Brilliant Concept, Stellar Performances, Terrible Ending

Rating: 8/10 (13 April 2018)

8/10. One of the toughest movies I have had to rate. So much buzz around this flick, I went in with super high expectations. And in terms of concept and a story of sheer survival - it nailed it. Strikes a lot of similarities to 'The Road' with Viggo Mortensen in terms of its survival story, its dark and foreboding atmosphere and its abundance of some truly edge of your seat, gut wrenching sequences. Could not fault the acting. Blunt and Krasinski were brilliant and so were the kids. But the reason for not giving it higher then a solid 8, is for the stupid ass ending, the mother's decision to have a child...and the fact the dad didn't decide to hurl the axe and just dropped it instead! Come on cuz!!! Apart from that, it had its thrills and was well paced. Did I love it? No. Would I tell you to pay $20 to go see it? Not too sold
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