Below average movie with a topping of propaganda!

Rating: 3/10 (12 January 2019)

There was an anti-white male theme throughout the movie. All the villains of the show were white males, from the mean old white guy (who is perpetrated as a Trump figure), to the psychos that saw the light. There was also a sentiment of white males not showing responsibility in the absence of Malorie's/Olympia's husband and that the black man has to selflessly pick up after them. Further pushing interracial marriage. Not to mention the entities coming out of Russia given the narrative against them...
Although they say "Don't let the facts get in the way of a good movie," I felt like they left the logical reasoning and explaining in the books hands, which is rather lazy. Obvious pitfalls include the sustainability of a blind school in the middle of an apocalypse. The use of electricity, even though power after such an event would probably be gone in two days, unless they somehow got a generator and fuel to last five years. The fact that the kids wouldn't know how to swim at the river scene and the directors choice to name them boy/girl.
That being said, it made the story weak and left questions for the audience to find themselves in the book. I felt like the elements of the plot swung from agenda to agenda, building around generic stereotypical characters. Although bad, it was watchable if one has time to waste and curiosity to spend. Even if it was predictable.
Overall, below average 4/10, the propaganda pushes it down to a 3/10.