Reviews

Not saying any negative review is ridiculous, but a lot of the ones posted are. Too many people are nitpicking things that don't matter. Like the show's unrealistic because everyone is wearing nicely washed clothes. As if everything else on TV properly represents how people are really dressed. Even the homeless people are dressed better on TV than real life. There are some things you can ignore, like clothing, weather, night/day, etc. Why not accuse every show in the world of being unrealistic because you hardly ever see anyone sleeping? One person said the show is unrealistic because nobody has acne. Thinking that streams & rivers wouldn't work in the world of Revolution. (Most populated areas are located close to bodies of water) Also, the person forgets in a world without manufactured food, acne would probably not be as prevalent as it is today. But who's looking for acne on people's faces? That person is obviously not following the story.

Another person wonders why children would be spoiled, thinking that spoiling children was something invented in the last 50 years. There's a quote, "Don't spare the rod lest you spoil the child". Spoiling children has been around forever, the only thing that changes is the level of spoiling. What we consider spoiling now was unavailable 200 years ago.

I like the people who complain Danny Matheson hasn't died, they're funny! Or the people who complain because they think most buildings should still be standing. In flashbacks, they explain there were wars after the blackout. So buildings getting destroyed and none getting built means a declining number of buildings. Also, the guy who says "whiny" a lot, whined a lot in his post.

Most people who complain haven't watched the entire first season. A lot of questions they asked are answered by the end. If only they would have stuck with Revolution until the end and then judged. Their comments would have been different, even if they still wouldn't like the show. Also, why would you want to have all questions answered by episode 4 of a show? Why tune into the other 16 episodes? How many shows answer all questions at the start of the season? Revolution is a realistic, well-paced show with a few flaws. They spend a lot of time rescuing each other. Also, the characters constantly get sidetracked. One minute they need Nora to save Danny, the next Nora is off with her sister and they no longer need her. But if you can forgive flaws like these (which appear in most shows), then you'll get a good character driven show with an interesting plot, and several interesting sub-plots.

The zombie outbreak starts with Brad Pitt with his family in stopped traffic. There's a huge explosion with no explanation of why. Then, either a huge horde of humans are running from a small amount of zombies, or a huge horde of zombies are chasing a small amount of humans. You can't tell who is who, because all you see is a mob of people running in the same direction. Occasionally you see a zombie or two leap after a human, so you can tell they're not all human. But otherwise they could have been filming the bull runs in Spain (without the bulls).

The zombies are part of what ruins the movie. They run faster than humans can, leap onto flying helicopters and can stack themselves 20 zombies high to climb walls. They can detect any terminal illness in any human, no matter the disease. No explanation is given how someone can go from ordinary human to super zombie in 12 seconds. Or why zombies just bite humans and then run away. If it takes 12 seconds to turn, then why don't they continue to attack for 12 seconds?

Next, all the zombies are gone somehow and we see humans looting a store. The zombies are attracted to sound, but somehow they can't hear people pushing shopping carts on pavement. After some shopping, Brad takes his family to an apartment building which seems to be void of zombies. He convinces a family to let him and his family into their apartment. After a beer, Brad tells the father that him & his family should go with him. However, the father decides to stay. Bad decision. When Brad Pitt tells you to do something, you do it. Within seconds of Brad leaving, all of a sudden there's a hundred zombies outside the door breaking in.

Brad's on his way to the roof for a helicopter rescue while being chased by zombies. All of a sudden the little boy from the family shows up. No explanation of how he got by all the zombies, nor an explanation of why the zombies stopped coming to allow Brad to save the boy. All we know is when Brad Pitt is around, zombies either stop coming, or become very calm. Almost like they just took a Valium.

Next they're off to South Korea. Nothing happens except Brad learns he needs to go to Israel, and the North Koreans are fine because they extracted the teeth of their entire country. (Can't infect without teeth) How that stops the 4 billion people already infected with teeth is never explained. Brad gets to Israel to witness they built a wall around the country and survived the zombie apocalypse. Not for long. They're letting in people from everywhere. All you see is humans entering the country through metal walkways. Who knows where the walkways lead to or why the zombies can't get into them. Or can they? There's a scene later in the movie where a zombie picks up a human in the supposedly safe walkway, and infects him. If that's all it took to infect the walkway, then why weren't they infected a long time ago?

