repeatedly. The writing is fairly poor, there is very little suspense because not much happens and every time something does it leads to something mundane and anti climactic. This movie is just boring conversation after boring conversation and ultimately builds to absolutely nothing despite what little profundity can be extracted tbh
@Sluglove sorry but the film did indeed go over your head. The film does a fantastic job at exposing who is a sheep and who isn't. Very important film about how we prioritse entertainment instead of reality and how we ignore nature when its trying to tell us something. The director knew exactly what he was doing with the ending. Are you a sheep (rose) or not (Someone that isn't obsessed with phones and TV shows and video games). genius ending.
‘The animals are trying to warn us’ okay how? The radiation was already setting in. What would following the deer do?? 😂 my gf said the same thing you did about the acts and my exact answer was Tarantino is the only one who does it right. Great actors cannot carry a bad movie anymore. I’m tired of movies having such build up to absolutely nothing. It’s a trend going on. And the director had a few good shots but his fading in and out and twirling was annoying. Also why is there a random shed in the back of the house that doesn’t seem to be owned by G.H. that some squatter has been in. What was the point of that plot point?? Bacon should’ve had a bunker, not just chilling in his house lol
I thought this movie was excellent. It opened up the idea of internal fractures and how they can manifest as external issues. There were no ghosts or monsters, the fear was human.
Trust, you guys aren't wrong in your creeping suspicion. Most people who disliked this film really just needed an enema, direct injection, IV drip, espresso, turbo shot of action film or romance drama/comedy so they don't have to be threatened with thinking before they go to bed, absolute troglodytes.
Yeah the ending a lazy shame and especially w all the talent involved so surprised they couldn’t join forces to ensure a great ending to what I thought was a good story concept.
Comment section confirms that people watch movies these days waiting for the end credits and a huge payoff. It's weird how people can't be left alone to do any actual thinking, but have to be given answers on a silver platter so they can hop on to the flick to keep the dopamine flowing.
@@hapotus410 If you're building up a mystery-box you have to give answers to the questions you raised at some point. What they did wasn't even an ending it was just a cut and done. Claiming that an "ending" like that leads to "actual thinking" is just a lazy excuse since the topics are way too basic to inspire discussion. It's bad writing no matter how much you belittle the people that don't like it.
I can not get my head arounf how many people do not like this movie! Its the best film ive seen in so long! I thought it was original and super suspenseful, it had me gripped all the way though! I think you have to have a good attention span and have knowledge about whats happening in the world (things we dont see) and i think you have to know about subliminal messages to "get it"
I should have learned my lesson with Squid Game or Bird Box. When Netflix puts out a propaganda movie that trends #1, and has everyone talking it usually is TRASH. This was no different.
100% agree with you. This movie is SO lame and pointless. And now, there is a bunch of edgy Tiktokers saying “If you did not like it it’s cuz u did not understand it” lmao 🤣
Similar thing happened to me. The Mrs. put this one on. We fast forwarded the last 20 minutes we just couldn’t get through this boring bad bad movie. I also feel like it ended right when it could be interesting.
Its because your "Mrs" likes Julia Roberts, and maybe hunky E. Hawke, and scrolls through social media, and follows INFLUENCERS. I bet you guys sat down to watch "Barbie" together too. After all, it's by Gerwig who is so talented, right? No fiendish nepotism and celebration because she's a woman. Dude, chances are, if it's recommended by a typical American woman, it's going to be typically bad. And bad for all the same usual reasons.
I didn’t catch racists vibes at all from Julia Robert’s. I caught racist vibes from G.H.’s daughter, who said in a scene; “I don’t like them because their white.” I was a tad dumbfounded they actually put that in the script.
The racism was not subtle, even when it was couched in metaphor; and it sure wasn't against blacks. The plot was meandering and silly (apparently pilots and captains can't operate ships and planes without computers - and animals tell us to run for our lives without doing so themselves - in this mess of a film), and one is left with the creepy feeling that certain elites would love to execute this sort of terrorist act because "humans are bad".
I didn't mind the ending, but it was the process of reaching there! The story development was boring and tedious, there was some cool scenes and plots but then it went nowhere! What a waste of time.
I wish I hadn’t wasted my time watching it. The ending was just so disappointing and bad. Imagine you’re watching a film and you’re just getting into it and waiting for what’s just about to happen when adverts come on and you have to wait till the adverts stop, accept there are no adverts it’s the end of the film that’s how bad.
Maybe call it "Karen Versus the Apocalypse." Seemed a satire about white privilege, and at times came close to breaking the fourth wall. Kept waiting for one of the characters to wink at the camera. And then it would go back to being a "serious" movie. Pick a lane, please. I mostly agree with your review. I was barely holding on, kept thinking to turn it off, but hung in there.
Absolute drivel. My wife had to tell me to stfu because I was scoffing at the ridiculous plot devices, the daft storyline, and the shitty characters. A great story idea wasted by “oooo look how clever I am” direction!
