muons The movie rather looks like a badly edited mashup from survivor episodes focusing on the boring story of two failing contestants. This introduction should tell enough about the quality of directing and script upfront. The tenuous plot is set up on a power outage that lasts 15+ months. In today's living standards this is as close as you could get to an apocalyptic world but the movie never goes into that avenue. Instead, it uses the power outage as a stage decoration backdrop for the whimsical behaviors of two sisters whose survival instincts and decisions can't match a five year old. The grindingly slow pace and wispy dialog don't help the poor quality of the movie, either. Part of the reason is that there are hardly any subplots that would help to pick up the tempo except for a couple of instances which come out of nowhere and fizzle out quickly. As for the acting, one can speak about some decent efforts from Ellen Page but owing to the dismal script, she, too fails a convincing performance. Finally, the absurdity of the ending is beyond description.Now some technical criticism is in order. The lack of electricity for the collapse of our modern world is a valid reason but not realistic at all. Indeed the movie makes no attempt to give a rationale for the lack of power for so long. Including an asteroid hit at the scale of Yucatan peninsula some 65 million years ago, there's no natural or human made disaster that would take out the grid (not even the internet) for more than a few weeks, owing to the distributed nature of the network. Yes, it is fragile and unstable enough to go awry with something as mundane as an unbalanced power load but it's only a matter of days to restore it back because the infrastructure and source is always there. Besides that, our social order and life in big cities are all organized around electrical power. As much implausible as it seems, even a month long outage would take us to a madmax world order since we can't wind back to 1850's at the snap of a finger. In the absence of electrical power, there would be no universities, no hospitals, no dance clubs, no tv stations, no malls but famine, disease, marauding gangs, plundering, killing rampage and anarchy on the streets. Without making a a reference to such a chaotic world, showing the girls continuing their everyday life with the usual concerns of the modern life is naive and pathetic beyond comprehension.

1914 THE GOOD,acting was low key but suspenseful ,the interaction between spoiled brat sisters touching. The cinematography very good. Made me check my survivalist stockpile while realizing I could survive but could not survive my angry , isolated ,fragmentary, diversified ill prepared America neighborhoods ...that safe zone forest road that those two sister take for granted is a thousand miles away. THE BAD.The narcissism between all the characters (except Dad) was exhausting...maybe mirroring the unraveling American society and how Hollywood is now fixated on male typecasting..rapist,creep or beta male. Now these isolated female slackers eat Rice n Beans for a year while the unseen society over the hills implodes.Both are two self absorbed to bother experimenting with rudimentary forest skillfulness , bitching or pouting for months on end]The selfish defiance statement as the end is how it would end.

areatw I've seen my fair share of dumb apocalypse scenario films, ranging from the far-fetched to the completely implausible, but 'Into the Forest' takes the biscuit. This film is just ludicrous, dreadfully written and featuring characters without a brain cell between them. Anybody with an ounce of common sense would never do what the characters in this film do to survive, in fact they would often do the complete opposite.Why would anybody choose to sleep outside in the rain and freezing cold when they could just sleep inside? Why would anybody in their situation burn their only shelter, and their own home to the ground, and then live inside a tree? And why would anybody desperate to survive waste their valuable time and energy doing bizarre and pointless exercise routines? 'Into the Forest' is one of the dumbest survival films I've ever seen.

Jack Vasen I have applied the spoiler warning to be fair, but I haven't revealed anything that isn't in the parental warnings.There is a lot of darkness and sorrow in this film. To quote Ava: "It just feels like these black waves. And I (sob} swim up to the surface and I think (sob) I'll be OK. I can fight this (sob) and then another black wave comes and I'm just drowning again." There is a rape in this movie and the woman's face is shown through what seems like a long sequence. I am against actually showing rape in movies. In a similar way, I am also against showing explicit torture of anyone. I believe that both of these are too easily exploited.I question the choice to show a topless woman, who only seconds ago could barely move because she wrenched her back, suddenly rise up in bed and nimbly turn so viewers can see her naked breast while she tries to comfort her distraught sister. Taken together, is this art, or exploitation? Since the nudity is not necessary to advance the story, I lean toward exploitation.Beyond these complaints, there are many stupid things in this movie beginning with the blackout that mysteriously lasts forever. But I also refer to stupid choices. For instance, in the sequence leading to the wrenched back, why did this small girl try to lift a rock that a man twice her size could probably not move. There are many more. They are just absurd.I'm sure we all appreciate graphically showing the pig gutting.I did appreciate Ava's desire to respect the baby's rights.