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So Many Movies, Including the Big-Budget Ones Drain Color, Mute Color, Overuse Filters and Generally Make a Lot of Modern Movies Look Anemic and the Wish for that Good Old Technicolor is Frustrating and Depressing.
So When Low-Budget Directors Decide to Make Their Apocalyptic Artsy Movies with that Kind of Palette it No Longer Seems Dismal and Dystopic it just Seems Common.
Why Not just Film the Thing in Black and White. Now that's Stark, and if Need Be the Flashbacks to the Good Old Days Could be Done in Color for Some Contrast. The Decision to Use the Washed Out Look Here Fails to be Artistic or Symbolic, it's Just More of the Same Old Dull.
The Movie Itself isn't that Dull. In Fact, it is a Slightly Above Average Go for This Type of Thing and there are Some Intriguing Characters and CGI Violence that Deliver the Goods. It's been Hammered for Not Explaining the Backstory for the End of Life as We Know It.
But that's Doesn't Wash. Does it Really Matter. The Earth and the People of Earth are on the Road to Ruin and there are a Multitude of End of Days Scenarios, Take Your Pick.
Nuclear War...Overpopulation...Chemical Poisoning of People, Air, and Water...A Wandering Comet...Disease...Genocide...Climate Change...Alien Invasion...Etc...Etc...Etc.
Overall, Recommended for Fans of Low-Budget Horror, Dystopian Displays of Survivalists, and Bible Types...The Cannibalism Thing Comes from the Good Book. This is a Good Movie if Not a Great One, Although it Does have a Great Ending.
score 7/10
LeonLouisRicci 8 December 2014
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