No one is spared...

Rating: 8/10 (19 December 2019)

Ultimately, what's at stake? Single family members? Humanity? Love? Regret? Mistakes? Understanding? Memories? Those we hold dear?
This is a pretty tense flick that keeps you glued to the screen. I did have one thought as in a question that I would like to see answered : where did these damned beings come from? Outer space? Okay, but how did they land?
I'm a little like, did anyone try turning on tree cutters and grinders? That's one of those elements that makes it a bit more difficult for me to fathom how humanity could really find itself in this position.
But everything in the movie is really heartfelt. Loss, desperation, fighting on, giving up, sacrifice, searching for an answer. The family relationships and the way the individual characters both communicate and miscommunicate, for a large part because speaking is largely out of the question, are really well drawn out.
I do feel some of the creative decisions were made a little too much based on the fact that hope and tragedy should be countered to a really large degree. It's a bit difficult to see how there wasn't another way out or at least an attempt at it, begging the question whether in this case it wouldn't have been more appropriate to actually make it a more uplifting movie.
Mmm. I did like it. I definitely would want to see it based on how much I enjoyed it, knowing that I did. It has its only minor shortcomings, but it's thus heartfelt and otherwise really well drawn out in terms of character relationships that I can easily forgive the makers for these shortcomings.
I also just noticed that they made or are making a sequel to be released in 2020. I will want to see that too.