Sorry, this movie sucks

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Absolutely brilliant

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Taking a look to see if anything had been added to Netflix UK over the last few days,I discovered that a post-apocalypse Comedy with Julia Stiles was going to be taken off the site in a few days time.Being a fan of the post-apocalypse (and also having enjoyed seeing Stiles in some titles) I decided that it was the best time to visit the disaster zone.The plot:For their third date Tracy Scott decides to take her date Glenn Randolph to a couples brunch hosted by her sister Emma Mandrake.Shortly after everyone arrives for brunch,the TV,phone and internet start to shut down.Caught up blaming each other over who has not paid the bill,Emma and Pete Mandrake catch the other couples by surprise,by revealing that they are getting divorced.Reeling from the news,the group get a surprise visit from neighbour Hal Lousteau,who tells the couples that they must stay in the house,due to five,possibly nuclear, bombs having just gone off.View on the film:Spending the whole film in the house as the world ends,writer/co- star/director Todd Berger & cinematographer Nancy Schreiber give the movie a warm,free-flowing improvised atmosphere,as rough-edge whip- pans catch relationships in the house ending with the world.Although he does not step outside,Berger does very well at drawing a rough impression of the events taking place outside,,with the crackle of radio/phone calls and the odd front door visit hinting at the disaster unfolding just down the street.Offering the perfect black Comedy backdrop with the apocalypse,the screenplay by Berger largely leaves comedic set-pieces for a dry,bitter wit being fed by the ripples of Emma and Peter's marriage problems. Casting everyone in the wacky shade,Berger gives each characters weird edges a delicious kooky warmth,which shines from Randolph being completely uncomfortable,to Hal's hilarious matter of fact warning. Joined by the off-beat delights from Kevin M. Brennan and Erinn Hayes,David Cross and Julia Stiles give great performances,thanks to Stiles giving Tracy a sharp shot of level- headed sass,whilst Cross raptures Glen with an unexpected dash of mad sincerity.Final view on the film:A movie that is far from disastrous.

Great screenplay, fine acting, good soundtrack. This movie is already a cult.There are moments of supreme comedy, like the scene where two friends are left out because they are late, or when they start dancing and finish singing "the house of the rising sun". Or when they think to try to get away with the SUV with the windows up taking "short breaths" only to discover that battery are down because the Vegan has listened to the radio all time long.Two separated reunite and two six-years-engaged separate: everything seems meaningless as in a Beckett's comedy of the absurd. Only this time everything is meaningless as long as the "Disaster" is coming.I liked this comedy very much and I'm sure it deserves a watch.edit 2018 march, 30th UPDATE I watched this movie once again. I've looked for the box office gross of this movie and I was shocked: $60,818. Widest release: 13 theaters On an estimated bufget of 3,000,000 Distribution of this movie failed somewhere in the process.I mean Left Behind (2014) grossed $14,019,924 in 1,887 theaters. Come on! Shame on you, producers!8/10

Wow this movie was bad, I don't know how they did it but they managed to make a movie about the end of the world boring. I spent half the movie trying to decide whether this was a comedy or not. The atmosphere felt like a comedy but all the so called "jokes" fell very flat. This movie is not worth your time, it was extremely boring, with only one location and very little possibilities. I would have preferred the movie if they took out the disaster and made a movie about a brunch. Then maybe I wouldn't hate all of the characters by the end (because the disaster brings out the worst in all of them, to say the least). And of course the writers couldn't help themselves from throwing in the obligatory religious crazy person. The only problem is they didn't do anything new with it. This movie is essentially one big cliché after another, you can predict most of what happens before it does. It seems to me that the movie can't decide what it wants to be, and ends up failing at all of them. It's not funny enough to be a comedy. They don't leave the house so you don't see the disaster so it's hardly a disaster movie. And said disaster ends all possibilities to be a drama. Do yourself a favor and skip this movie.

If the people are not religious and never proclaimed allegiance to Jesus, and if some are happy adulterers, how can they go to heaven? Why does the Ben Cross character think they would go to heaven? Why would drinking poison help you go to heaven better than dying from Nerve Gas, if in neither circumstance, did you find Jesus? Having said all that, I like the premise. Apocalyptic stuff can happen when you least expect it. You could be in the bathroom, or at a brunch, or whatever.In this case, the people could only react to the situation within the context of who they were. With no forewarning, they could just be themselves to the end, without much philosophizing. Whereas if they got a year's notice, they could possibly transform into deeper people.The reality is that a lot of people have the skills to do some job, but are pretty shallow and worthless otherwise. In this case, these were people who were raised on pop culture and cynicism. Some had skills and all could afford homes and cars. But they had no class.One reviewer from New Zealand said that was because these people were shallow Americans. But I'm not sure what he's talking about. Would he prefer we beat each other up over soccer matches or wait in long lines for socialist crap? There are a lot of shallow, worthless people all over the world. It's not unique to America. Nice use of dark comedy. I really liked the comic book guy. He had some funny lines and a really quirky way about him. I didn't need to see America Ferrera on the toilet. There's no point to that.Not one character ever mentioned their parents or siblings.Wouldn't drinking that poison lead to a tortured and prolonged death just like the nerve gas? Why were they referencing the University of Texas? Was it supposed to be Austin? The writer is from New Orleans. No one had an accent.I think it did show that couples can stick together, even after betrayal, when they have enough time and equity built into the relationship.The speech by the America Ferrera character about how the disaster made her realize that she wants out of her relationship was one of the best parts.The shots of their friends laying dead on the front porch were pretty eerie and a good use of tragicomedy.I wouldn't recommend this movie. It's depressing and not that funny. It would have to have been either funnier or deeper, to make it worth your while. But there was some good writing and adequate performances. Forget about it.