Nice idea, but as for the realisation....

Rating: 2/10 (23 December 2008)

A staggeringly bad delivery of a really interesting premise. When you find yourself praying for the main characters to die horribly, and soon, you know the film makers have got it badly wrong. Compare this to the less conceptually interesting but brilliantly made Cloverfield, taking one recent apocalyptic instance, and I'm wondering if my vote of 2 was 2 too many....
The list of cinematic crimes committed here is too lengthy to bother with. Those which, however, particularly offended me include the wildly inaccurate depictions of the effects of gun shots on the human skull and of a long pin in the jugular (no budget for fake blood?), the comedy car-meets-tree scene and the painfully sentimental and cosy 'return to normality'.
This is just a terrible film. Now imagine this directed by Romero or any other stalwart of the End-of-the-World genre and the pictures in your head will be far superior to this pasty and dreary exercise in banality.