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I had never heard of the film before tonight's showing on Turner Classic Movies. Slow moving, it took time to deal with peoples' feelings, good and bad. The characters walking through deserted cities and towns reminded me of several Twilight Zone episodes. It was also similar to the other "end of the world" movies TCM is showing tonight: "The World, the Flesh and the Devil" and "On the Beach". But "Five" predates these and all other movies covering this subject.
I was born the year this movie was made and the fears I grew up with in the atomic age have stayed with me, especially those from the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962.
The movie makers didn't need a big budget or special effects, something Hollywood should pay attention to 57 years later.
Good movie and the message is still valid.
score 8/10
cloud_nine 9 May 2008
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