American Refugee

Please spend you 1.5 hours doing something, anything else.

The characters are undeveloped and make asinine decisions.

The pregnant lady's pain seems to be non-existent except for when the plot requires it. Smh.

This movie does not deserve a 3.9 rating here. It's not great of course. Maybe my 6.0 is a bit generous I don't know. This movie did one thing well and that it kept moving and held your interest. From beginning to end I was caught up in the excitement and tension. This movie also was bad in some respects. The acting was horrible, especially from the female lead. I rarely complain about acting. Also the ending was so anticlimactic. It was like just another scene but it was the climax. Again, definitely not deserving of a 3.9, but pass on this anyways.

Diversity and screenplay. I watched all the way through yet was disappointed on how the villainized one group of people. Acting was great could have been much better if their was not an internal agenda. Too bad for the director, could have been a great movie otherwise. Stars were only for the great acting portrayed by all the actors.

This movie is such trash... it had potential but it loses it quickly.. the lead character (Greg) tries to act like an alpha male, he feels inadequate because he can't take care of his family. Him and his wife already have some weird fight going on when the movie starts. Martial law is happening so the country is falling apart. Looting and home invasions start happening..So what does old Greg do? He begs for help from his neighbor who is a doomsday prepper. The neighbor reluctantly takes in his family. The neighbor tries to teach greg to be a man but greg can't handle the responsibility. Greg realizes how little he contributes and becomes angry. He then screws over the man that took his family in while the world was losing its mind .... the neighbor fed old Greg's family, provided shelter and gave them a place for them to hide while they can make their own plans and not be ungrateful mooches... Greg and his family simply take without contributing or even saying thank you. The mom does help deliver the neighbors baby to be fair.. Greg feels like a little man because he can't provide or protect for his family as the neighbor has done... so he tries to pick fights with the neighbor. His son Kai meddles in the dooms day preppers things and food storage and steals from him (what a great kid). He is a mute... the sister declares he is a smart boy though. I think we all know the truth with that. This movie makes you more irritated and annoyed by Greg and his dysfunction whining, greedy fam.. you almost wish the ending went differently . Save yourself the 95 min and your sanity and find another movie.

When the country is thrown into chaos, a black family must seek shelter and food from their white next-door-neighbor, who happens to be a backwoods truther and religious zealot.

This movie was about as in-your-face superficial as it could get. Two families that are opposites in almost all aspects must survive together. The one quality we see shared in Greg, Winter, and Zoe is their need to be outspoken. This creates little squabbles ad nauseum among the characters.

The acting and writing were both meh, and I kept feeling like I was still waiting for the movie to take-off, though before I knew it, it was the end. It ended abruptly and unrealistically. I'll give it two stars because I did finish it, I was just hoping for more of a story. This depended entirely on opposing lifestyles creating conflict.