What a Great Film!

Rating: 9/10 (14 June 2008)

I'm surprised at all the negative comments because I really enjoyed this cross between a sci-fi thriller and a road movie.
Sure, there's not a lot of CGI, and it probably moves kind of slowly for the multiplex crowd, but there's nothing wrong with that. I found it really refreshing to see a film without explosions or people doing backward somersaults in slow-motion.
The film deals with a largely unspecified menace, and that's the key to understanding it. There's no-one to fight against, there's no chance of heroics, there's no way to react to what you don't know or understand. Instead, the characters actually *grow* and do small, touching things for each other, as you suspect people would when faced with an incomprehensible peril. Occasionally, fear drives them to being the exact opposite.
It is these small, well observed details that make this such a great movie.