Ameriatch One of the best films i have seen

Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

peteypiper My housemate recommended this to me and being a student whose sleeping pattern is ruined, I decided to put it on. Safe to say, I really liked it! Let me state the obvious and say that it's not the best film in the world. However, it's definitely not the worst. I've seen worse apocalypse films, trust me! I feel that people are dissecting it, which therefore makes it not enjoyable. When it comes to philosophy and logic, granted, the film doesn't make sense (the whole idea that there's nothing to fear as at the end of the day, it's all in their heads!) Yet, that is exactly what makes it good. Your imagination is literally the worst place you can be in when it comes to this scenario. It's designed to make you think of the scenario and apply that same mindset and thought process into a real life scenario. For example, when Petra decides to choose the people that provide fun and entertainment for a year as opposed to people who have skills that can ensure survival, that's basically telling you that there are other ways of figuring things out as well as saying that it isn't just about survival! I wasn't a fan of the whole "teacher and student affair" part of the narrative at the end. I thought that did ruin it a bit and wasn't a good climax. All that aside and focussing on the point of the movie, it was good! If you want a film that makes you think, then this is definitely one to watch. Just, when you watch, don't say things like "that's not philosophy" and "this makes no sense as it's in their heads." Just watch it and enjoy it for what it is and you may find you enjoy it more.

witward I hardly ever write reviews unless a movie is incredible or pure trash. This movie is pure trash. I am still in disbelief at how bad this movie is.1. The lead actress in the movie is so bad. Its so bad that all of her lines are almost straight monotone. 2. Their "logic" is anything but logical. It would be like having a thought experiment and in the middle someone say "i went into this room and there was a time machine and everyone lived happily ever after"...Its like there was no rules. You could make up whatever you would like. I was going to keep going with this but i just realized i have wasted too much time on this movie. I recommend skipping this horrible waste of time.

Alexander Hartmann Well, this was a *really* interesting movie in the sense of *WHOM* would you "invite" to your nuclear-proof bunker for two weeks or even a year? Would your bunker "survive" more people than it could provide for (food, water, air, entertainment, etc.)?? Our teacher speaks of "theoretical scenarios" - i.e., what would you do in this situation? And yes, the "trolly scenario" is demonstrated - Trolly Problem scenario is here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem). How would students resolve this issue? So we move on to a global problem - "nuclear war". So, who gets to stay and who gets to stay outside? The bunker can only hold 10 people and there are 21. Of the ten, would you include a teacher? A Real Estate agent? A musician? A biologist? A Doctor? Also, you need to consider re-population, so you'll need to include a balance of men and women.So you *don't* include the Real Estate agent - what could they *possibly* contribute to life after nuclear war? Nothing? Think again. Perhaps their outside work hobby is survivalism? What about the teacher? Yes, you'd include them, for obvious reasons. But what if the teacher was not capable of reproduction? Has their value to the bunker dropped? Possibly.Let's throw in a variable - someone who doesn't identify their job, their background, their hobbies, their usefulness ... would you include them in the bunker? Most likely not.So, this movie is NOT really about nuclear war, CGI nuclear bomb scenes, "Terminator"-like graphics, action, "life-after-war" or even "The Road" (a movie).This is a thinking movie about preparation for disaster and thinking about whom would be most useful for, in this case, post-nuclear life - or really, about post-disaster/pandemic/zombie apocalypse/etc. scenarios.So, who gets to stay and who gets to die - *thats* what this movie is about.It is a talkie film, but you get to think about the usefulness of the kind of person that you would include in a bunker following a world-wide disaster. It is most definitely worth a viewing, at least once. I watched it once after reading all the reviews and thought, "Um ... yea ... " but the darned thing is that the movie's concepts played in my head for the next month. Thus why I am writing my review here.Go watch. Enjoy the irony, the decisions made, the scenarios. It's all good fun.

Rolf Magnus I thought it was a great film. Sure, I didn't like the female lead because of her horrible acting but I personally didn't think it took away from the movie much. As others have said, the ideas are good and I think they executed it very well. Definitely worth a watch. I felt like it went by in a flash, I enjoyed it so much. But just a side note, I was originally interested in some philosophy before so you may not see it the same as I did. It's a bit different from the average movie, as in I feel it's best to watch while imagining yourself as one of the students and making your own judgments on the choices made throughout. It's quite thought provoking and a nice movie to watch if you want to relax (not much action) and, although it sounds contradictory to my comment about pretending to be a student, it's a movie where you can just take a backseat approach.