Three days until the end of the world - not a good time for starting to trust other people and their intentions.
Links: AFFF / imdb
One of those "what if..." films. This film is more a "normal" thriller about a man trying to protect his family than a sci-fi film about the end of the world, but it utilizes that concept in its advantage.
Rating: 8
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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
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
This is a gem (IMO). The movie is set in Spain, three days before an astroid impact, which will almost certain wipe out all life on Earth. In a village we follow a man, Ale, and his mother. They hear the news and deceide to go to a house in the countryside where the family of Ale's brother lives. In the chaos that the news of the upcoming end causes there is a prison breakout and a child murderer who has to settle something with Ale and his family heads to them. The movie tells about the encounter with Ale, his family and the child murderer.
Technically this movie is great. The colors they use to show the dusty Spanish summer makes you feel the heat. Also the colors used at night are adding to the depressing background of the nearing end. The characters are believable. There aren't many special effects, but those used where good, not over the top. There are some minor meteorite impacts, before the big one ends it all.
Rating : 10
Technically this movie is great. The colors they use to show the dusty Spanish summer makes you feel the heat. Also the colors used at night are adding to the depressing background of the nearing end. The characters are believable. There aren't many special effects, but those used where good, not over the top. There are some minor meteorite impacts, before the big one ends it all.
Rating : 10