Parts Per Billion

2014 "When The Earth Ends, Will Love Survive?"
4.3| 1h38m| R| en
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The interwoven stories of three couples which are forced to make life-altering decisions in the face of a disastrous war. Inspired and sometimes blinded by their love, Len, Mia, Andy, Esther, Anna and Erik are as flawed and beautiful as any of the billions who are facing this human-made biological disaster.

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ada the leading man is my tpye
SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped
Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.
mspace52 Watched this on Netflix, and it became so tedious I started to fast-forward through the prolonged, meaningless rounds of chatter. The ending was so incomplete you might think that they all just decided to call it quits and walked off the set.It was an interesting premise, the status of relationships against the backdrop of a global health crisis. However, the crisis itself wasn't developed in a believable manner. Dude is playing basketball blissfully unaware that an airborne chemical weapon is drifting to the US, after having left hundreds of millions dead in the Middle East and Europe. (Really, that didn't turn up in his news-feed?) And there was little reflection within the relationship, in regard to these terrifying events, as most of what you are subjected to is the events in their lives prior to the release of the toxin.
nookiemonster1986 I watch 2 or 3 movies per day in my free time and this was probably the worst movie I have seen in over a year.. Movie was extremely suspenseful, but the end just died out and left you hanging.. Was extreme waste of resources and time. I thought josh hartnett scenes were really good but you don't even know what happens to him and his wife at the end.. Also would have liked to seen what happened to the old couple. Also don't know if the black guy dies because the bikers could have shot each other or someone could have shot them through the window. Everyone wants to know an ending so producers should put them in every movie
softermaniac This movie is not sci-fi and it's not an end of the world disaster movie as the title seems to suggest. I think its abysmal rating is because people are going into it thinking it's a certain kind of end of the world, doom and destruction movie and then they find out it's not that at all. Not by a long shot. This is a romance/drama film that tries its darnedest to be deep. This is one of those interconnected drama movies along the veins of: Crash, Magnolia, The Air I Breathe and Happiness. So if you're into that sort of style, plotting and character driven storytelling you'll almost definitely like this. If not, you'll most likely find it tedious, boring and depressing.
MartinHafer "Parts Per Billion" is a film written and directed by Brian Horiuchi. It's very well made—with some really nice acting. However, it's also one of the most depressing films you could ever watch and I don't think most folks would want to see a film quite like this—especially since it seems very obvious where all this is headed.When the film begins, you learn that some sort of biological weapon was unleashed in the Middle East. Soon, folks in that part of the world start dropping dead and it seems like the weapon will spare no one in the immediate area. However, when the effects start spreading globally, it seems like perhaps no one will be left alive. However, this film is not so much about this directly but how a few individuals react to all this. Some fight desperately to survive, some ignore the inevitable and some can't stand to face life in this post-apocalyptic world and are ready to just give up. Naturally, these scenarios are depressing and the film keeps cutting back from one story to the next.The film stars a few famous folks—with some really nice performances by veteran actors Frank Langella and Gena Rowlands as well as Josh Hartnett and Rosario Dawson (among others). The direction is also good, though in a few scenes I was annoyed by a modern filming technique which I think is way overused—the unsteady cam (it can make you nauseous if you see too much of this on the big screen). But the combination of the music, writing, acting and director's touch is quite good.I am going to make this review rather short. Suffice to say if you like Robin Cook stories about pandemics, then you'll probably enjoy "Parts Per Billion" (well, enjoy might not be the right word for this). However, it's a lot more depressing than most of Cook's doom and gloom scenarios—much! Well made but so thoroughly unpleasant I am not sure who would really want to see this one. My advice is see it if you want, but if you are suffering from depression or are worried that this one might make it tough for you to sleep, I suggest you try something else. Well done but awful to watch at times.