Well executed and surprisingly satisfying.

Rating: 7/10 (14 December 2009)

I went into this movie with much skepticism. Afterall, this year's mega budget pictures have all ended up feeling like a high-class tranny hooker. Good on the outside, but in no way pleasing nor satisfying on the inside, not that id know. (ie. Transformers 2)
Especially with such a huge topic of THE END OF THE WORLD, you'd expect this movie to fall flat on its back after half an hour or so (ie. Knowing, good Lord what was that). But this movie did surprise me.
It did not try to conjure a convoluted and nonsensical plot-line to justify the end of the world, and the sub plots all come together a tad shakily but albeit, steadily eventually.
What I enjoyed most was the attention put to the different moral aspects of human nature and survival, and the reign of goodness vs selfishness in human morality. It wasn't deep, but just addressing this seemed sufficient to bump up a couple of points.
See this movie. Its well done (for its genre of disaster flicks) and is a visual treat. And dare I say, at times had me on the edge of my seat...
This isn't gonna win any Oscars but it will satisfy any viewer seeking FINBALLY a above average disaster flick that does most things right.