Such a frustrating disappointment

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

All things considered it is a Canadian film with a limited budget. So if you take that into consideration it is pretty good. But comparing it to other films it scores a lower score. The story and creating the feel for it was done very well but that is not enough to make it higher than 6/10. the acting was acceptable and the cinematography was above average. Even though it wasn't my favourite film I did like it enough to watch it again. Just for the shear art of the film. Don't get me wrong it is not philosophical or anything but what they were able to do with the little resources they had made it worthwhile. Sometimes when we watch movies we need to judge them for what they are. And like I said already and cant emphasis enough this move is very good for what they had, it just wont be winning any awards any time soon.

For some reason (possibly due to the marketing) people seem to think that The Day is about zombies. It's not. It doesn't even feature a slightly hungry vampire. It's totally UN-supernatural (unless you count the fact that the world has - technically - come to an end and everyone's living in a post-apocalyptic landscape).Five survivors take refuge in a farmhouse which basically doesn't belong to them. Soon, those who own it come for what they believe is theirs. Carnage ensues.First of all I have to mention 'the look' of this film. I know it's meant to be bleak, but the film-makers have gone to the added length of basically draining all the colour from the footage. It certainly does the trick. The atmosphere is definitely bleak. During the night scenes, you might as well be watching a black and white film. This will appeal to some, others may find it a little annoying.After a (very!) slow start, the five characters (of whom we get to know and care for reasonably well) come under siege from the owners of the farmhouse (apparently, in an earlier draft they were zombies). This is, of course, when the majority of the action starts. Although, it comes well into the final third of the movie, making the 'climax' shorter than you might expect.The Day has a kind of '28 Days Later' look and feel to it (helped by the pretty good musical score) and plays out like Assault on Precinct 13.I've seen a lot of reviewers raving about The Day, but, despite a few nice touches here and there (plus some bits that actually surprised a hardened film-goer like myself), I never thought it was that much of a classic.In short, it's not bad. If you're looking for a post-apocalyptic version of Precinct 13 then this one could be for you.

The Day is quite impressive. From its drained color to its standoff in the house the film creates its own space in a post-apocalyptic world that seems like another story from same future as The Road. (No animals, dead flora, cannibals.) All of the actors give strong performances but Ashley Bell is a real standout in a performance even better than The Last Exorcist films. She is an actress that creeps up on you... literally both in this film and in the Last Exorcist she seems mousy, almost dismissible to begin with. Then she does something and you can't take your eyes off of her. I don't think she's everyone's cup of tea. But by the time she walks off into the distance at the end she is a dark samurai in the New Dark Age. I, for one, wanted to see where she would go next and whether she could fully recover her humanity. The Day seemed like introduction to her story.

This is a WWE film. The people on the Cover (AVATAR) of the movie are actually the bad guys, and the description describes them. In the same mysterious apocalyptic catastrophe that effected "The Road" and "HELL" a group of scavengers descends on an Abandoned Farm House. They trigger some booby traps that alert them in this world, with Cut-Throat lil' girls who grow into decapitating young women, they realize the house was bait and they're prey and the predators are on their way. instead of escaping they decide to hold off and fight them off. The bodies start to pile-up more than enough for cannibals to feed on and fight anther day. But instead they don't want food they want murder kill em all. on one side a charismatic cult leader on the other a desperate bands of strangers both knowing they have to kill the other so they don't have to look over their shoulder.This is a WWE film, a disturbing WWE film. You expect them to grab a wrestler say he's a scientistiifc experiment or alien commando, then grab another wrestler and chase him down,some side effects car chase movies over. this was actually a thought provoking mess of a movie that you never knew which way it was going.This is a WWE film. The people on the Cover (AVATAR) of the movie are actually the bad guys, and the description describes them. In the same mysterious apocalyptic catastrophe that effected "The Road" and "HELL" a group of scavengers descends on an Abandoned Farm House. They trigger some booby traps that alert them in this world, with Cut-Throat lil' girls who grow into decapitating young women, they realize the house was bait and they're prey and the predators are on their way. instead of escaping they decide to hold off and fight them off. The bodies start to pile-up more than enough for cannibals to feed on and fight anther day. But instead they don't want food they want murder kill em all. on one side a charismatic cult leader on the other a desperate bands of strangers both knowing they have to kill the other so they don't have to look over their shoulder.This is a WWE film, a disturbing WWE film. You expect them to grab a wrestler say he's a scientific experiment or alien commando, then grab another wrestler and chase him down,some side effects car chase movies over. this was actually a thought provoking mess of a movie that you never knew which way it was going.