Why didn't Israel get infected? Because they built a huge wall. Why did every continent get infected at nearly the same time? Because as explained in the movie, it was the airplanes. Big cities were affected first and worst because of the international airports. Did Israel have airports? Absolutely. They had a line of planes leaving every minute. Did zombies infect the planes? They certainly infected the plane Brad Pitt left Israel on. So why didn't Israel get infected by one of the planes entering the country? Never explained.

The reason why the zombies took over the country is dumb. After they let in refugees, the refugees start singing and that noise attracts the zombies. Forget the fact that they have helicopters constantly orbiting the wall, or the never ending line of planes taking off from their airports. It's the children singing that triggers the zombies to scale the wall and conquer the country. In South Korea, army soldiers gave advice to aim at the knees to slow them down, and then the heads to kill. So obviously we're not dealing with invincible zombies. So how do they manage to stack themselves 20+ zombies high, and then drop all the way to the ground uninjured? No broken bones. But if you shoot their knees they drop like flies.

Then there's the amputation scene. Israel is being overrun by zombies so badly, the girl running behind Brad gets bit. They kill the biting zombie, and then conveniently, zombies stop coming so Brad can amputate the hand of the girl, and bandage her up. I told you Brad Pitt has a calming effect on zombies!!

About the "terminal illness" theory. How did they not discover that the entire cancer wing of a hospital would be unaffected by the zombie virus. Or were the zombies simply avoiding Brad Pitt? I wish Brad Pitt infected himself with a virus that made him invisible to me.

Out of all the movies Hollywood could butcher, I never thought they could ruin Elm St this badly.

• I loved the original Freddy movies. Even though it's been a while since I've seen them, I remember them being some of my favourite horror movies. However, I don't remember Freddy being a child molester. Even if it was hinted he was a child molester, that's not the picture I got of him. He was a child killer before he died, and a child killer after he died. In the new movie, Freddy was a child molester (NOT a killer) before he died, but turned into a child killer (NOT a molester) after he died. WTF??? Why did this sudden change of character occur? Nobody knows. They didn't have to create this plot hole, they could have made Freddy both a child molester & a killer. But Freddy didn't kill anyone until after his own death. Also, what made Freddy stop being a molester? Did he see the error of his ways after his own death? - What's the point of the Freddy claw? Freddy didn't cut the children while he was alive, and didn't even get the claw until after his death. Where did he get the claw from? What was the purpose of the claw? (These questions were answered in the original film) - The script failed to capture the basic plot of every Freddy movie. The premise is Freddy gains strength in 2 ways. By creating fear in his victims, and by having more victims to terrorize. (In the original movies, the only way Freddy could gain access to someone's dreams is if they were told about Freddy by someone who was already being haunted by Freddy.) This whole plot element was eliminated from the new movie.

• The original Freddy had a sense of humour, and enjoyed killing his victims. He would use people's weaknesses against them. (Such as killing a drug addict with needles) The new Freddy has no fun, and doesn't personalize any kills. He uses the same boring claws every time.

• I remember more of the plot line from the original movie I saw 20 years ago than new movie I saw last night.

• The Freddy mask was the most popular horror mask of its generation. Not only does the new mask look worse, but who wants to be a child molester for Halloween? That's not how you build a good merchandising brand.

Why remake a movie if you're going to change or eliminate everything good about the old movies? Not because the changes make the story better or give a new twist on old ideas. The changes only serve to create plot holes or ruin what was a very good story (by horror movie standards). They managed to take a likable killer and turn him into a boring creepy pedophile.

You obviously get a 1 star movie.

Stupid things about the movie: - Aliens ride lightning bolts into the ground. OK... What did they ride to get onto the lightning bolts in our atmosphere? - The Aliens ride lightning bolts through the ground into Tripods they planted millions of years ago. WHY?? Why are the Aliens riding the lightning bolts? Surely they can shrink living organisms to the size of a lightning bolt. So why can't they shrink their Tripods and have them on the lightning ride with the Alies? No, instead Spielberg opens up a HUGE plot hole!! - So we're to believe that Aliens would prefer to use technology millions of years old, vs their own current technology?? I know how much we advanced in 200 years. I'm positive millions of years from any time, there will be too many advances which will deem the old technology unusable.

