The Worst Film Ever

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

I first saw this ITV drama when it was broadcast in 1999, since then I've watched it a couple more times and it remains gripping. Set in the near future after most of the world has been devastated by an asteroid a small group who survived because they were put into cryogenic suspension when their train crashed in Sheffield. They weren't meant to be frozen but one of them was heading for a government facility there and she had the cryogenic agent with her at the time of impact. The survivors are a varied group; the scientist, a policeman, a criminal, a failed businessman, a pregnant woman, a mother and her two children and two retired people. They have little common apart from their desire to survive. To this end they head to a place called ARC in Scotland where Harriet, the scientist, assures them they will find fellow survivors. On the way they encounter several dangers including wild dogs, acid rain and another group of people.While there is an over all story arc following their journey north each episode contains a new situation for them to overcome; in one they must face the other group to get a boat to cross a flooded river, in another they find a village and must decide whether they should stay their with two surviving villagers or head on North. The small cast do a fine job, notably Nicola Walker as Harriet, Zoe Telford as the pregnant Roe, Christopher Fulford and Ian the police sergeant and Caroline Carver as the mysterious Hild, a girl they meet along the way.At only six episodes the series is quite short and little time is wasted on non essential scenes; the characters are all interesting in their own way; some likable; some deliberately unlikeable and some who are doomed not to survive to the end. If this ever gets broadcast again in it certainly worth watching if you like post-apocalyptic dramas.

This series had potential, but I suppose the budget wouldn't allow it to see that potential. An interesting setup, not dissimilar to "lost" it falls flat after the 1st episode. The whole series, 6 episodes, could have made a compelling 90 minute film, but the makers chose to drag it on and on. Many of the scenes were unbearably slow and long without moving the action forward. The music was very annoying and did not work overall. There were few characters we cared about as their characters did not grow during the time frame--- well, one grew a bit. The ending was as terrible as the rest of series. The only kudos here is to the art dept and set dressers, they created an interesting look, too bad the writer and director lacked the foresight to do something interesting with that element

If you liked any Quartermass, Threads, Village of the Dammed or books like "After the Rain", "Chalk Giants" or anything by John Wyndham then this is one for you.Unrelenting post-apocalypse depression that I believe only works if you grew in the U.K. in the seventies. I liked it a lot.

I really enjoyed this. That it wasn't an original idea is beside the point. HG Wells, John Wyndham, Fred Hoyle, ...many wrote about the End of the World as it might affect the ordinary bod in the street long before such as 'Deep Impact' and other high-impact extravaganzas were made. & I've never forgotten 'Threads'... As a commuter, I can say that no train journey will ever be quite so boring again. I stumbled on this website by chance and am sending this comment in the hope that enough appreciation might persuade Granada to publish a video,