Reviews

This move was terrible. It isn't a parody, but with little effort could have turned out to be a decent one. Instead, it tries to be a serious disaster-themed movie, and fails terribly at it.

The characters in the movie are so stupid, it's laughable. Picture this - the earth as we know it will cease to exist in 2 hours; we have 2 astronauts and a conspiracy theorist hovering over the moon in a space shuttle they just got out from a museum, the non-astronaut is busy taking pictures of the moon with his phone with one of the astronauts grinning and smirking at him! None of the actors, although accomplished, seem to feel their characters - it looks like they did it for a paycheck.

I remember watching an episode of Scooby Doo when I was a kid that was more believable.

Overall a good movie. There are some good scares as well.

But the one thing I don't understand is the need for the main character to continue walking around the house in the dark when he knows/suspects that there's someone/something else there! Is he trying to save on his utility bills? Doesn't make sense.

The overall theme of the movie is good. What makes it annoying is without a doubt the mother! I think at times, the intensity of annoyance supersedes the scare factor due to the mother! She is so ridiculously irritating in the movie that at times I was just thinking of not watching any further. But I am glad I endured the suffering and watched all the way till the end because it made for a decent ending and tied the many events during the course of the movie together. A few other things that could probably not have been there in the movie was the many things that the son indulges in doing every time the family stops for on the road for whatever reason. I know the son is supposed to be an obnoxious one, but still...

Overall, a decent movie. You could do without watching the movie, but you still could give it a try for a decent plot (that becomes more apparent towards the end). But just prepare yourself to endure some pain during the movie.

Oh man, this one was hard to watch!

Growing up, I was a huge huge Steve Austin fan! But guess that was because he was an amazing wrestler! But as an actor, he probably isn't good enough. The whole movie had actors struggling and trying hard to fit their roles!

Also time seems to run differently for Austin. He could fall off a clip and get washed ashore by the river, but he would still be back atop the mountain in the same time as it would have taken for the bad guys to maybe take a few steps or cover a mile's hike! This is a recurrent theme throughout the movie.

The main bad guy and his crew were super super annoying. The only person I seemed to start being okay with towards the end was Dominica - she was somewhat better off the rest.

Overall, I wouldn't have missed much had I not watched the movie either. And to top it all, not a single stone cold stunner was dropped either.

This one had some really good actors, but what didn't really work for me is the "motive" for the bad guy to go all out nuclear, and then the simplicity of the portable nuclear weapon and the technicalities of its build.

With regards to his motive, sure, I understand he is in a lot of pain from having lost his dearest ones - that's very sad. But in retaliation, he decides to carry a portable nuclear weapon in a backpack? His dearest ones died, so he wants to wipe out an entire city or state?

And then that weapon has a layer 1 "regular bomb" and a layer 2 "nuclear bomb"? And so Dr. Kelly can just cut the wiring to layer 2 so that although layer 1 explodes, the layer 2 nuclear bomb does not go off? Weren't these the same people who kept yelling to not shoot bullets at the truck that had been carrying nuclear warheads earlier in the movie?

Seemed quite silly overall. And then the 90s cheesy dialogues were fun though - "I want a soldier who doesn't mind taking orders from a lady" or "I am not scared of the man with 10 nuclear warheads, I am scared of the man who is carrying one and can use it".. or something like that.

I haven't read the book this movie is based on. So I went into watching it without knowing anything at all. It was decent up until about 80% into the movie, but then to just see why all that meat was being made ready in the train was quite disappointing, and actually made me lose all interest in watching it any further.