AFFF log

man faces childhood fear and agressor just before imminent destruction of humankind
Links: AFFF / imdb

The setting is grim (good colourgrading), the characters good enough. Yet the result seems flawed, it sports a crack and falls apart in two separate entities which I fail to blend together.

I can very well be missing the point here. The film can raise questions like: what to do when the end is near? Do anything at all? Why confront your biggest nightmare when you're about to die? But if they're even asked at all, they hardly seemed to be answered.

Do I find the title misleading and is the meteorite a mere trick of plot, leverage for the story? No. I refuse to believe that. It must be important but I have difficulty immersing myself in it, it fails to grab me by the head and pull me along.

With the end nearby all things become non-sensical or terribly to the point. Do the big questions of life still matter or do they crumble at such times, revealing themselves to be nothing more than dust in a fancy shape. The setting of this film is a great vehicle for such elements (and don't get me wrong: they don't have to be answered as long as they make you see new aspects in either questior or possible answer(s)) but it seems to lack them.

Rating: 6