Kris Wetton

I am not going to waste time and effort attempting eloquence or in being floriferous, I will simply say that if I have ever been more disappointed by a movie I cannot recall when. The first few minutes created a mysterious and eerie ambience and felt promising, everything thereafter crashed as spectacularly as the oil tanker and left me wishing I had actually left the movie behind and gone to bed early. Julia did what she always does and given the wealth of acting chops on show (Hawke Bacon and Mahershala Ali, I expected something SIGNIFICANTLY different. I have never used the word hate in a review before, but I absolutely HATED the thinly disguised racist overtones that pervaded and the VERY many attempted metaphorical hooks into the current enviro-political state of the world, and for me it took this from the realms of being a bad movie all the way to being a desperately awful movie that fails miserably as (not so) subtle metaphor. Aside from the glaring technical inaccuracies (Tanker, cars and plane crashes....) it was as disjointed as it was rambling and where the opening had built suspense in a similar fashion to that of War of the Worlds, the rest of the movie was not about an unfolding disaster, it WAS the disaster. I never recommend people avoid watching a movie as taste and preference are individual, but in this case I am happy to make an exception.