Sadly Over-hyped

Powerful

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

+1SPOILER ALERT (not really an alert as there is nothing to "spoil", but hey...)This film can be most positively described as torpid, cinematic drivel. There is no plot (none worth noting) and no real acting, but there are many well filmed shot of the woods, so it gets two stars for cinematography. The costuming and scene sets are laughable. I want Fingleton's brand of laundry detergent, such white pillowcases... lovely. The main character is an uninteresting, incompetent bungler who has been lucky enough to last seven years alone in a post-apocalyptic woods without being killed. He isn't a "survivalist" at all and has no defensive skills, rather he blunders about without much of a plan tending to a child's garden which could never support him (designed by people who don't know what a subsistence garden looks like), regularly leaves himself completely undefended (2 shells are nothing), never attempts to find or construct new weaponry or build any sort of defences apart from cans on a string (7 years and he can't make a single spear or trap). He's only alive because he hides. There's hardly any dialogue, which is probably a mercy as there is no real plot; it's all about maudy looks and Fingleton has just one expression, the face of a frightened weasel. (Credit where due, Goth has mentally challenged and bored down pat, what range.) No one is attractive, but they all have good bodies. Perhaps that is realistic in an apocalyptic world, but it's so a la mode to "fix" actors with unattractive faces by sending them to the gym, that it grates. I realise that apparently faces are irrelevant these days because audiences find any actor with a well muscled bodies attractive, but they should be able to actually act; of course without lines or a plot, what can one do? When the other "bad guys" finally catch the "survived for a bit by hidingist" for dinner it's a great relief; at least he finally has a purpose. Its a pity they missed Goth and the script writer...

I just don't care about him doing stuff if it doesn't connect much with the plot. The characters were also primitive and unlikable. I'm watching someone cleaning their butt, beating their meat, collecting stuff to put into a tin can for no educational or plot-observable reason, and it's all so dreadfully boring. There are survival videos which show you how to survive, and there are survival movies which give you plots with actual circulation. This has neither and is like watching someone do their laundry. I suggest disregarding this gratuitous movie and finding something else.

What was the point of showing this guys butt as he washed himself up and then him playing with himself? and I mean these weren't quick scenes they dragged on. Except the last one I turned it off I'm not watching that. This isn't a movie it's a gay porn. I have no idea what this movie was trying to be and never will. If you want to make a movie about "survival" start with an actual plot. I can do without the unnecessary stuff thrown in this garbage.

You dive in the world of a lonely guy, trying to survive after an apocalyptic event. It's not a fast action movie, there is a lot of tension from the start till the end. It's not about big explosions and guns, rather interactions between this guys and 2 strangers.Its an excellent movie but don't watch it if you re a bit depressed, it's in the same vein than the excellent "The road". Dark and hopeless.