Heard good things about it and wanted to like it. Starts off OK. Good and bad people exist which obviously they do even in a non post apocalyptic world. I like how people's evil and good adapted for survival. Not much happens though after that. You're basically either a cannibal or you're not and the cannibals happens to be kind of cliche redneck type. Psychological characterisation is replaced by hollywood dialogue likes fires in bellies and.... praying? Give over. Encounters seem more filler than meaningful and sometimes pointless. How was the old man not already dead? How did all these people survive anyway? Also, turn up the volume because it's that whisper acting to drain you even more. The people locked up in the cellar look purposely zombie-like. Because everyone likes zombies?
The film dragged on all for the purpose of an emotional ending. They could have used and setting for the movie because it was really just about the end. The post apocalyptic world wasn't explained or explored much. Sure the world is dying and its empty (I get it) but find something for the movie's entertainment value or be thought provoking. It's OK because a tree will fall now and then to remind us it's a bad world. Cue the redneck cannibals every twenty minutes who seem to never catch them despite having trucks and guns.
The kid annoyed me by the en. A moaning do-gooder who seems to not grasp the situation he's in. He's chased by cannibals and is born into a world of strict survival yet still trusts strangers and has no survival skills. Like how he sees a boy and chases him. I hoped it was hungry cannibals setting a trap. If I was the dad I would have felt embarassed even in a baron world. Sissy boy. The end was also pretty dumb in that he happens to get adopted by people who were following him be a use they were worried. About what? Oh and instead of the happy family including a dog approaching him just the father of the mysterous family does to make the situation sinister on purpose. Give me a break. The logic throughout the movie is poor. Why did the mom kill herself? She had to? Was it really good to leave the unlocked air raid shelter full of food they just happen to find? Well they did hear footsteps after all. Why go south? The weather? Didnt stop him swimming in the sea did it? I didnt know post apocalyptic cannibal worlds were better experienced in a warmer climate. The dad gets randomly shot with an arrow by a crazy person who then gets shots back with a flare and then the dad gets called crazy by someone who I presume is the arrow shooters partner. Why? Why why why? Doesn't matter. We had our cannibals, zombie types, Hollywood deep chats, emotional death and convenient happy ending. The end.