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The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Incest and terrorism are both horrible. This is a movie that explores both.An Anerican teenager and her English cousin embark on a sexual relationship against the backdrop of WW3 but get separated and she must go on a journey to be reunited after a terror attack in London separates them.Phoned in performances meet flat direction in a movie that doesn't know whether it's trying to be thought provoking, romance or thriller and ends up falling short on all three instead of succeeding at any of them.Pure garbage. AVOID!

Having first watched this film (on DVD) when it was relatively new, I felt the need to return to it in the circumstances of simultaneous territorial gains by ISIL in the Middle East and Russia/Russian-backed rebels in Ukraine. This was a wise move, since the few areas that back then seemed implausible or far-fetched - to a degree - now DO NOT SEEM SO! On that basis, this film rises yet further in my esteem.In the first place, this is the film which begins with an engagingly-bespectacled 14-year-old British eccentric driving his somewhat-older and much-sassier female American cousin to his home from the airport in a litter-strewn Land Rover, only to reach the point two-thirds through the film in which the latter finds the former in the first stages of decay in a body-bag.It will be clear to all that we have quite a hop to make to get from the cutesy beginning to the deadly-serious latter half, but hop it we do - thanks to steadily increasing tension, in the process exploring the importance of nature and the effete futility of many modern habits; the meaning of childhood,life and true love; summer romance turning physical (though handled with a particularly effective - and touching - mixture of gentle eroticism and subtlety) and the vulnerability of the UK as a whole in the wake of a large-scale terrorist attack on London.Somewhere down the line this is a young adult film, yet (in a manner slightly reminiscent of the Dr Who episode "Turn Left") it raises hugely serious, important and very-moving themes, and does so with remarkable honesty and gritty realism, for all that the approach is often minimalistic.It would be easy to try and pick holes here, and presumably there are a few to be found if one tries too hard. But on the whole this superbly-acted and beautifully-set film holds true to its basic philosophy and is as hard to sneer at as it is likely to afford the empathic watcher with a large number of very serious questions beginning with the words "what if...?"

I love this movie and thought it was brilliant. It fits well in the reality of a country suddenly falling apart and also with the possible reality of the nuclear bomb being used by terrorist groups. The declaration of martial law, the separation of boys and girls, the terrorists, the groups of men walking around the country brutalising people... everything is there and brilliantly directed. As for the acting, Daisy and her punk fashion style fits perfectly with her teenage attitude of faking to not care about what happens around her. Piper is great as a little naive girl who can get distracted from a dead body and the reality of war by a bar of chocolate. The boys were acting great. At first, all pretty much carefree in their country then falling apart during the war.

This movie is a bit like Alice in wonderland, surviving a nuclear war. A spoilt, disrespectful and unappreciative Yankee girl, is sent to visit some relatives who live in the English country side, (lovely scenery, lousy story line) and when she arrives, she is collected by her 14 yr old cousin who has driven some 8hrs to pick her up (let's not worry about police and unlawful driving here): straight away this tells you there's something terribly wrong with the whole lot of them, and this is verified by the fact that the aunt is too busy with: whatever: and doesn't make an effort or an appearance, to welcome her niece who's travelled so far to stay with them. There is no uncle, but there is an older male cousin who could gave gone to pick her up, but was otherwise preoccupied with another bird (the feathered type). As I said, the aunt is no where to be seen, the kids are are on their own, and it doesn't take long for the older cousin to strike up an incestuous relationship with the uptight Yankee girl. Then a nuclear bomb goes off in London and the two romantic lovers are separated by the British military, and the second half of the movie is about her trying trying to find him again: I.e Cinderella looking for Prince Charming, and they live happily ever after. Other than some nice nature scenes, this movie is really awful.