Emily Walker

Its been a year since this movie came out but I hope someone reads this. I’ve taken screenwriting classes and this is honestly like reading a pretentious classmate’s horribly ameuter script that somehow was able to go into production and bag A list actors and a good budget. It’s like it used all of its good scenes for the trailer and the rest of the movie was just flack. Its sad bc I actually thought the plot points and the roles of the characters could have been really cool, but everything just went unanswered and all the characters except the cops didnt have any purpose. The juvie kids run somewhere never to be seen again, the most intriguing character is an alien, but for no reason. The moon is glowing, which is an entirely separate thing from the polar fracking, but that’s also just ignored and not even mentioned by any of the characters at all. And on top of everything, it’s horribly unfunny. The 4th wall breaks weren’t funny, the boring, awkward line delivery wasn’t funny, and neither was the repeating “the dead don’t die” gag that they tried to run. We get it. It simply was too long and this movie wasn’t even two hours. Not to mention the ten minute monologue from the homeless guy that’s obviously a projection of the writer’s own real life views. This really was the cherry on top and let me know that this was simply a film by an edgy, male screenwriter. Wow, the zombies are still obsessed with their phones, wow maybe humans are the true virus, wow, the homeless guy who cut himself off from society knows everything and is the only one who survives (which is probably the writers self insert). Oh, how could I forget the hot ideal babe who drives a cool car and even though she’s traveling with two other guys who are in her league, she’s interested in the nerdy guy who works at a gas station and literally looks like chicken little bc he made a movie reference. Pretentious male writing, that’s all I have to say. I really want to know what the actors thought while they were making this movie, they’ve all been in enough films to know whats good writing and what’s bad.