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Starting off with captivating protagonist and promising story that delivers to some extend but not all. Epidemic, societal decline and government control are main themes. Beautifully shot with grim city scapes. Reasonable realistic character development but it crumbles a little at the 5/6 episode mark where the story takes detours. The biggest fail and why it is not high 8s for this review is the lack of explanation around this epidemic, the mortality and symptoms for example. Without this, it is difficult to feel threat or urgency which also sends other storylines a drift. It feels like the story is searching although the cinematography is excellent.

From the word go it's not going well for this bravado piece. Using a rather deep idea with great potential, tearing it up and the remnants that come floating up is pretty much this movie.

Wise cracking themselves through a plot that's even more unpredictable than the weather in this movie. Waste of money, yes certainly. Although from the amount of studio generated and green screen shots, is nothing earth shattering (no pun intended).

There is a Wes Anderson attempt in this movie which falls flat in this production. Big expectations. It was however very flat and uninteresting. Many gaps and little explanation about the characters background yet a of over engineering in dialogue. If feels forced and archaic at times. Michelle Pfeiffer can only be magnificent. However there is no role for the son character. Malcolm, does not ad anything to the story. It feels like more and more characters are dragged in only to fill the voids in this empty plot.