ganz1912

Attempts to portray novel forms of apocalypse (a genre I confess I'm a fan of) often lead to tedious duds like this one. The initial premise doesn't look bad; coupled with a typical trait of this kind of cinema in which, although it's known that something bad is happening, it's not yet clear what it really is. But after that promising start, the movie stalls and starts to flounder, with clichéd performances that don't evoke the slightest empathy for the clichés they're transporting us to. And one of the classic sins of apocalyptic cinema begins when it tries to rush the pace out of nowhere: the characters, almost out of thin air, start making logical reasonings and deductions to determine what's going on, and suddenly... they miraculously hit the nail on the head (as if maybe when the end of the world comes, at least we'll be aware of the moment...). It's okay to underestimate the average viewer a bit, but one shouldn't overdo it either.

But it would be malicious to say or assume that we are witnessing a kind of plagiarism mix between The Happening (2008) and A Quiet Place (2018)...