Save Yourselves!

It's a don't think about it too much and enjoy movie.

The main characters are performing very well together. Near spoiler alert, no naked scenes, no girl-girl or boy-boy kisses, no crazy action scenes, nothing what is put into all the recent movies to get attention, just simple good and funny acting. Yes, it is funny in most parts, sometimes a little weird funny. It's a good 6 rating almost tempted to give it a 7 for trying something different.

How well would a bunch of quinoa-eating, anti-gun liberal progressive Instagramers fare if faced with protecting themselves from an alien invasion?

That's the question this movie asks, and watching the answer play out is humorous, but I couldn't help but think how much better a movie could have been made from such a good premise. For a liberal progressive like myself, it's easy to put myself in the shoes of the protagonists, a hipster couple from New York who decide to take a break from social media at the worst possible time, and there are some chuckles to be had at making fun of them and by extension myself. The film is at its best in the first half, as this oblivious couple gradually catches on that something is amiss. But it unravels the longer it goes on, and the ending falls apart, as if the filmmakers painted themselves into a corner they didn't know how to get out of.

In a year as terrible as 2020, the film's message, which can essentially be boiled down to valuing those closest to you and forget the rest, is welcome. I just wish it had come in a better package.

Grade: B-

Interesting and unique, but as the film proceeds its keeps getting abstract and finally ends unsatisfactorily.

Using an apocalypse as a vague backdrop for what is essentially a character study on two people meant to represent an entire generation. Satirizing millennials who's technology addiction and well meaning quest for vague self improvement has left them helplessly void of any real life skills. While many of these points have been beaten to death by memes and pop culture, the writing is sharp and performances strong, and I couldn't help but feel a little "called out" on numerous occasions. It's especially ironic though that in the real life catastrophe that began just as this movie was being released, it was actually advantageous to stay inside, glued to the internet.

It was a fun little movie that was clearly made on a limited budget that leaves things to the audience to decide.