I get movies nowadays are suppose to keep us on edge and make it suspenseful, but I never felt that in movies, either give us answers or give us an ending we can live with, not America falling and some girl watching Friends, it feels like the producers just went "We like friends, so we'll make a character that's obsessed with it and convince people to watch the show.... oh and there's a cyberattack"
After watching the whole movie it felt as if I only watched a half of a movie. Talk about major failure of bringing conclusion to a storyline. I would have been at least more satisfied even if it had a bad ending, but this had no ending at all.
Great review. Most exciting build up of this movie were the Julia Roberts interviews where she listed three things sbe wouldn't do that she did when she was younger. One was not plucking her eyebrows. I think that level of suspense must carry over to the film and is reflected in your review. Did you like August: Osage County with Julia Roberts? Thanks Adam!
This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. The message is awful, liberal, and depressing. The characters are all brain dead besides kevin bacon’s character. The ending is awful.
Yea it's not our most viewed service either. Lately there's been a few decent things on there, and they always have good stand up comedy. I probably watch Hulu and Amazon Prime the most.
They used the same trick THREE TIMES with a large vehicle ominously approaching from the distance. It was cool the first time with the ship, the drone was kind of cool with the gas attack fakeout, but I noticed it was the same idea as the ship. When they did it with the airplane I literally just laughed. I thought for a moment when he saw the existing wreckage of the plane on the beach then heard the plane sound from above but it wasn't shown, the shock of realizing that meant his wife was almost certainly dead was going to make him have some kind of auditory hallucination, running back to the car only to look up and see it was nothing. But no, they just used the same trick for a third time. So stupid.
Thankyou! I'm baffled by all the good reviews. This just seemed like a crappy M Night Shyamalan co-production with Bad Robot. It was a mystery box with nothing inside it and reminded me a lot of The Happening.
Thank you for validating my thoughts. I was so frustrated, I felt like I did not get it. It's like Netflix asked an AI to write a script not too good, not too bad, but just enough to keep people watching for 2+ hours, or just to see the train wreck. If it wasn't for Julia Roberts I would have stopped the movie after 10 minutes. When I saw her looking at the camera, I immediately lowered my expectations, just maybe I can enjoy this. I was just stupid. The stupid deer had no point. People flirting weirdly just to run the clock. Making stupid promises, not watching over their own kids just so that stupid things can happen. Even Kevin Bacon, being a prepper, and after a lot of stupid dialog and time consuming tension, he just takes the money! What is he going to do with money? After the movie ended I had to watch the first episode of The Last of Us just to forget about this bad movie.
Things to Google for this movie: QR code and lake Shawnee amusement park Scott v sandford ( the names of the families) Fort Mose and Point Comfort (the hwy signs when they turn off to go to house) The year 1619 (the radio station in the car) White lion ship (the beached freighter) They live next to the Huxley's referring to Aldos Huxley At the end Rose finds safety in the house of the Thorns Tons of Easter eggs and symbolism in this movie. It might make it more interesting for you.
I rage quit the movie at around 9 minutes into it. Just couldn’t take it anymore. If I had watched it longer, I think I would have gotten a seizure. It was so so so terrible. Can’t believe Netflix makes garbage like this. 🤮
I quit an hour in, but that's only because I started doing other things at around the 40 minute mark and stopped paying attention. The writing and acting was bad, nobody seemed like real people, and I hated them all. The cinematography was good, but that's kind of a dime a dozen, these days. The "parts" thing is incredibly pretentious and most people aren't talented enough to get away with that.
My relative insisted i watch the movie and boy Adam. I put in WORK to finish it. The pacing was so inconsistent... It was nauseating. After so much time put into it too, there was NO payoff!!
The style of the movie reminds me a bit of an even bigger stinker - 'Don't Look Up' which was the most cringe attempt at satire in film history. Though this isn't nearly as awful as that meandering film it is boring and the only likeable characters are the two fathers. The two adult women are both paranoid, racist bitches whose only real purpose in the movie is to heighten interpersonal tension for everyone, since the world ending/attack plot is lacking in potency.
I agree that this wasn't good. I was the film equivalent of blue balls. I almost turned it off several times, and then they'd dangle an inkling of an interesting concept...and then it wouldn't pay off. A guy at work was all about this film, but nothing happens. I can't tell whether they think people are gonna clamour for a sequel or something, but what a lousy movie. You know what this reminded me of? Shyamalan's "The Happening" I will say, though, that I thought Tesla gave them some ad money at one point. But I'm fairly confident that's not the kind of ad they were hoping for.
"That movie and people who like it suck?" Personal attacks, eh? PSA, it's still illegal and immoral to [REDACTED] children. So.... keep it in your pants.
What I couldn’t get over is what abysmal parents they were! Of course the daughter wants her show. She’s scared and craving normalcy. She wants to get lost in a false world since the real world is so scary. They didn’t know the son’s girlfriend’s name. The kids didn’t communicate when they were going to swim, or leave the yard and explore. No matter what their age, they’re not in a familiar area, and needed to communicate. There was just no relationship there. It was hard to watch for a lot of reasons. That’s just my top one.
