Just bad

Rating: 2/10 (10 January 2019)

This film very quickly reminded me of "The man from Earth", which is not a good thing, since that is the worst film I have seen in the past decade or so. It has a very similar feeling of a single bad idea (clearly cherished by the writer), extrapolated out into a tedious, (poor) dialogue-heavy, low budget b-movie.
Like in that film, the script is so poorly written that it immediately makes the situation feel manufactured, particularly the way everyone gets a piece of dialog in turn, as if the scriptwriter was writing by just skipping through each character and assigning them something trite to say, one after the other, to give them their "reason to be there". The opening scene where Bullock's character calmly ignores the very obvious armageddon taking over the rest of the world and carries on her lighthearted chit-chat really sets the tone for how silly this film is, and how little the screenwriters understand (or manage to portray) how humans work in real life.
The lack of any story development, except a succession of increasingly improbable activities and events, makes this a story with no story-arc. In many cases it feels as if the blindfolds are mainly used as a tool to ensure there are no SFX costs to pay on this film.
And maybe I missed this whilst I was busy grimacing, but why exactly are they safe indoors but not outdoors?