My experience of this film consisted of a series of annoyances. Many of these concerned enormous gaps in:
Critical information - why does Daisy stay in the UK after the war without any reference to her family or her life of the past 16 years? Was the United States obliterated, or does she actually have the worst father ever? NOTE: At least the writers occasionally addressed this issue spot on, e.g., Eddie should seemingly have been killed along with his brother and all the other occupants of Gatesville Farm, but arrived home in a catatonic state. What really happened? "We'll never know." Hee hee.
Continuity - why was poisonous radiated water that all came from the same sky sometimes safe to drink? How did Daisy and Piper's hosts and their neighbors return home when the terrorists had taken control of the sole entryway to the development and were killing everyone on sight?
Logic - the hike back home was apparently 7 or 8 days. Daisy brought one bottle of water and no water pills, so she and Piper must have the hydration requirements of cacti. And after Piper says she can't go any farther after roughly 5 days - you know, without any water, or food, and bleeding feet that turned her socks red, and the fact that she's 8 - Daisy tells her to grow a pair, and that's enough to get her all the way home.
Other irritations centered around the personalities and behavior of the characters, e.g., London is destroyed, hundreds of thousands die immediately, the rest of the country is under siege, and the teens act like it's summer camp. Whee! No one misses Mom, although she couldn't be bothered to cook or wash a single dish and barely acknowledged she had children, so maybe that was realistic.
Honestly, there was no point at which I liked Daisy. From the moment she arrived in England, she was a stone-cold bitch (and was never called out on it). After sleeping with her cousin, he becomes her reason for living, and everyone else and their concerns be damned. She has the organizational skills of a kindergartner. Oops, forgot the water pills! Lost the map! Lost the compass! Not that any of that matters, as noted above; but maybe she needs to turn up the volume rather than shut out the critical, unexplained "rules" running through her head.
My final frustration is aimed at Marketing. Couldn't you have acknowledged in advertising that the movie is about an Instagram influencer who becomes obsessed with an incestuous relationship, then engages on an abbreviated Bataan Death March while torturing a cute little ginger? I would have easily known that I should pick a different movie.
Critical information - why does Daisy stay in the UK after the war without any reference to her family or her life of the past 16 years? Was the United States obliterated, or does she actually have the worst father ever? NOTE: At least the writers occasionally addressed this issue spot on, e.g., Eddie should seemingly have been killed along with his brother and all the other occupants of Gatesville Farm, but arrived home in a catatonic state. What really happened? "We'll never know." Hee hee.
Continuity - why was poisonous radiated water that all came from the same sky sometimes safe to drink? How did Daisy and Piper's hosts and their neighbors return home when the terrorists had taken control of the sole entryway to the development and were killing everyone on sight?
Logic - the hike back home was apparently 7 or 8 days. Daisy brought one bottle of water and no water pills, so she and Piper must have the hydration requirements of cacti. And after Piper says she can't go any farther after roughly 5 days - you know, without any water, or food, and bleeding feet that turned her socks red, and the fact that she's 8 - Daisy tells her to grow a pair, and that's enough to get her all the way home.
Other irritations centered around the personalities and behavior of the characters, e.g., London is destroyed, hundreds of thousands die immediately, the rest of the country is under siege, and the teens act like it's summer camp. Whee! No one misses Mom, although she couldn't be bothered to cook or wash a single dish and barely acknowledged she had children, so maybe that was realistic.
Honestly, there was no point at which I liked Daisy. From the moment she arrived in England, she was a stone-cold bitch (and was never called out on it). After sleeping with her cousin, he becomes her reason for living, and everyone else and their concerns be damned. She has the organizational skills of a kindergartner. Oops, forgot the water pills! Lost the map! Lost the compass! Not that any of that matters, as noted above; but maybe she needs to turn up the volume rather than shut out the critical, unexplained "rules" running through her head.
My final frustration is aimed at Marketing. Couldn't you have acknowledged in advertising that the movie is about an Instagram influencer who becomes obsessed with an incestuous relationship, then engages on an abbreviated Bataan Death March while torturing a cute little ginger? I would have easily known that I should pick a different movie.