Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Twilightfa Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

housecountrywife The only reason I bothered watching this is because Abel Ferrara directed it. It was really late and i figured this would be a decent movie to fall asleep to, but ended up watching the entire thing. I read reviews on here prior to my personal viewing, and think some of the negative reviewers completely missed the point of the movie. If you are looking for action it's not here, this is human behavior and psychology at it'z zenith, and last day. I couldn't help relating to some of the characters in the film, and I think some people out there will be able to as well. Ever wondered what the last day on earth would be like? This movie takes place in NYC, so imagine post-911 city dwellers last moments, you might find yourself not far off in your mental gleaming once you view the film. Maybe because it was late at night and I was somewhere between consciousness and unconsciousness, but the film was disturbing and some moments rather creepy. Highly recommended, especially with the state of the world and America today.

David Holt (rawiri42) I have criticized other reviewers in the past for being uncharitable and negative as I have always made a practice of looking for something good in every film. But THIS one has absolutely NOTHING good about it - and, if anyone says it has, then he/she needs urgent psychiatric help. I'm truly sorry folks, but I can't be anything BUT negative!A friend brought "4:44 Last Day On Earth" around to my place last night as something to watch after a few of us had a barbecue together. Well, eventually, at 8:44 PM, after two friends had fallen sleep (and I wasn't at all surprised) we decided to end the world early rather than die of boredom! I have checked the "May contain spoilers" box although I don't honestly believe it is possible to spoil this film! It is already an utter load of crap - NOTHING could make it worse!As the cover blurb tells potential viewers, this is supposed to be the story of a somewhat unmatched couple (Willem Dafoe and the much younger and virtually unknown Shanyn Leigh - who's career won't have been done ANY good by participating in THIS) covering their final hours before the end of the world. No actual indication of HOW the world is going to end at the precise time of 4:44 AM is given - which leaves one wondering how it was determined. There is some talk about the final and total depletion of the ozone layer but that wouldn't bring about a sudden end that could be exactly predicted to the minute. Neither would the melting of the polar ice caps as a result of global warming (also briefly mentioned). Actually, there are only two scenarios that I can think of that COULD do that. One is some sort of religious prophesy rather like the Seventh Day Adventist one for October 22, 1844 or the Mayan one for December 21st 2012 (both of which, as you may have noticed, didn't happen! Surprise, surprise!!). And, since there are at least two dozen major religions around the world, each with manifold denominations, only a relatively small percentage of the world's population would even give such a prophesy credence. The second - and much more credible - is an interplanetary collision where the impact time WOULD be precisely predictable and the severity calculable. However, neither of those is even mentioned which leaves the viewer mystified (to say the least) at to what the film is all about anyway.If anything, the religious scenario is the more plausible one for this movie (and there ARE several real-footage clips of people gathered in St Peters Square in Rome and Dalai Lama interviews etc.) because, with less than twelve hours to go, there are taxis and other traffic, hookers and beggars all normally going about their business on the streets of New York and very little panic behaviour evident. I can tell you as a one-time taxi driver, there's no way I would be working at such a psychologically or financially unrewarding job during my final hours of life! (I imagine hooking would be a lot more fun!) So it seems obvious that not everyone in this film believes that the end is nigh (again, surprise, surprise!!!)The beginning of the movie has some promise of going somewhere as a soft-porn romance (if your imagination can stretch that far!) but that is apparently only there to grab the viewers' attention because it doesn't go anywhere.As I have said, eventually, as we realised it really wasn't going anywhere, we turned 4:44 off, woke our sleeping friends and watched a much better movie (that wasn't hard!). However, this morning (Sunday), I decided to see how the damned thing would turn out (call me a masochist!!) and picked it up where we left off - which happened to be about ten minutes from the end - if you could call it that. In reality, there WAS no end. I never found out what was going to end the world (which was the only reason I decided to punish myself further).Skye (Leigh) was supposed to be a painter in this movie but I would venture that a chimpanzee would have made a better one! All she did was pour and splash acrylic paint onto unstretched canvasses laid on the floor and roll on them whilst having sex with Cisco (Dafoe) and then (presumably as there wasn't much time left for natural drying) direct as many fan heaters as she could lay her hands on to dry them. This, of course, had me asking why since there wasn't going to be anyone to look at them!I could go on but, to be honest, there wouldn't be much point because, by the time IMDb have approved this review, the world will probably have ended and no one will read it anyway!! However, just in case the world doesn't end at 4:44 tomorrow morning and you DO happen to read this review (and I do NOT want to sound conceited here at all), you will probably find it a lot more interesting than the movie!!Have you got the message here? Just in case you haven't and the world DOESN'T actually end, I will spell it out for you. DON'T WASTE ONE SECOND ON THIS GARBAGE!!

