Awful, just awful

Rating: 2/10 (27 June 2016)

The worst sin in movie making is to not understand your audience; and OMG, this movie has that in spades.
We watch action movies for two reasons --- thrills and to see heroism, competence, and the best of humanity. But this movie offers few thrills, and nothing of the best of humanity. The supposed hero cares more about his family than about the rest of humanity, and such successes as he achieves are purely the result of luck, because it's not like he's actually especially good at anything, whether it's fighting, small-scale tactics, or large-scale planning. On the other hand, his wife is every bit as short-sighted and selfish as him, so perhaps that's his concern, that with her gone he'd never find a replacement willing to put up with him and his colossal selfishness and short- sightedness?
I don't ask for every one of my action heroes to be supermen, possessors of a "very special set of skills", or suchlike. But I do expect them to have enough common sense to understand concepts like "if the entire human race is destroyed, that INCLUDES my family, so maybe I should forget about them for a few days and actually SOLVE the damn problem we're facing?"
Think of the lousiest action movie you've ever seen (I'd suggest the Transformers franchise as an example). Awful as these movies are, from the utter lack of logic throughout them, to the wanton destruction, at least they have the redeeming feature of considering something (humanity or the nation) as more important than one single human being.
But then every so often some lunatic at Hollywood decides it would be a good idea to create a "family-friendly" action movie of the form "everyman and his lame-ass family get caught in some huge event; everyman shows what a stellar human being he is by being willing to kill or abandon every other human on earth to save his three family members; and we're suppose to cheer for him".
This is what counts as a family-friendly message --- no-one on earth matters except you and your immediate family! If you have the slightest hint of ethics in your body, you'll avoid these sorts of movies and prevent anyone you know from seeing them.