[jekylljuice]

I remembered that we did have a thread dedicated to this movie, and thought that now might be a good time for me to contribute something to it. As I said in the Last Movie You Watched Thread, I finally saw this for the first time last night, and having had a bit more time to dwell upon my feelings now, I do think that it had potential as a concept, but that the human element seriously let it down. I think that my main issue here would be that a pretty fundamental plot point - the main characters going back into the damaged city and putting themselves in immense danger on the off-chance that another character might still be alive - felt more like a plot contrivence for the sake of further dragging out the scenario than it did a believable consequence of their characterisation and interactions. They didn't come off as being particularly likeable or engaging characters, and there was very little in what we saw to suggest that they genuinely cared about one another beyond the demands that the story made of them - I dunno, maybe it had something to do with the acting, but there was a real void in this group of characters where you felt some kind of chemistry or heartfelt emotion should have been. All in all, they just didn't strike me as the self-sacrificing type.

Not to be nasty, but personally I think that this might have worked a bit better as one of those simulation theme park rides than as a feature-lengthed movie, wherein it's more acceptable for characterisation to be secondary to jolty thrills. Eh, that's just my opinion.

I did quite like the rats and the horses who showed up here and there. Let's hope that they managed to get out alive somehow.