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An earthquake strikes, and the home has only young women in it. With no water, no electricity, and no cell phone service, they are, of course doomed. Some may liken it to a female version of Lord of the Flies, except the boys were really trapped, and that is a far better movie. Olivia seems to be one who had her head about her, and Dolly holds on tightly to a doll, as it seems it is her only friend. There is dirt piled near the top of the windows, but since the house didn't suffer a lot of damage and the windows didn't break, it couldn't have been a massive amount of dirt, so they could have simply opened a window and crawled out. That would have made for a 5 minute movie, and be better. Instead, it degenerates into most of them living in filth, showing despair and basically going crazy. All in the space of a couple of days, at the most. No one seems to be able to come up with a plan. On top of that, the sound track becomes super annoying. It starts out like geese honking, then horns honking, and then (according to subtitles) women vocalizing. A truly terrible movie, and while 3 may seem generous, one may not want to know which movies I have rated lower than that.

Will Radford (Ice Cube) works for homeland security, where he monitors terrorist threats. But it seems he spends more time monitoring everything his children do. And it is really over the top. He can monitor internal security cameras, activate drones, etc. It really takes surveillance to a whole new level. And his aim is to find out who is "Disrupter" who threatens to uncover a secret government surveillance program. Or, as the director stated, 'if we can't track our citizens, how can we protect them?" And the surveillance goes down to the level of knowing what you have in your shopping carts. One day, there is a massive global meteor strike, and within it are alien probes, and those probes are seeking data. Will thinks he has power with all the data he can access, but quickly finds he actually doesn't have any power. Many things in this movie require one to not think at all. The military loses access to the ability to operate, since they lost access to data. But Will still seems to have access to about everything, including phones. Most of the movie is his face next to computer boxes showing connections and other things. He even hijacks a Tesla to take his daughter to a hospital, using remote driving. It is silly and stupid in many ways. If that is what one wants, they may feel it is a better movie than I do.

Mary, who is living with Primo, whom she considers a rather loser, gets fired from her temp job and comes home to find him dead. The humor is on the flippant side, and not for all tastes. But Mary finds out that not only do most people know who Primo is, many have slept with him, and some consider him quite an accomplished artist. She finds out he had an entire life she knew nothing about. But then she hadn't been with him that long. And her circle of friends are some interesting characters. It is a breezy and fun movie but not something of a great cinematic feature.