Wow, well....
So very classic woman with (or pregnant with) child has to overcome some sort of apocalypse and make it to safety.. a la birdbox or the quiet place. So yh that's the story in a nutshell.
Now, when I say lazy writing I mean that in every sense of the word. There is NOTHING new here... nothing. Not even an attempt.
After a while I actually started laughing at the huge time jumps. Anytime something got too complicated to film or the plot hole got toooo large...boom...the protagonist wakes up and a significant amount of time has passed and we just need to accept that something happened off screen.
The characters...oh the characters. I've seen better written NPCs in video games. No humans behave in this way. Has the script writer never actually met another person, ever?
At one point I noticed that the male protagonists hair was pristine. Like fresh trim...and I was like...'i thought they had been hiking through the forrests' and then I looked at his immaculately clean yellow top and all their unbroken clean gear. The costume department hadn't bothered to make anyone's outfits look 'lived in'. The should go and watch other (good) post apocalyptic movies to get an idea.
I never once worried about the characters not having enough food or supplies.
I just don't know what this movie was meant to be about. Like what story it wanted to tell, person it wanted us to relate to, lesson to learn or warning to heed. Apart from the obvious... robots will take over.
Finally one last thing that annoyed me no end. Why didn't she give the Polaroid of the 3 of them to the baby with the paperwork. I'm only an aunty but if my niece was going to be shipped off....I would want her to have a picture of her biological family, so as a mother... surely she would want that too. And don't get me started on what was the need to burn his picture? Like I get it...a symbolic moving on...but really?!
And the fact that he died off screen when he was also a main protagonist is mind blowing. Main protagonist as in we saw things from his perspective as well...not just following her and what she knows and see's. Well at least we did, for the first half of the movie...and then we just didn't anymore...he became an accessory (as someone else pointed out) and I don't know if this was done on purpose or just again sloppy film making.
I could go on about its unforgettable sound track, it's inconsistent enemies (are they zombie androids or strategic masterminds?) And the comical placement of two silent but stern bodyguards next to literally ANY character of importance....but I'm going to stop now.