How sad is this?

best movie i've ever seen.

A lot of fun.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

I honestly went into this move with an open mind I understand the director was going to have a different version of the end of the world & the fact it's an indie movie. I got super excited that willem Defoe was in it but all in all he couldn't carry the movie due to the all the energy that was in the movie was all him every single character in the movie was dry & did not do their job. I understand people are gonna have different takes on the end of the world but this was silly on many parts too much to even label but I would've preferred either a comet or a nuclear holocaust or a comet to kill all life, I mean seriously the ozone layer depleting is the way the world ends that's worse than that Wesley snipes line in passenger 57 "always bet on black" cues music I will super frisbee this movie if I ever see a DVD of it

The world is coming to an end at 4:44 am EST as solar radiation will destroy the ozone layer (or something non-sensible like that). Skye (Shanyn Leigh) and Cisco (Willem Dafoe) spend the last day and night in their NYC loft.I'm not what is the most annoying about this movie. The undecipherable science that is dropped piece-meal in this movie. The mumbling craziness coming out of Dafoe. The religious spiritual ramblings that goes on here. Or the wonky acting being performed by Shanyn Leigh. This is basically a high concept low production film school project. It's not real enough to be compelling. It's not surreal enough to be interesting. At least we find out that we can still get take-out on the last day on earth.

The human race is destined to be eradicated from the planet at 4:44 a.m. due to the depletion of the ozone layer. Aging actor Cisco (a strong and intense performance by Willem Dafoe) and his much younger painter lover Skye (a fine and affecting portrayal by the pretty Shanyn Leigh) spend the last night on Earth together in their Manhattan high-rise apartment. Writer/director Abel Ferrara brings a subdued and reflective sensibility to the compelling story as he shows the characters dealing with the inevitability of life coming to a close by attempting to make amends for past indiscretions, saying goodbye to family and friends (Cisco telling his estranged daughter farewell via Skype rates as one of the single most heartbreaking moments in the picture), working on one last piece of art (Skye feverishly paints her final canvas throughout the course of the narrative), having sex, and getting high on drugs. Keeping the focus low-key and intimate by centering on two people, Ferrara manages to bring an extra gut-wrenching poignancy to the fairly plausible premise. Real-life newscaster Pat Kiernan has an especially moving scene in which he bids adieu to his viewers on live television. Popping up in nice bits are Natasha Lyonne as the saucy Tina, Anita Pallenberg as Skye's bitter mother, and Paul Hipp as Cisco's supportive ex-junkie brother Noah. The potent mood of doom and dread reaches a harrowing apex towards the end, with the uncompromisingly downbeat conclusion packing a real devastating punch. Both Ken Kelsch's sharp cinematography and the bluesy score by Francis Kuipers are up to par. A unique and interesting oddball entry in the apocalyptic science fiction genre.

I have criticized other reviewers in the past for being uncharitable and negative as I have always made a practice of looking for something good in every film. But THIS one has absolutely NOTHING good about it - and, if anyone says it has, then he/she needs urgent psychiatric help. I'm truly sorry folks, but I can't be anything BUT negative!A friend brought "4:44 Last Day On Earth" around to my place last night as something to watch after a few of us had a barbecue together. Well, eventually, at 8:44 PM, after two friends had fallen sleep (and I wasn't at all surprised) we decided to end the world early rather than die of boredom! I have checked the "May contain spoilers" box although I don't honestly believe it is possible to spoil this film! It is already an utter load of crap - NOTHING could make it worse!As the cover blurb tells potential viewers, this is supposed to be the story of a somewhat unmatched couple (Willem Dafoe and the much younger and virtually unknown Shanyn Leigh - who's career won't have been done ANY good by participating in THIS) covering their final hours before the end of the world. No actual indication of HOW the world is going to end at the precise time of 4:44 AM is given - which leaves one wondering how it was determined. There is some talk about the final and total depletion of the ozone layer but that wouldn't bring about a sudden end that could be exactly predicted to the minute. Neither would the melting of the polar ice caps as a result of global warming (also briefly mentioned). Actually, there are only two scenarios that I can think of that COULD do that. One is some sort of religious prophesy rather like the Seventh Day Adventist one for October 22, 1844 or the Mayan one for December 21st 2012 (both of which, as you may have noticed, didn't happen! Surprise, surprise!!). And, since there are at least two dozen major religions around the world, each with manifold denominations, only a relatively small percentage of the world's population would even give such a prophesy credence. The second - and much more credible - is an interplanetary collision where the impact time WOULD be precisely predictable and the severity calculable. However, neither of those is even mentioned which leaves the viewer mystified (to say the least) at to what the film is all about anyway.If anything, the religious scenario is the more plausible one for this movie (and there ARE several real-footage clips of people gathered in St Peters Square in Rome and Dalai Lama interviews etc.) because, with less than twelve hours to go, there are taxis and other traffic, hookers and beggars all normally going about their business on the streets of New York and very little panic behaviour evident. I can tell you as a one-time taxi driver, there's no way I would be working at such a psychologically or financially unrewarding job during my final hours of life! (I imagine hooking would be a lot more fun!) So it seems obvious that not everyone in this film believes that the end is nigh (again, surprise, surprise!!!)The beginning of the movie has some promise of going somewhere as a soft-porn romance (if your imagination can stretch that far!) but that is apparently only there to grab the viewers' attention because it doesn't go anywhere.As I have said, eventually, as we realised it really wasn't going anywhere, we turned 4:44 off, woke our sleeping friends and watched a much better movie (that wasn't hard!). However, this morning (Sunday), I decided to see how the damned thing would turn out (call me a masochist!!) and picked it up where we left off - which happened to be about ten minutes from the end - if you could call it that. In reality, there WAS no end. I never found out what was going to end the world (which was the only reason I decided to punish myself further).Skye (Leigh) was supposed to be a painter in this movie but I would venture that a chimpanzee would have made a better one! All she did was pour and splash acrylic paint onto unstretched canvasses laid on the floor and roll on them whilst having sex with Cisco (Dafoe) and then (presumably as there wasn't much time left for natural drying) direct as many fan heaters as she could lay her hands on to dry them. This, of course, had me asking why since there wasn't going to be anyone to look at them!I could go on but, to be honest, there wouldn't be much point because, by the time IMDb have approved this review, the world will probably have ended and no one will read it anyway!! However, just in case the world doesn't end at 4:44 tomorrow morning and you DO happen to read this review (and I do NOT want to sound conceited here at all), you will probably find it a lot more interesting than the movie!!Have you got the message here? Just in case you haven't and the world DOESN'T actually end, I will spell it out for you. DON'T WASTE ONE SECOND ON THIS GARBAGE!!