Please don't spend money on this.

Don't Believe the Hype

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

OK the first thang that struck me is that even though the zombies are gone, the human survivors are living in a world with no rule of law whatsoever ever -- yet no one has a proper firearm. Also society has become essentially hunger gatherer, yet no one is banded into group. it is one thing to suspend disbelief and accept zombies as a reality, that is part of every zombie flick, but to present utterly unrealistic social structure or the fact than no one in their right mind would without an AR or at least a glock is absurd.

Extinction feels like a movie that can't decide what it wants to be. Zombie flick or a PG drama about a single Dad bringing up a child. Maybe the writer handed over some scribbled notes and then disappeared.The sets were all well done, with high level production values, but where's the damn story. NOTHING of any interest occurred for long sections at a time. Mostly centring around feeding the kid and listening to her whine. The first hour should have been compressed into 30 minutes.The tension between the men was confusing. Stringing out the audience can be effective if information is fed in appropriate chunks. But we actually need the clues before the end of the film if we're to draw conclusions early enough to care. The 'cliffhanger' wasn't pivotal to the story.On the plus side, I thought the Zombie was excellent. As a hybrid, evolving species it was a formidable hunter despite it's lack of sight. There are no explanations why it might be evolving in this way though. And something that bleeds before it has been injured will probably be weakened, not made stronger.Extinction is a slow film. The only reason a person of my tastes would watch it is for the unique Zombie footage.

at this point, the zombie genre is pretty much played out, so it's never easy trying to come up with a new and interesting take on it, which is where Extinction comes in.the focus of the story is on the 2 male leads, and the little girl who lives with one of them, and despite the fact the 2 men live next door to each other, they have nothing to do with each other due to a falling out many years ago, a mystery you have to work out for yourself as the movie progresses.needless to say, you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out what causes the friction between them, or what the connection between them and the little girl is.although the zombies don't make an appearance often, they are suitably scary when they do, and every scene that features them is terrifyingi honestly thought the human drama would bore me, but i actually found it to be the best part of the whole movie. if you like your zombie movies fast paced with plenty of zombie bashing, then this movie will not be for you, but i enjoyed it. give it a try, you may be pleasantly surprised.

When are they finally going to stop making so many redundant, derivative and overly pretentious new zombie movies?!? No wait… Better question: when am I finally going to stop watching all those redundant, derivative and overly pretentious new zombie movies? If there are two sub genres that have truly outstayed their horror welcome, it's the light-headed zombie comedy and the depressing zombie apocalypse drama. The first of the two can still be enjoyable, in case you manage to switch off all brain functions, but the latter are usually very tiresome and pompous movies from aspiring young directors that desperately try to add something new without realizing that literally everything has been done before in the zombie film industry. The unique selling point of this "Extinction" (apart from the fact that it's a Spanish-American- Hungarian-French co-production) is an allegedly heart-wrenching sub plot about two fathers emulating for the love of their 9-year-old daughter Lu and, later in the film, the strange discovery that the zombies have seemingly evolved into robotic/mutant type of creatures. Their bite apparently isn't infectious anymore and they communicate with each other through shrieks, but seriously who cares? There's quite a bit of action in the opening ten minutes of the film, with a bus full the humanity's final survivors violently getting invaded by a horde of zombies, and then the plot leaps forward nine years in time. The world turned into a snowy apocalyptic wasteland and former love-rivals Jack and Patrick live as neighbors but don't interact with each other in a town called – ha ha – Harmony! Even though they haven't spotted a zombie in years, Jack is totally paranoid and doesn't allow his daughter Lu to set foot outside of the house. Patrick sends out radio broadcasts and goes out hunting with his dog. When the new and improved zombies return, they are forced to set aside old disputes and rivalries in order to survive. 80% of "Extinction" is dull and predictable. The remaining 20%, the opening and climax, aren't dull but nevertheless predictable and identical to dozens of other zombie flicks. The drama aspects entirely miss their effect and, in fact, aren't even that remarkable. Truly worthwhile zombie apocalypse dramas do exist but are rather scarce, like "The Battery" for example, while "Extinction" is just another millionth forgettable zombie flick.