The premise is an asteroid strike on the far side of the earth. An impact so violent that the blast wave will spread across the entire globe in a rolling fireball. The fact that people the furthermost from the impending disaster now have a countdown for their inevitable deaths is explored (primarily using male and female 20 somethings).
I found the actions believable as in we'd all react differently to being told we are about to die. Some people would go insane, some wold shrug it off, commit suicide, have a party, watch re-runs on TV. The gamut was well represented.
As a debut feature by Zac Hilditch, I say well done. Suburban apocalypse has been done and done and done but this entry is original enough to still be wedged into the collection.
Nathan Phillip's 'James' doesn't get any back story for us to judge his morals and ethics by. He does well to show how torn he is when a desperate instinct to die while smashed out of his head on alcohol and drugs is repeatedly interrupted. At first he manages to push his conscience aside as his girlfriend tells him she is pregnant. Angry and afraid he runs from her, heading to his best friends end of the world party and looking forward to hooking up with his old girlfriend.
He has a few problems on the way and must abandon his car. On the look out for another vehicle he sees two pedophiles carrying a young girl they've snatched off the street into a house. His conscience will not allow him to steal their car and leave her to be attacked so he rescues her (Rose) Ingourie Rice. She is a natural born actor and I usually hate child actors.
Rose wants to return to her Dad but James tries every other way to get rid of her. First he tries to drop her at his sister (already committed suicide), takes her to the rave party (where she is given Ecstasy), and then to his estranged mother (she's totally resigned to the impeding doom). There are some really good indicators along the way that he is becoming more and more attached to Rose but he really can't seem to work out why. His confusion is shown so well.
Finally convinced that he isn't going to get a handle on his own problems in the time he has left, James resolves to at least deliver Rose to her Aunty. His good deed I guess.
He leaves Rose at the Aunty's house after discovering the family has all committed suicide You'll just have to make up your own mind here but I found this scene quite moving and believable. It's the end of the world so you don't have the luxury of thinking through every possible scenario. The main point made was that Rose wanted to die with the person she loved (Dad) which make James realise that he wants to be with Zoe and his unborn child.
I liked this film. Aussie culture is often depicted in extremely cringe-worthy ways, and some of the scenes were over the top stereo types. But as a whole this is the new generation of Australians.
BTW guns are REALLY hard to get here so all the shooting was the most unreal part I thought. The cop was a good side step. I would have done a little more with that scene though.
I found the actions believable as in we'd all react differently to being told we are about to die. Some people would go insane, some wold shrug it off, commit suicide, have a party, watch re-runs on TV. The gamut was well represented.
As a debut feature by Zac Hilditch, I say well done. Suburban apocalypse has been done and done and done but this entry is original enough to still be wedged into the collection.
Nathan Phillip's 'James' doesn't get any back story for us to judge his morals and ethics by. He does well to show how torn he is when a desperate instinct to die while smashed out of his head on alcohol and drugs is repeatedly interrupted. At first he manages to push his conscience aside as his girlfriend tells him she is pregnant. Angry and afraid he runs from her, heading to his best friends end of the world party and looking forward to hooking up with his old girlfriend.
He has a few problems on the way and must abandon his car. On the look out for another vehicle he sees two pedophiles carrying a young girl they've snatched off the street into a house. His conscience will not allow him to steal their car and leave her to be attacked so he rescues her (Rose) Ingourie Rice. She is a natural born actor and I usually hate child actors.
Rose wants to return to her Dad but James tries every other way to get rid of her. First he tries to drop her at his sister (already committed suicide), takes her to the rave party (where she is given Ecstasy), and then to his estranged mother (she's totally resigned to the impeding doom). There are some really good indicators along the way that he is becoming more and more attached to Rose but he really can't seem to work out why. His confusion is shown so well.
Finally convinced that he isn't going to get a handle on his own problems in the time he has left, James resolves to at least deliver Rose to her Aunty. His good deed I guess.
He leaves Rose at the Aunty's house after discovering the family has all committed suicide You'll just have to make up your own mind here but I found this scene quite moving and believable. It's the end of the world so you don't have the luxury of thinking through every possible scenario. The main point made was that Rose wanted to die with the person she loved (Dad) which make James realise that he wants to be with Zoe and his unborn child.
I liked this film. Aussie culture is often depicted in extremely cringe-worthy ways, and some of the scenes were over the top stereo types. But as a whole this is the new generation of Australians.
BTW guns are REALLY hard to get here so all the shooting was the most unreal part I thought. The cop was a good side step. I would have done a little more with that scene though.