I genuinely think that this was scripted by A.I. and they used a big name like Nic Cage to entice people and distract them from the horrible writing and acting (Cage also has all of 5 lines before being conveniently incapacitated for the rest of the film lol).
There is barely any story, no reasoning behind why and decisions are made, everything is disjointed and the characters are never fleshed out enough to care about them.
The monsters, if you could call them that are SO goofy looking! You look up the movie title online and get shown this awesome, crazy scary monster - but when you finally see them in the file, they just looks like goofy, lizard geese, with dull teeth? Genuinely so funny! Do you know why this creature looks so ridiculous? Its literally been based on Goofy, from Mickey Mouse. Do I honestly need to say any more?
There are key moments that make you think are important to the movie, that are leading you somewhere interesting and pertinent- but they amount to nothing!
- The monsters knock on the doors in specific ways? Any particular reason? Nope! Mentioned once and never explained or had any meaning again
- They split apart when they kill humans? Could there be a bigger meaning as to why? Nope! No follow up, no reasoning - couldn't even see what really happened.
- One was captured by the son and was hidden! OOo are they going to experiment on it! Will it teach them something!? NOPE! Just gets killed in the next scene, nothing learned. Just dead. No reason.
- Oh a tree! That the young girl was tied to when she was 8 to keep safe! Will this bare any significance to the plot? Nope! A pretty big build up, for zero yield.
- Weird, rushed, lame ass "love" story. Didn't amount to anything, or have any relevance to the story. Oh and the girl is totally okay laughing and having a nice time after both parents and whole family died! Like, as she buried them. Laughing.
Like, wtf? It's like reading a children's make believe story that's just them regurgitating things from the recent movies they've watched because they couldn't comprehend proper story telling; to follow through. It's like the creator just picked random ideas from a hat and mashed them all together, while looking up a Wikipedia article of "how do you make a story?".
If you want a laugh, and something to make fun of - yah, this is a movie for you my friend. But! If you enjoy proper cinema, post apocalyptic creature features, I promise you will be really dissapointed.