• We are to believe that millions of years ago, when DINOSAURS were the dominant species, Aliens set a trap for humans. (None of those Tripod cages looked like they were for holding dinosaurs!!) To be sprung AFTER humans attain nuclear technology. Why not invade us when we were using swords? Or at least hold off the invasion a few more years until Tom Cruise dies of old age. They had no chance against Tom Cruise!!! - OK, more stupidity. First of all, the Tripods were as tall as skyscrapers, and were hundreds of feet away from humans. Yet they had pin-point accuracy every time they fired their "Vaporizer". They had pin-point accuracy every time EXCEPT for when they were firing at Super Cruise. There were many moments when the people beside SC (Super Cruise) would get zapped, but all Cruise would get is a lil dust on his clothes. Sometimes they would shoot through buildings, and still hit every human other than Cruise every time!! Sometimes Super Cruise stops moving, not to rest. But just to... Um, well I don't know why he stops. And I don't know why they don't shoot him through the building when he stops. He looks like the only target left!! This guy really is Superman!!! - The first half of the Alien invasion is where they Vaporize 90% of the population. Then, they start capturing the few humans left, in order to harvest them. That's like owning a farm, and slaughtering 90% of the cows and burning them, and only actually using 10%. And it's not like the humans were putting up any resistance. They couldn't touch the Alien Tripods, yet the Aliens were destroying their good fertilizer!!! I guess that's how the Aliens advanced for millions of years. Use 10%, waste 90%! - Dakota Fanning. Why is she screaming so much? I found myself Fast Forwarding the second I heard that high-pitched squeal. I don't care what happens in that scene. It could be the best special effect ever!!! I can't watch it with little princess screaming her damn lungs off!!! Is Spielberg going deaf, and he can't hear how loud & how much she's screaming???? - Was there a writer's strike in 2005?? I know where all the money for the budget of the movie went. First was the short special effect scene. Next come the desperate team of Spielberg & Cruise, I'm sure they got their %'s. And the rest of the money went into short appearances by name actors. There was narration by Morgan Freeman, a short scene with Tim Robbins, etc. The problem is they didn't have any money left over for the script!! There was no character or plot development (other than the Aliens came, they conquered, they died). Cruise was the same bitter man at the end of the film that he was at the start.

• I know Spielberg is past his prime and is out of ideas. But he stole the whole idea for Super Cruise destroying the Tripod from Independence Day. Instead of a jet launching a nuke up the middle of a giant ship, it was Cruise launching ordinary grenades that kill a tripod and release its captives. Then for reasons unknown, the Aliens die... So I guess Spielberg didn't want to be a plagiarist, so he only stole half the idea. Because in Independence Day, everybody simply copied the same idea and nuked all the Alien ships. But then again, how would Spielberg explain everyone captured having grenades? Oh wait, this is Spielberg, he doesn't have to explain anything!! - I don't want to get into the son, but I will. His whole character is retarded. He serves to distract the viewer from the plot. He always tries to get his way, fights with Cruise, and nothing ever gets resolved. Basically, there's no point of having so much conflict between Cruise & the son. And then when he desperately begs to be allowed to go fight the aliens... Why? Why did he want to go? Why did Cruise let him go? Why didn't the Aliens capture him and harvest his blood? We know from previous scenes that the Aliens can see you a mile away!! What was the point of the scene where the strangers almost took Dakota Fanning's character? Nothing ever happened from it.

• There's a lot more, but I'm tired of typing.

Yes, this movie is actually retarded.

The idea is good, I will give them credit for that. But the execution is just a boring movie with horrible editing.

First of all, why do we have to watch a minute of 2 people taping up a house??? 10 seconds is fine, we get the point!!! There are more holes in this movie than in a brick of swiss cheese. The dumbest one is the whole "twist". Supposedly some sort of bomb is spreading an illness to anybody who can't seal their home. The symptoms are severe coughing, and at the end the female main character (who's name I don't care about) looks as pale as a ghost. So the twist is the girl who was outside almost the whole movie, who was coughing, turning white and throwing up, was able to be saved. While the guy who sealed his home, and showed absolutely no symptoms (This guy didn't even sneeze!!), was infected beyond saving. Um... What?! If the guy was so infected, why didn't he show even one sign of it? And why was his wife, who was coughing up a lung, able to be rescued and presumably cured. (I say presumably because you never really know if she was cured or not, you just see her getting medical attention and being told she can be saved)

Then there's the hole that the main character taped up his entire house, and won't even let his wife in. But when she throws a cell phone through a window, he just leaves the ash that comes in his home and does nothing about it. This guy is paranoid as hell and willing to let his own wife die, but he somehow doesn't mind a pile of ash sitting in his kitchen? Then we have to believe that this small pile of ash mutates in 3 days, and becomes what they call "airborne".

