wdevraz When I first started watching the film, I was hooked by the concept of it all - the end of the world via mobile phones and people wiping out electronics and signals? Great!But then as the film progressed, it seemed to have nothing at all to do with the end of the world really. All the scenes were set in the woods at this point, and there was no real outside information about what was happening in the film. Come to think of it, the concept had a massive flaw that should have been noticed. How could it be the end of the world?Someone had created a 'virus' on a phone that sent a message saying 'Goodbye World' to everyone in their contacts, this happened to everyone on the planet, thus sending a message to everyone on the planet (who has a phone) - which therefore would have crashed the servers or networks. That's fair enough, that would have been fixed in a matter of days by people.Next, a bomb was planted on a truck with all shopping related items, ready to be distributed to the stores and it went off in a big city. Right, I get that - so they shut down the border and distribution for a few days or until they can trace who is sending the bombs in and planting them in trucks. What am I missing here? The end of the world? I think not.Great concept, bad film. The storyline wasn't explained too great and for me it seems like the film ended at the halfway point. What was happening outside the world, and more importantly, why?

berthaangela The entirety of this film (actors, actresses, plot, cinematography) was beyond beautiful. Of course, watching my 90's crush Adrian Grenier prance all over my television screen didn't hurt either... Besides all of those things, this film was truly spectacular. It brought many fears and ideas that could be a possibility of the future, squished into the entire film the social dynamics of our world and really makes you ponder: what would you do in this sort of situation? what kind of person would you be? As an Environmental Science student, I see this film as the future. It brings joy to my mind that people are slowly but surely realizing that they have and are continuing to make an impact in this world. It is important now, more than ever to learn how to become sustainable. Thank you for this rad film. Thank you also for making sustainability something people can connect with. It was amazing. Surely has made the list of one of my favorite films of all time. Much love, xx

dmanning9 Great concept. Poor characters. I am really hoping for the sake of America that people do not really act like this. I know there are some people who sit around and smoke weed all day and act like 16 year olds even though they are in there 20's early 30's but come on. I find it hard to believe that these people would act this way in an event like this. There are okay parts but overall I kept waiting for something to happen. I mean the world is ending and these people are acting like its a high school reunion. And what was with the girl pissing right in front of everyone? She could have easily used the bathroom 10 feet away. Like I said before if people really act like this way I can only imagine what would happen if some major thing happened in this world. I guess we should all just sit there and smoke week when the world goes down huh?

jhk655 Contains minor spoilers/allusions to events in the movie that might give some parts away.First the bad: I'd like to start off by saying I really had higher hopes for this movie and the story it was trying to explore. There are tons of post-apocalyptic movies, but usually they are about people in dire straights, doing whatever it takes to survive in a world with dwindling resources. The promise of this story, at least the promise I gleaned from the description on Netflix, is that it would explore how people with a "sustainable agriculture" type of lifestyle weather the Apocalypse. What I found was a story that is tainted with unrealistically optimistic expectations of a post rule-of-law world.The writers' idea of what would happen in this scenario is incredibly naïve and foolishly optimistic. In times of desperation, civil discourse goes out the window, and the worst of humanity is revealed. People are not willing to share or compromise in these situations. Even if cooperation has the promise of greater reward, in times of panic people will almost always choose the "Right here, Right now" option. Clearly the writers either do not understand this or they must not be paying attention to what's happening in less fortunate areas of the world. The most unrealistic thing about this movie is its character's expectation of security/safety. One of the first things most people would do in the event of the breakdown of society would be to locate and secure at least one weapon (preferably firearms). The more the better. After all, sooner or later supplies are going to run out and the neighbors are going to start strongly insisting on the concept of sharing. Unfortunately for the main characters, the general consensus seems to be that guns are "scary" and they prefer not to have them around at all. In fact The only gun they have is a revolver brought by one of the group members against the others' wishes, and is therefore kept unloaded. While in some circles this may be a noble attitude of anti-violence, it has no place in a post rule-of-law world. Their moral high horse is quickly knocked out from under them when armed thugs raid their stockpile at gunpoint, and molest one of the group members. While I applaud them for at least getting the fact that they got robbed right, I have to say that it happens much too late in the story to be believable. In reality, they would not have simply been robbed and groped, and after being asked nicely to boot. The locals would have been there much sooner, with guns, and without asking. Being robbed and groped would be extremely preferable to what would really happen. Their aversion to weapons seems like wishful thinking and not representative of most of America. Let's just say if that scene had taken place in my neck of the woods, those two thugs wouldn't have simply walked away after the trespass they had just made, apocalypse or not.With the whole defense issue being ignored on moral grounds, you would think they would have plenty of other survival based issues to dwell upon. Such as, What do we do when we run out of food? What happens when are solar power/water pump system breaks down? Since we have decided to forego weapons how are we going to keep peaceful relations with our armed and dangerous neighbors? Instead, the problems and arguments the group choose to dwell upon are for some reason, still those of a developed first world nation. They worry far too much about how happy they are in their relationships and how much they hate each other for shallow insignificant character flaws. they do this even after they are robbed of their resources at gunpoint. In what world is the most salient problem how happy you are with your partner when you have no real sustainable source of food? Oh yeah I forgot about their garden, which looked capable of feeding one person out of ten for a few days. This again just shows how ungrounded and shallow the writers are. I guess they have never heard of Maslow's hierarchy of human needs. How can one worry about existential fulfillment when they don't have food/water/shelter/security? They can't, and it makes much of the dialogue in this movie absurd.Because of these points, I felt the dialogue and events of the movie were just flat out unbelievable. Without a believable infrastructure it comes off as an idealistic college kid's expectation of the consequences of the collapse of society. The good:In spite of the fact that the dialogue wasn't believable for the setting, it remained intelligent and informed. They talked about the kinds of things you would expect to hear from your pseudo-intellectual friends at a party. Imagine the "politically aware drunk college guy/girl" at a party, age them 10 years, then imagine they've mostly got their life together, this person is ever main character in the movie.Conclusion: While the events of the movie itself are absurdly unbelievable, if you suspend disbelief, the movie has just enough suspense and character development to keep you entertained. Just don't expect a realistic portrayal of the break-down of society. the events are more in line with what would happen in a town that lost power for 2 weeks.