mauraid This film is fairly disturbing. It is very well acted and absolutely true to life. Some reviewers question the portrayal of many people as going about their daily lives in the face of disaster. As someone who has experienced the possibility of death and spent time in a residence where people were dying, that is pretty much what most people do. Whether it is because denial is such a motivator or just because most folks don't have the funds to change their lives in a big way, most folks just keep on keeping on. You talk to loved ones, say goodbye, settle up unsettled business and put on the clothes you have been saving for a special occasion.My problems with this film are that the science is not explained and the story contains no concrete lessons. The moral seems to be 'I told you so.' It also is not moving. Therein lies its biggest failing. A quiet, thoughtful end of days film should leave the moviegoer with a desire to avoid the events of the movie. As a person with a history of activism, at the conclusion of this film I was discomfited, somewhat depressed but had no desire to do more about the environment. Why make a movie about an avoidable end of the world if not to move people?Why should you see it? Because it lays blame where blame belongs: on each and every one of us. The spacemen didn't do it. Terrorists didn't do it. Muslims, Koreans, Communists - none of them did it. We did it to ourselves and the Al Gore clip is not laughable but probably the scariest part of the film because it is real.

p-stepien Judgement day is upon us. Having raped Mother Earth for resources we have brought about her death with her essence dilapidated and ravaged, thus bringing about an abrupt end to all life, as we die en masse with a bright light of an ozone layer mega-burp. People attempt to cope with the inevitable, mostly be lingering around a computer with Skype access to say farewells, or just start jamming out some sick melodies online. A successful young painter Skye (Shanyn Leigh) and her elderly famous actor lover Cisco (Willem Dafoe) spend their last days next to each other, mostly absent in mind and body, occasionally getting down and dirty with sex the ultimate completion of love.Resident American bad-boy Abel Ferrara grinned across the red carpet in Venice in 2011 with his apocalyptic end of days summary of human existence. Closer to the self-flagellatory oblivious oblivion of von Trier's "Melancholy" (also with respect to possessing an equally idiotic premise for Earth's demise) than the light-weight, but emotionally engrossing "A Friend for the End of the World", Ferrara's independent drama dwells in overly prolonged moments, which litter the movie, but fail to fill it with substance.Rough around the edges (to say the least) this poke at sci-fi follows the same old path as most art-house directors attempting to venture into the genre: they introduce an absolutely absurd plot and justify this laziness with 'symbolism' and 'higher purpose'. Maybe not as idiotic as the incoming planet Melancholia, but still thinly layered and done with much less poetry than von Trier. Here we have a notion introduced that 'Al Gore was right' and that the depleted ozone layer will cause the world to burst into flames at one precise moment, ie. 4:44 AM (not even the biggest pessimists of global warming would ever conceive something as absurd). Meanwhile, before this sudden blast of fiery fury life goes on as usual, even on judgement day street life seemingly unchanged (apart from certain minor events), while no cosmic events lead up to the inevitable. Cisco portrays culpability of every single human being through a dream sequence, where he cuts down a tree. Basically showing the heavy-handed approach chosen by Ferrara. Now... I can be labelled somewhat of an eco-nut, but the symbolic premise is brutally thin and sloppily added on, with no true feel that the end of days is upon us (a far cry from the limited ambitions of "A Friend for the End of the World").Dropping the eco-pretext and letting it linger in the background the movie is about ending, closing and accepting. But is closure ever possible? Maybe not, but acceptance is inevitable. Here we labour down this path following the whirlwind emotions with snail's pace. Furthermore with death creeping ever closer we find Skye more intrigued with finishing her final painting, while Cisco spends time peeping through binoculars into other people's houses, possibly Ferrara's suggestion that detachment was natural, while only the ultimate end pulls people back into each others arms. Nonetheless this solitude near the end serves to offer two worthwhile scenes in the movie. The first involves a Vietnamese immigrant, who still delivers food on judgement day, simply because he is disconnected from his family abroad and in his lonely desperation decides not to alter his path. The other has Cisco observing other people during the final minutes of existence and almost admiring how they cope with the inevitable. Two scenes alone which made the movie a passable experience, even if the contrived dysfunctional relationship of Cisco and Skye just drags along to a poetically unsatisfying conclusion.