balatino Of course the scenario has been touched on in many other films. There is also some real love from the film makers visible towards their film. But, as most of the time the movie suffers from their stereotypical protagonists.

hghiran It moved me. It shows what's in deep souls . It could be happening in near future. One of the best movies ever. The girl's play is so convincing. Michael is the best of all.I can't understand the ratting and it's sale. The movie was well directed. well played. so realistic and convincing.It didn't get the attention it deserved.

ritera1 Very powerful beginning as we're thrust in the first moments of a nuclear attack from---we don't know. Frantic terror was achieved. Then we're immediately in the horror of it all juxtaposed with no immediate physical threat. I say that because they're not being chased down by a monster or serial killer. But there is the deadly radiation outside the locked door. There was a problem in that it should have been a slow boil inside these walls between the people who have survived but had their lives taken from them. But it wasn't.Someone somewhere probably said there must be some sort of external threat. A gun battle. Quckly some sort of bad guys with hazmat suits show up and kidnap a little girl. They're fully prepared and equipped mere hours after the attack. But who are these guys and what is their purpose?A decent fight with those bad guys, although the others take the girl.But never mind that the previous scene had the whole building above them falling down all over them. The bad guys had managed to somehow create a flat surface between the doorway and their "lab". As the opening established, there was a short hallway to the door from a winding stairwell. They would have needed a substantial amount of earth moving equipment for several hours to achieve anything close to this.Okay, so we find out that they're doing experiments of some sort but we forever drop that ball because they want to weld our heroes into their prison. Why wasn't the bad guys guarding that doorway, being that they just lost several soldiers?But just based on pure b-movie adventure, there were worse ways to waste 20 minutes.So we're back to the slow boil, which was better than average. Mom goes nuts for losing daughter. Guy goes nuts from cutting up body (which was effective but probably not necessary). As they start to starve, we find out that the Super is hiding supplies. One of our initial heroes quickly devolves and tortures the Super, thus becoming the head honcho. After this, we glide for awhile in debauchery with no real fluctuation. Then suddenly the only other woman has enough and stages a coup, which leads to the effective and tragic conflict. I was a bit surprised at her selfishness. But I did see where she needed the suit and that one of the other two would have taken it from her. The problem I had was the potential that was lost. There was not enough character development. This was suppose to be a conflict with these characters. The only real change was from Milo Ventimiglia's character, but cursory. Lauren German was supposedly our hero, but was a general overview with no real movement. They did create some compelling characters, but to no real extent.

schultzalan-1 This is a disturbing, thought-provoking, well-made film that has a huge fatal flaw to it. The characters are incredibly underwritten. This is a film that exemplifies the need to examine the characters life before the disaster occurs sending their life into a tail-spin. Unfortunately this film starts at the disaster, a nuclear explosion, before hinting at some of the characters pasts. And these are the only characters that we come to slightly know and care about. That is about 5 characters in a film where 9 characters play pivotal roles. And you only get to know those 5 characters slightly. The problem here is that 2/3 of the way through the movie is that the movie doesn't connect us with its characters. Its intention is to show the moral ambiguity of these characters and how they turn from civilized human beings to a "Lord of the Flies style group cannibalizing on the weaker members. And that's fine. I love "Lord of the Flies". But the director avoids allowing you to know the characters fully and that is a problem. If you don't know what the characters were like before hand, how can you be emotionally involved in where they end up? The director doesn't present the full spectrum here. Those who are given a slight backstory are very well played, especially by Rosanna Arquette as a mother who allows herself to be degraded to the worst possible degree in order to survive. But some of the characters are so thinly written that they begin psychotic and end up psychotic and you have no idea of what their connection is to any of the others or why they are there in the first place. And that is what hurts this film. You end up asking "Who are these people" 2/3 of the way through because you are not allowed to know them. It's a well made, well-acted film that trods along familiar lines but does so with intelligence. The problem is it doesn't want you to connect to it.