4/10 for me at the min, but can appreciate why others might rate it highly. It was kind of good at times, but I just couldn't let go of The Last of Us, the leads here, including a guy called Joel, however wielding cameras in this case, the movie also minus the mushroom-infected zombie people; however, maybe I'm wrong about that. There are some great bits in it, but overall I'm just not sure how I feel about it.
I think I wanted to see a lot more destruction at the start, rather more than seemingly untouched cityscapes, for example. It's not like I expected New York to look like Godzilla just visited, but to see it still standing as it was here, and things like the internet still alive, and so on, kept taking me out of the movie a little bit more often than I would have liked.
The road movie aspects were better, much better at times, but then the end didn't feel all that well-earned. It does feel alarmingly plausible, I'll give it that, with consideration to the London Riots in 2011, and the riot at the US Capitol in 2021. It's clear in living memory, for me, that something like this could potentially flare up. Made me wonder if I was just watching it under a veil of denial at times.
As much as I didn't love it, I thought it was too short, and may have made for a better mini-series, then again it might have just been 10 minutes too short, with consideration to a very rushed ending. I'd definitely recommend it, even after giving it 4/10, as it's one of those ones that's difficult to be sure about in my case.
The movie most definitely isn't apolitical. It pretends to be, but very clearly isn't. I think they just said it was apolitical in order to get most people in to see it.
The movie was very careful to demonstrate that the Western Forces side was VERY diverse, whereas the opposite side was for the most part white. Key death moments concerned the death of black or Asian people, including a black guy set alight with arms tied up in a tire, and some particular shoot downs of either black or Asian people. There was a non WFs execution of soldiers we couldn't see, because they covered their heads up with bags for some reason. The suicide bomber at the beginning appeared to be a white woman. There were dead white bodies, civilians, here there and everywhere, diverse piles of bodies, but the featured deaths were mainly black and Asian.
It felt to me like the seemingly diverse Western Forces were for the most part fighting white men. It was clearly a DEI feature, and has certainly gone the way of mainstream media in that regard. Didn't feel very balanced to me!
In short it wasn't a great movie in my estimation, boring for the most part, aside from a couple of pit stops on route to Charlottesville.
I think I wanted to see a lot more destruction at the start, rather more than seemingly untouched cityscapes, for example. It's not like I expected New York to look like Godzilla just visited, but to see it still standing as it was here, and things like the internet still alive, and so on, kept taking me out of the movie a little bit more often than I would have liked.
The road movie aspects were better, much better at times, but then the end didn't feel all that well-earned. It does feel alarmingly plausible, I'll give it that, with consideration to the London Riots in 2011, and the riot at the US Capitol in 2021. It's clear in living memory, for me, that something like this could potentially flare up. Made me wonder if I was just watching it under a veil of denial at times.
As much as I didn't love it, I thought it was too short, and may have made for a better mini-series, then again it might have just been 10 minutes too short, with consideration to a very rushed ending. I'd definitely recommend it, even after giving it 4/10, as it's one of those ones that's difficult to be sure about in my case.
The movie most definitely isn't apolitical. It pretends to be, but very clearly isn't. I think they just said it was apolitical in order to get most people in to see it.
The movie was very careful to demonstrate that the Western Forces side was VERY diverse, whereas the opposite side was for the most part white. Key death moments concerned the death of black or Asian people, including a black guy set alight with arms tied up in a tire, and some particular shoot downs of either black or Asian people. There was a non WFs execution of soldiers we couldn't see, because they covered their heads up with bags for some reason. The suicide bomber at the beginning appeared to be a white woman. There were dead white bodies, civilians, here there and everywhere, diverse piles of bodies, but the featured deaths were mainly black and Asian.
It felt to me like the seemingly diverse Western Forces were for the most part fighting white men. It was clearly a DEI feature, and has certainly gone the way of mainstream media in that regard. Didn't feel very balanced to me!
In short it wasn't a great movie in my estimation, boring for the most part, aside from a couple of pit stops on route to Charlottesville.
