It starts out as a really good idea. I love movies around climate catastophes. Unfortunately, this move falls flat on the family drama and character building.
Not only are all characters extremely unlikeable, their conflicts are ridiculous regarding the circumstances. "You never helped with anything" was mom's main punch to dad, I mean yeah, that seems really important when acid is falling from the sky. I started taking notes about mistakes/plot holes/ bad logic, and the list had 26 items by the end of the film.
Some of them iclude the constant fighting and crying, the unethical/immoral actions of the protagonists and the extreme stupidity they convey.
From deciding to drive out to the unknown to another country instead of their relatively close home through failing to gather resources in shelters they find, going out in the acid rain instead of waiting it out (for example in the hangar - they could drive the car in and have double protection), kicking out innocent injured people from their car, to the constant tantrums of annoying teenager who I ended up referring to only as expletives in my notes, they make all bad, questionable and illogical moves all throughout, I found myself not caring for any of the characters by the end.
Mom was made superfluous quite quick, dad's allergies towards the ex-wife's side of family kicks in real quick and starts heading back to his girlfriend, making their whole ordeal up to that point completely pointless.
The military trucks can't proceed in low foliage, forcing them to walk, when the teen girl throws a completely unreasonable, out-of-the-blue tantrum in the middle of a forest laying face down with the acidic clouds approaching (she even shouts "leave me alone!"- are you serious?!), causing her and her dad to get seperated from the group that was heading to certain safety.
They stumble upon a house with a mom and a sick son, who they not only criticize for not sharing their limited resources, but who they end up leaving for dead, taking their car, their only lifeline, only to get into another ridiculous fight in the middle of a dark field in acid rain waiting for a GPS signal (the mere existence of which is stupid in itself). Dad still ends up driving off the road into pitch dark fields, which is always a good idea.
When you think this couldn't get any worse, the girl storms off in anger, everything still dripping of acid, pitch dark, making her dad chase her through acid pools - and oh, by the way they leave the engine running, because the next gas station must be around the corner, totally not eaten away by acid, so no worries. Girl climbs a metallic structure getting herself in danger, forcing dad to rescue her yet again, the ordeal causing him serious injury.
They end up in a totally undamaged shelter (looks like a stadium) while all buildings around the area literally crumbled by this point. Interesting. Girl, upon learning that dad's girlfriend is also dead, decides to be a brat for one last time and not tell him, keep him in the dark, while he recovers from a double amputation.
So she caused them to get seperated from the military-lead group and her dad ending up with zero legs all because her constant crying, tantrums and mood swings.
The premise of a pair of functional adults with a car, homes and close available resources make the decision to run around in the open under the sky with acid rain clouds into unknown territory is infuriating in itself. Doing it while making the viewer absolutely immune to their distress is an achievement. When the dad shows his straight up lack of humanity towards anyone exept his girlfriend at home, who we can see 3 times, we no longer care if any of them live.
I mean can you make characters more unlikeable than these?
All this is crowned by not getting anything close to an explanation or hint on what was going on, why, or what was to come. It fails to be a climate catastrophe movie and fails to be a drama it so desperately wants to be.
Awful.
Not only are all characters extremely unlikeable, their conflicts are ridiculous regarding the circumstances. "You never helped with anything" was mom's main punch to dad, I mean yeah, that seems really important when acid is falling from the sky. I started taking notes about mistakes/plot holes/ bad logic, and the list had 26 items by the end of the film.
Some of them iclude the constant fighting and crying, the unethical/immoral actions of the protagonists and the extreme stupidity they convey.
From deciding to drive out to the unknown to another country instead of their relatively close home through failing to gather resources in shelters they find, going out in the acid rain instead of waiting it out (for example in the hangar - they could drive the car in and have double protection), kicking out innocent injured people from their car, to the constant tantrums of annoying teenager who I ended up referring to only as expletives in my notes, they make all bad, questionable and illogical moves all throughout, I found myself not caring for any of the characters by the end.
Mom was made superfluous quite quick, dad's allergies towards the ex-wife's side of family kicks in real quick and starts heading back to his girlfriend, making their whole ordeal up to that point completely pointless.
The military trucks can't proceed in low foliage, forcing them to walk, when the teen girl throws a completely unreasonable, out-of-the-blue tantrum in the middle of a forest laying face down with the acidic clouds approaching (she even shouts "leave me alone!"- are you serious?!), causing her and her dad to get seperated from the group that was heading to certain safety.
They stumble upon a house with a mom and a sick son, who they not only criticize for not sharing their limited resources, but who they end up leaving for dead, taking their car, their only lifeline, only to get into another ridiculous fight in the middle of a dark field in acid rain waiting for a GPS signal (the mere existence of which is stupid in itself). Dad still ends up driving off the road into pitch dark fields, which is always a good idea.
When you think this couldn't get any worse, the girl storms off in anger, everything still dripping of acid, pitch dark, making her dad chase her through acid pools - and oh, by the way they leave the engine running, because the next gas station must be around the corner, totally not eaten away by acid, so no worries. Girl climbs a metallic structure getting herself in danger, forcing dad to rescue her yet again, the ordeal causing him serious injury.
They end up in a totally undamaged shelter (looks like a stadium) while all buildings around the area literally crumbled by this point. Interesting. Girl, upon learning that dad's girlfriend is also dead, decides to be a brat for one last time and not tell him, keep him in the dark, while he recovers from a double amputation.
So she caused them to get seperated from the military-lead group and her dad ending up with zero legs all because her constant crying, tantrums and mood swings.
The premise of a pair of functional adults with a car, homes and close available resources make the decision to run around in the open under the sky with acid rain clouds into unknown territory is infuriating in itself. Doing it while making the viewer absolutely immune to their distress is an achievement. When the dad shows his straight up lack of humanity towards anyone exept his girlfriend at home, who we can see 3 times, we no longer care if any of them live.
I mean can you make characters more unlikeable than these?
All this is crowned by not getting anything close to an explanation or hint on what was going on, why, or what was to come. It fails to be a climate catastrophe movie and fails to be a drama it so desperately wants to be.
Awful.