Movie is horrible. Makes no sense. So technology fails and the world fall apart in a couple of days? Might I remind whoever wrote this that there are someone us alive when there were no cell phones, No GPS (I went to flight school in the 80s and the best we had were VOR stations). No G1000 displays, all steam gauges. Low end planes did not have auto pilots. Cars were all old school, no fancy electronics, distributor cap no on board computer. My Suzuki Samurai didn't come with a radio. I had to install one after market. I remember using something called a map for land navigation in the military and my wife always had the map and was the navigator. TV was analog with rabbit ears, no cable and we had NBC, CBS, ABC, WOR, WPIX and PBS (NYC). AM/FM analog radio of the air. No VHS, DVD. Everything was hard wired, no digital switching and nothing was connect to one another. TV were Black and white and worked on tubes. Then U turned them on they took a little while to heat up and come on. In college I used a manual typewriter to do my papers. No word processors. Research was done by going to the library and check out a thing called a book. My point is we lived in the 60s and 70s without the technology we have today and still went about or daily lives. It is so stupid to think that in a few decades we have become so dependent on technology that if it failed the would would instantly fall apart. And FYI, even on newer fancy airplanes with all the G1000 modern glass cockpits, U still have old traditional steam gauges as backup in a emergence. If my autopilot started to misbehave, I would simple pull the mechanical circuit breaker and shutdown the autopilot or any other computer system. If U want a movie on what happens on an aircraft when the world goes to crap, I highly recommend Apollo 13 with Tom Hanks. A 100% better movie and a true story. Kevin Bacon is in that one also. Don't waste ur time with Leave the Wold Behind. A waste of some very talented actors. I am a fan of all of them. Only reason I tuned in.
It's not just that technology is failing, it's that it's actively being used against us. Everything is run by technology and is vulnerable to cyber attack on a grand scale. Humans are already entirely dependent on technology and power. If I lose power, I don't even have running water. It's game over if it happens to an entire country at the same time.
I laughed so much during this movie. I almost feel bad for Julia Roberts, and I’m very concerned about the Obamas’ judgment. Insipid script. No subtleties or nuance. The only tension comes from the music. Nothing (NOTHING) at stake.
This was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. Indescribably bad. It felt like a parody half the time, super dramatic music while nothing happens. There’s never been a more uneventful 2 and a half hour movie. What a waste of time.
I thought it might be interesting so I started it, but soon started wishing it would be over soon. I liked some of the photography; the upside down, sideways pans were probably the best parts. I really had to force myself to watch the whole thing, and I did make it to the end. But without any sense of satisfaction. Time spent watching a bad movie is not the same as time lost. It makes us appreciate more; the good movies. The final explanation was very shallow and way too speculative. The characters were not true even to themselves. Each person had a potential, but none were fully realized. The story elements left a lot of holes and open ends. Two big thumbs down.
There was a part where Julia Roberts walks up some stairs and down a hall that I watched several times. I still can't really figure out that shot unless there was a lot of CGI trickery in it.
I just "watched" it. I put it in quotes because at the 1:10 point I started scanning through the dialogue scenes. I didn't like a single character in the film, and the Julia Roberts character was the worst. These people may have been following a script, but they were not communicating like real human beings. And the Roberts' character's ongoing mistrust of the homeowners was laughable. And her husband was a waste of space.
Best scene for me was when people were chilling around the pool and a big passenger airplane crashed into the neighbors house. but nobody heard or felt anything :D:D
The whole animal thing just spoiled everything. Why were the deer staring at the humans; why did the flamingos fly into the pool? Total disconnect turning the dystopian presentation into something phony and completely unbelievable.
Is this movie actually a cancelled series? Because that's the impression I get from it being divided into parts 1-5. It had good buildup, but no payoff/conclusion.
I paused it almost halfway through and got some wine. An hour and a few quick glasses later I watched the second half. More proof that we often make poor decisions while drinking. Sitting on the porch watching traffic go by would have been a better use of time.
The point of the deer? If it’s just the migration thing is weak. They hinted that there was a deer leader who steps in the front of the group. No depth to this movie
After the end, I looked for a place to rant and warn others. This movie reminded me of M Night Shamalan and suspenseful and kept expecting something, BUT NOTHING HAPPENS ITS RIDICULOUS. Also, they had to make sure to say some woke crap, "YOU CANT TRUST WHITE PEOPLE." Why throw that in your crappy movie? The ending was literally the daughter getting to see the last episode of Friends.
Very lazy ending and this movie didn’t need to be over 2 hours if they weren’t going to explain anything at all, And we already seen a better version of this movie this year with a Knock at the Cabin that was done in 1 hour 40 minutes not 2 hours and 20 minutes
This movie is the discarded first draft of M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening. Dull, uninteresting and a huge waste of talented actors and my goddamn time.
Worst movie I’ve seen in a while. I wished had watched this review before I saw this and saved myself 2 hours. I enjoyed Alas, Babylon novel from 1959 more.
