alexwesterberg
Overall a dull love story but Steve Carrell's always-excellent acting, Keira Knightley's charm and a believably fraught finale carried it up a level to a very respectable romance flick score.
gundyjada
Okay i'd just like to say that i made an account just to write this review so not everyone has to suffer like i did.
bottom line, don't watch this movie.
now i can get past the face that it was COMPLETELY unrealistic due to the fact that they were still able to purchase gas and other every day items DURING THE APOCALYPSE. That i can possibly live with. But what i can't get over is the complete lack of character development and this also COULD have been overlooked if the two main characters didn't fall in love. and i'm thinking if i didn't know anything about the characters, how the hell did they know anthing about each other!? especially since they just DECIDED they were the love of each other's lives in what?? a week? less? I honestly don't know because within the hour and 40 minutes of my life that i wasted, they failed to be consistent with a timeline that would allow me to figure that out.
People are writing reviews about how "deep and touching" this movie was? maybe they watched a different movie than me because i no way was i moved by this movie. maybe i moved a little closer to the bathroom because of how repulsed i was by the attempt of comedy within the movie. but not emotionally.
I bursted out laughing at the end, so predictable and so stupid.
i can't emphasize it enough. do not watch this movie.
jbenante-388-963917
I'm not sure why this movie didn't get a higher overall rating. Sure, there are a number of things in the plot that aren't realistic. So what? It never pretended to be, as far as I can tell, a movie trying to accurately portray the end of the world.The impending End is kind of a silent character hanging over the proceedings. The movie is not so much about the End. The movie is character driven, and often funny and heartbreaking at the same time. It does a pretty decent job of showing how people might react in the situation. Of course, it's speculation. No one can predict how people would really react, and hopefully we won't have to find out any time soon.Carell and Knightley are both very good in the leads. They imbue even more warmth and humanity into the movie, whose script already has quite a bit of warmth and humanity baked into it.I found the ending, in particular, to be quite lovely.People expecting hard-core sci-fi should absolutely steer clear. The sci-fi elements remain very much in the background. But for those with romantic souls (not necessarily sappily romantic), this movie is a must see.
jpetrie-2
There is almost nothing interesting or engaging about this movie. It's a little dark and a little funny at times, but it's one of the least funny comedies I've seen. Even worse, though, is that it's completely unromantic. It's okay for a romantic comedy to be not very funny if it's romantic, but there is virtually no romance here. I didn't believe for a second that any characters fell in love during this movie. I saw no evidence of it, and the supposedly romantic scenes made me feel nothing.I think the main problem is that this movie tries to be three different things -- funny, romantic, and dark -- and it ends up being not much of any one of them. It's surely hard making a comedy or a romance set during the end of the world, so it shouldn't have been too dark; I think the level of darkness would have been fine if the comedy or the romance had been much stronger.One bright spot was that Steve Carell was fine. I like him in some things and not in others (mainly I dislike his awkward, cringey humor), and he basically plies his normal schtick here. He does a good job of it and it's the right schtick for this movie.
AD