If the original "ash disease" wasn't airborne, then why was the whole city getting sick? Why was his wife coughing up blood if she wasn't exposed to the "airborne ash"? We have to buy this BS about the ashes magically becoming airborne. It was snowing ash like it was winter in LA, and all of that ash falling down didn't become airborne. But the little pile of ash inside the main character's house mutated for absolutely no reason. (Don't expect them to explain it, like everything else in this movie)

Every character in the movie (other than the 2 main ones) jump in and out of the movie for no reason. This Mexican guy was working next door, but he somehow decides to move in with the main character. Why didn't he stay in the house he was working in? Then, all of a sudden he has to leave to be with his wife, who no one in his family has seen since the explosion. Then there's the little boy Timmy. He's in the movie at the start, and the main character sends him home. Then halfway through, he comes back, and still he has no purpose. Thankfully, the wife takes him to the hospital, and we don't have to see him anymore. Again, that little boy serves absolutely no purpose in the movie. Then there's the wife's friend. He suddenly shows up at their back door (after a "scary" flashlight scene), and the next thing you know, him and the guy's wife leave to go to the hospital. When the wife returns, she says her friend shot a bunch of people and then drove off. What the? What was the point of him being in the movie?

Then there's the 2 main characters. The movie spends way too much time on pointless dialog between them. The wife is completely annoying. Apparently Mary McCormack (the actress who plays the wife) thinks screaming and being a nut is considered acting. Maybe that's why all she can get are low budget movies. The male main character was flat, boring and irrational. He tapes himself and a Mexican stranger inside his house, but lets his wife in and the Mexican guy out. Then when a bunch of ash gets thrown in (cell phone scene), he just leaves it there. He doesn't even seal off that part of his house. And no, he doesn't avoid that room.

And we can't forget the fact that at the beginning of the movie, the male desperately tries to find his wife (who was downtown). But police sealed off all roads leading to the city core. Somehow his wife gets back home. This is never explained, because you can't explain it. If the male can't get into downtown, how can she get out? If the creator of this movie is retarded, then I forgive him. Otherwise there's no excuse for a bad script and plot. Sure this is a low budget movie. But these types of movies are supposed to make up for their lack of funds with stellar dialog & plot. This movie has nothing. No money, bad dialog, and a slow, boring, pointless plot.

If you like dumb movies, this Right At Your Door is for YOU!!!

...that would describe this movie. The whole movie is based on the main characters running. And then running some more. A little bit more running. Can you guess what happens next? There are ONLY two redeeming qualities about this film. First is the excellent atmosphere, and it is good. Second is the premise, which is what might happen if the extinction of mankind was inevitable. Yes, that's it. And if you don't want to see the movie, don't worry. I just explained the entire film. Nothing else happened, nothing. You don't learn anything, there's no morality lesson, and there's no storyline. No progression. No character development. You gotta wonder if the writers just smoked pot the entire time instead of coming up with a story.

This is one of those movies that doesn't explain anything, and attempts to be "artistic" in doing so. You are left to basically write the entire story in your head. You never find out what's going on in the rest of the world, who, what or where the human project is, or if the newborn baby even survives. How can you have a movie about the world becoming infertile, then a new baby is born (unexplained how the woman got pregnant), and not tell us what happens to the baby in the end? WHAT'S THE POINT OF THIS MOVIE??? Every character has zero depth to them and aren't even likable. (Except Michael Caine, who plays a good hippie) The ending was horrible. It was pointless, and actually made a bad movie even worse. As a joke, I told my girlfriend "That would be funny if they ended the movie right now"... And guess what happened? This movie is honestly embarrassing. Not because it was doomed to be bad from the start, but because it COULD have been good. If only they explained everything instead of just mentioning it. Or actually going somewhere with the plot, instead of it being an endless chase from place to place to place to place to place........