Bokeh

While this wasn't the best sci-fi film I've seen, I think it definitely deserves a higher ranking than most of the reviews here give it, which all seemed to be expecting something more stereotypical.

It is not an action film, nor futuristic. There's no threat to overcome, no adversary to face. It aims for realism, to try and connect the viewer to the characters and make them wonder what THEY would do.

If you're after flashy effects and advanced technology, this isn't a movie for you. It shows genuine reactions from two average people who suddenly find themselves alone in the world with no explanation to what happened or why.

A very good film, but not if you're after a cheap thrill.

Not every movie has to be filled with explosions and narrating the story for you. I read other reviews that this movie was boring, but I found it alluring. It reflects life, in the sense that not everything has answers and the viewer is never given the answer as to what happened to cause the apocalypse and you are left to watch it unfold. Instead of focusing on getting the viewer to form an opinion on the characters through background or becoming emotionally attached, you are viewing the unfolding as if you just woke up one day and followed them, without getting to ask questions, just silently documenting these strangers you know nothing about. It forces your mind to make up your own narrative about them, hence the quietness of the movie itself, just like a real apocalypse scenario would be if you were to watch 2 people like a fly on the wall. Why would they talk about things they already know about eachother? They've been in a relationship for some time, so their conversations arent going to fill you in on their personal pasts. I liked this movie because of that. That it focused more on the "now" and not anything else. You just tagged along with them silently and i found that fresh and different. And even the ending i found myself immersed in his thoughts as the credits scrolled until it faded. I was still like whaaaaaaat all the way up to the end. I liked how they filmed it, and how they spliced vertain scenes together, i thoroughly enjoyed this film.

This is the invention of a new sub-genre: Postapocalyptic boredom. Why bother with a story if you can watch two completely uninteresting random people do completely uninteresting things for 1:30 hours. Sounds great doesn't it? Nothing happens in this movie. It is empty, pointless, boring and depressing. There is no plot. Only nothingness. Just two people doing nothing. Did i mention it was boring? Really really really boring.

This is by far the best explanation of what to expect: Nothing is a concept denoting the absence of something, and is associated with nothingness. Nothing denotes things lacking importance, interest, value, relevance, or significance. Nothingness is the state of being nothing, the state of nonexistence of anything, or the property of having nothing. (quote from Wikipedia).

The problem is that with (mostly) only two people on screen that you really know nothing about it is hard to care about anything happening to them. the main characters never really showed anything about themselves to get me emotionally involved. It all felt very shallow and flat. Sorry to say but throwing in some philosophy and giving it some artsy name doesn't make it art.

As it turns out great cinematography, good acting and good directing is not enough to make a film great. It has to have a story. And this movie has none. Its is boring. Nothing happens. The movie could have finished 15 minutes after the start and it would have made absolutely no difference. The scenario in non existent. It is a pity because the cinematography was amazing. The main characters played by Maika Monroe and Matt O'Leary were very well acted. It makes me wonder why waist so much talent to make a film without a purpose.

I had high hopes for this because the premise seemed interesting and it is filmed in Iceland. Maaan was I wrong. This movie is so dull, Matt O'Leary's acting was terrible, Maika Monroe's character was awfully written, there are some major inconsistencies and the characters and their actions are very unrealistic.