"Spoiler Alert!" This review contains spoilers.
This movie looks pretty much like "I am legend", 'though it is not as exciting or does not have Will Smith in it, but it is about the same thing, a sort of trying to survive when there are so few people left. It is a combination of a thriller (hardly), a horror (mostly) and many bad decisions.
Its start raises one question, what happened to the people from the theater ? But I was waiting for answers, saw that the plot was not that original, as I've mentioned before, but why not, the darkness will kill you, so STAY IN THE LIGHT ! So the movie brings together 4 people,each one with his/her own story, most of them should not have lived to see this moment. Why ? Both the male adults are displayed as standing in the dark for couple of seconds and guess what ? The darkness does not kill them, but comes for them (quite slowly, comparing to how 3 of them die later) and accomplishes nothing, but just a tease.
So I said to myself, OK, maybe there is a meaning, the Darkness vs. the Light, the voices that you should not listen (but they all do, like how stupid can you be not to listen, come on !!) and how to find a way for surviving. Of course, there is only one car with a battery not dead (ironically, as in a kind of bad movie idea) and the batteries for the flash lights are VERY limited, the light an be barely obtained, but why, just why don't they wait for the sun to come up and try to go to Chicago, why are they so boldly stupid, why ?
So, I'll give it a 4 out of 10, although it deserved 7, until the boy remained alone in the church. The questions remained answered until the movie ended are :
1. As even they are asking themselves, how come they've reached the same spot, almost in the same time, why ?
2. How come the 2 male adults survived, although it is seen that both should have died ( at least the first one, in the theater), hit by someone (???) ?
3. What's the thing with the darkness and the shadows and the non- sense, is there any sense to this movie or what ?
4. After returning (as if the conscious hit him) to the church, why was that actor so, again, boldly stupid to stay out of the car for so long that the light would go off, why ?
5. How come the kid survives the darkness, just because he says "I exist" ?
6. What's with the "I exist" exclamation, does that make a person stronger, in what way ?
7. What's with the girl that always is found on the street, is she insane or is she part of the Big Plan of the movie of not understanding it at all ?
8. Just before the end, how come a horse survived the darkness and what was it doing in the street ?
9. The ending, oh my God, the ending : why would two kids ride a horse towards (hopefully) Chicago, when darkness is coming, or is it "working" only in the city ?
If you want my advice, don't watch this movie, unless you're curios about it because, guess what, you won't be feeling in any way better after seeing it.
This movie looks pretty much like "I am legend", 'though it is not as exciting or does not have Will Smith in it, but it is about the same thing, a sort of trying to survive when there are so few people left. It is a combination of a thriller (hardly), a horror (mostly) and many bad decisions.
Its start raises one question, what happened to the people from the theater ? But I was waiting for answers, saw that the plot was not that original, as I've mentioned before, but why not, the darkness will kill you, so STAY IN THE LIGHT ! So the movie brings together 4 people,each one with his/her own story, most of them should not have lived to see this moment. Why ? Both the male adults are displayed as standing in the dark for couple of seconds and guess what ? The darkness does not kill them, but comes for them (quite slowly, comparing to how 3 of them die later) and accomplishes nothing, but just a tease.
So I said to myself, OK, maybe there is a meaning, the Darkness vs. the Light, the voices that you should not listen (but they all do, like how stupid can you be not to listen, come on !!) and how to find a way for surviving. Of course, there is only one car with a battery not dead (ironically, as in a kind of bad movie idea) and the batteries for the flash lights are VERY limited, the light an be barely obtained, but why, just why don't they wait for the sun to come up and try to go to Chicago, why are they so boldly stupid, why ?
So, I'll give it a 4 out of 10, although it deserved 7, until the boy remained alone in the church. The questions remained answered until the movie ended are :
1. As even they are asking themselves, how come they've reached the same spot, almost in the same time, why ?
2. How come the 2 male adults survived, although it is seen that both should have died ( at least the first one, in the theater), hit by someone (???) ?
3. What's the thing with the darkness and the shadows and the non- sense, is there any sense to this movie or what ?
4. After returning (as if the conscious hit him) to the church, why was that actor so, again, boldly stupid to stay out of the car for so long that the light would go off, why ?
5. How come the kid survives the darkness, just because he says "I exist" ?
6. What's with the "I exist" exclamation, does that make a person stronger, in what way ?
7. What's with the girl that always is found on the street, is she insane or is she part of the Big Plan of the movie of not understanding it at all ?
8. Just before the end, how come a horse survived the darkness and what was it doing in the street ?
9. The ending, oh my God, the ending : why would two kids ride a horse towards (hopefully) Chicago, when darkness is coming, or is it "working" only in the city ?
If you want my advice, don't watch this movie, unless you're curios about it because, guess what, you won't be feeling in any way better after seeing it.