Dear UK National Lottery, please stop wasting money funding utter rubbish such as this load of poorly acted tripe.
Much like a lot of Lottery funded films over the years this is a film that would never have been (and indeed should never have been) made if it weren't for the funding grant this film received, unfortunately it did and it was.
There are some good ideas here, the tension leading up to and the subsequent occurrences of a nuclear explosion works but is quickly glossed over, there is confusion as to whether this was a story about a terrorist attack and its aftermath or a war with an invading force of unidentified origin.
Coupled with a cast that (with the exception of the criminally underused Anna Chancellor) couldn't act their way out of a paper bag let alone a post nuclear crisis and you have a badly stitched together mess.
There were far too many plot holes, far too much unexplained and too many cardboard characters that quite frankly no one cared about, especially the leading lady who was just awful. It would have been better to have concentrated on the war (if it really was one, kind of ended a bit quick didn't it?) and forgotten about the really irritating kids.
Oh and before I forget, a note to the British Board of Film Classification who seemed the need to advertise 'Contains strong sex' in the classification card at the start, they were clearly watching a different film to everyone else as the semi clothed cousins 'sex scene' was one of the dullest and most unerotic sex scenes I have ever seen!
Much like a lot of Lottery funded films over the years this is a film that would never have been (and indeed should never have been) made if it weren't for the funding grant this film received, unfortunately it did and it was.
There are some good ideas here, the tension leading up to and the subsequent occurrences of a nuclear explosion works but is quickly glossed over, there is confusion as to whether this was a story about a terrorist attack and its aftermath or a war with an invading force of unidentified origin.
Coupled with a cast that (with the exception of the criminally underused Anna Chancellor) couldn't act their way out of a paper bag let alone a post nuclear crisis and you have a badly stitched together mess.
There were far too many plot holes, far too much unexplained and too many cardboard characters that quite frankly no one cared about, especially the leading lady who was just awful. It would have been better to have concentrated on the war (if it really was one, kind of ended a bit quick didn't it?) and forgotten about the really irritating kids.
Oh and before I forget, a note to the British Board of Film Classification who seemed the need to advertise 'Contains strong sex' in the classification card at the start, they were clearly watching a different film to everyone else as the semi clothed cousins 'sex scene' was one of the dullest and most unerotic sex scenes I have ever seen!
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