A Disappointing Continuation

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The only thing I enjoyed about this movie was the concept. I was hooked by the cover art and the synopsis on the back of the DVD and so I rented it. I was very disappointed in the low budget quality and poor acting. I could have made a better movie using my old mini-DV camera. If "B" quality doesn't bother, perhaps you could get into this. I can think of hundreds of cool ideas to take this idea - the idea that only 180 something people are left on the planet. Think of the infrastructure - buildings, roads....THINGS, you could pillage from billions of abandoned buildings! The film seemed to barely touch on some of the essentials you'd be forced to deal with right away, like how to sustain your food and shelter. Let's hope maybe a bigger studio or something buys the rights to this story.

a lot of heart, couldn't have asked for more. many faux documentaries have terrible acting (overdramatised), but the actors in this film were so believable sometimes I forgot this was fictional! it was refreshing to see a movie that actually showed positivity in an 'apocalyptic' story, rather than crazy rape scenes or murder (not saying this stuff wouldn't exist, of course). but i have to say i really appreciated the humanity of it all, and it just takes into account that when all is lost, people can still be good, collaborating together to improve their lives, like they have always done historically. 2 scenes really stood out in my mind: the first being that of when the one group found the man murdered in their path. even though most of them feared for their safety around this man when he was alive (and some of them wanted him dead anyway), the emotions expressed in the group was not just of relief, but also deep sadness. the second scene that i found pretty profound was the teenage boy who never experienced the nostalgic past that all the adults seem to long for, and it is presumed that he was the 'executioner' of the dead man. the boy didn't do it out of rage or contempt, but probably more for the reason that none of the adults could or wanted to do it (or maybe to some degree, he understood that it would hurt much less for him to do it). he was symbolic of the new world, coloring the skies with every shade of gray.

Documentary about the last people left in San Francisco after a plague has wiped out almost all of the population of the world. Good but very imperfect little film that works best when it has the people talking about what it was like during the bad old days as well as how they are getting along. In the small human moments the film shines and you feel as though the world has indeed ended. The problem is that the film wobbles outside of that, the city is too clean, it runs counter to what the people are saying. The film also wobbles when the film drifts out of the city. While I like the idea of seeing whats outside the city, there is something about those sections that just doesn't work. If you can get a chance to see the film and are intrigued by the idea about what happens after, I'd give it a shot, though I'd try to pay no more than a rental. (I should mention that Mythbuster Adam Savage plays one of the survivors who is very much like he is on the show.)

To my mind the most basic problem with this film is it's failure to envision how such a group of people might chose to govern themselves. In fact there doesn't seem to be any form of group governance at all. It's as if the film makers had no idea that people ever lived in communities before the industrial age. We are presented with a group of characters who are concerned with teaching piano, reviewing art, and building museums. No one is farming, no one is hunting, no one is milking cows, and everyone is well dressed and clean.I came away from this film wondering why everything, and everyone, is so clean. From the group home of women and children who spend their time teaching piano and putting out the good china to the loaner who walked out of the city five years previous to live in the trees, everyone is showered, combed, brushed and shaved. The city, deserted as it is, is clean. Is there a team of rogue street sweepers out there keeping the place up? I have a fascination with TEOTWAWKI films, and I was willing to give this little move a try. But there's nothing convincing about the environment, or the characters. I wish the film makers would have looked at history and how people live before the rise of modern civilization, they would have made a better film if they had.