Simply Perfect

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It's a very good film, but it's not really a thriller or post apocalypse, unless going without TV & internet is your idea of that. Set slightly in the future the whole electrical supply system fails, was probably AI Smart without people who could fix or switch it. The real story is about the sisters, their love and bond.I'm a man and could understand that was what it wanted to portray. Those who hate it seem to be usual survivalists freaks, you need more guns and ammo. Read a couple of those, one said " you can't read how to survive from books ", on the contrary you can, what berries, fruits and roots are edible or not. Another said " didn't understand why they killed that animal ", it was read out to the audience and sister. A certain vitamin deficiency is due to lack of meat and dairy products, they'd been living on rice, beans and berries. If you want Mad Max adventure look elsewhere, you'll hate it. If you want a story of two sisters, very well portrayed, facing hardship and surviving together, it's well worth watching.

Like the title says, this is one of the best post apocalyptic movies I have seen. It was so realistically portrayed. I felt the emotions, and felt like I was living through it with the two sisters. There was such an amazing connection between the lead actresses, and their dynamic relationship through the movie was incredibly authentic and fascinating. I would agree with some of the negative reviews that some of the choices the sisters made during the movie probably weren't the best, but I think that gives the movie some of its reality. The end, well, this is where it goes a bit wrong for me. The logic explained in the movie is a bit off putting, and I do see it as a waste. I don't want to spoil what happens so that is all I will say about it. All in all, still an 8 out of 10 for me, and I would highly recommend it if you are looking for a good story about the human will through adversity.

This film should have been titled 'Hanging About in a House for Months With No Electricity'. Only in the final couple of minutes does the story start to do what the title promises, when the girls actually go Into the Forest. Following them in there, tracking their story of survival, might have been interesting. As it is, very little happens in the big modern house in the wood. One of the girls dances a lot, but misses her music. The other thinks about going off with her character-free boyfriend, but changes her mind. There is one nasty, very violent rape, dislocated from the rest of the story. The reason for the apocalyptic power cut is never convincingly explained and while the months tick by (we know this via helpful captions) the women are unchanged - even their hair stays the same, with one of them sporting the same razor-sharp cut after eight months that she had at the beginning. The season does not change either - three months, six months, whatever, it is still May. As for the ending, why would they set fire to the place? What possible reason was there to do that? (I wondered if it was an attempt to imitate the ending in Housekeeping, a brilliant and totally different film). Only two good things in this: the beautiful forest, what little we saw of it; and Evan Rachel Wood's beautiful face.

In the near future, Nell (Ellen Page) and Eva (Evan Rachel Wood) are sisters living with their father (Callum Keith Rennie) in the isolated woods. A power outage strikes the country. After 10 days, they drive into town to find no gas and a threatening darkness descending upon the world. The father dies in a chainsaw accident and the girls are forced to deal with the ongoing power outage.I don't want to give Eva an out and dismiss her actions as simple girlie inferiority. There is an issue with a lack of common sense from Eva. I have issues with other characters as well. I don't buy Eli walking to Boston and leaving Nell for a hope for a job. I do buy one thing and one thing only, the chemistry between Page and Wood. These are two solid actresses and they present good work as these characters. They have nice sibling chemistry and the movie flows well from that spring.