Night Into Day

Knowing this was filmed in 2020 or earlier, we know who was President. This movie plays on the theme that the US would be drawn into many wars and sought to scare us that the Orange man would cause nuclear war. The toxic rhetoric of the President is how it's put, or close to that, before any action begins in the nuclear way of things.

I mention irony because no matter what your position on the sliding scale of politics, one would have to be willingly lying to themselves to not understand how much closer the world is to such a disaster today.

At any rate, I was thinking this might be like the movies from the 80s. I'm terrible at remembering the movie names usually but I think The Day After was the American film with Jason Robards but the British film title escapes me. Both were grim looks at the closest a film could make nuclear war appear as it might be in reality. Something like that I hoped for here...turned out to basically be what General Hospital would've done with a nuclear storyline...except I rather enjoyed some GH back in the 80s.

It wasn't a comic book movie and it didn't have CGI.....so, could have been worse.

I appreciate doomesday, survival, apocalyptic type movies. This is one that centers around a typical California couple living in la-la land when an attack occurs. No food, no gun, no skills. It's only them an a looter in the movie. Very realistic scenario for 99% of California residents on how they would survive. .

The movie could have potentially been a 5 star movie for me. It, to me felt very much low budget. The actors were terrible. The ex wife did nothing but complain about the ex husband, dead air moments when you could hear them chewing, swallowing, etc......... drove me so crazy I couldn't watch and or enjoy much of it at all because I didn't want to listen to the dead spots, where you literally could hear someone's stomach sounds, breathing, swallowing, and most painful was listening to ex-wife complain through the whole thing about her husband, when potentially the world was about to end and yet, SHE WAS KINDER TO A STRANGER THAT BROKE INTO THE HOME...... HORRIBLEE. Hollywood, could've made this movie a real blockbuster because of the storyline. Way too much vomiting, swallowing, breathing, stomaches gurgling, etc.....and the dead air spots were worse.........I very rarely watch low budget movies, while I've seen worse, this one didn't impress me at all.

Wow, this is a timely movie. Wrapping a romance plot around a nuclear strike. Sounds crazy but I think it works. And works well. Ben Hall does a nice job as Director telling the story. Acting is pretty good. It is worth a watch. And yes, it has some twists so keep watching. I recommend.