For a movie that uses mostly image to convey the story rather than dialog, it's rather bare-boned.
Real impressive scenery is lacking, and impressive survival tactics that lead you to believe these people indeed survived an incredibly tough disaster for ten years, are virtually absent.
Why do people live in tents, makeshift shelter and small caravans? No idea. They literally have a perfectly good house IN the movie.. at walkable distance. With a wood oven, a functioning tap (?) and even large caliber guns?! yet they choose to use sticks for self defense and a few stacked logs for a house
What was the reason for this? It feels unenticing; it really does not make the most exciting cinematography. You can convey the post-apocalyptic ''feel'' outside of the house, they don't have to live like savages.
Same with the scary ''wolves'', at least use wolf dogs.. you can clearly see they are just small shepherd dogs. They play quite a big part in the movie, seemingly being the factor everyone is mute as any sound makes them come in running like a fat kid to an ice cream truck, but they only sound scary, they look very friendly and for a supposedly incredibly vicious pack they really are a small one at that.
Story wise, it's quite basic; story of revenge for his father and a rescue for his girl who is dangerously ill due to infection. Albeit a bit cliche, if done right fair enough. But there are no more twists, no sub plots, no character developments, just some randoms kill his dad and his girl is ill.
Then he goes out to retrieve the medicine the perpetrators who murdered his father also stole, but locks his girlfriend in with a log. Why? What if he doesn't come back? If she needs to go to the toilet? Find water? No clue, there is a scene where the wolves find her but just a few barks and thats that, and by the time he gets back she's magically doing great, is outside and on her feet.
So a great part of the story was quite literally for nothing
Spoiler:
He gets his revenge.
This seemingly inexperienced young man with just a pocked knife just straight up kills 5 murderous scavengers armed with large blades and goes John Wick, murdering them one by one, yet most of the action is missing and the action that does happen is brief, mostly leaving crucial parts to your imagination.
Yet what is shown is incompetence where he survives by luck rather than skill, leaving an automatic rifle behind, same with a revolver, forgetting to put ammunition in said rifle and setting off a trap wire which he knew was there.
Backstory wise, well.. what backstory? The world ended abruptly, everything is winter now and there is no food, people are eating each other.
Oh, but the literally fucking movie starts with them hunting a fat fucking pig, which they ''lose'' after tracking it for 2 minutes, but not before seeing a fish near the marsh where they lose the pig and then a couple of minutes later a bunch of wolves passes them.
So everyone is starving yet there is an abundance of animals thriving in the not-so-dead forest, not exactly Mad Max where the world is a literal desert, is it?
Really, it's not all bad, the actors have mostly done a convincing job, the shots and editing is really not that bad
But this movie could have gotten so much more grit by adding a few extra layers with a beefier backstory, more realistic survival, a bit more elaborate story with a build up towards the show-down with the scavengers