Review of How It Ends (2018) by Berik — 06 Oct 2019
How it Ends is best described as a disaster among disaster movies. In typical Netflix fashion this is another failed attempt at making a good Sci-Fi movie.
From the start interaction between characters feels very awkward. Though the two lead characters were written that way, it is still an overall problem between all the characters. Will, the bloke that took daddy's little girl, is a **** that looks stressed out all the time. Tom, the military daddy, is a very dominant direct guy that clearly is struggling with the fact that Will is such a big **** And that's their entire relationship in a nutshell.
When a videocall suddenly ends with the girlfriend not understanding a sound, all contact with the west coast is lost. For some reason GPS and phones don't work either, which implies that all the satellites around the Earth are no longer working... Which is practically impossible... But sure, let's believe that for a moment. Daddy and **** decide to go to Seattle to save the Girlfriend, and along the way they run into more problems than a turkey at a Thanksgiving dinner.
Then, half way through the movie the writing suddenly improves a lot. The main characters have a more real touching chemistry, and scenes get more interesting compared to before. This doesn't last long though. It lapses back into shallowness and stupidity straight after that.
Turns out that Girlfriend is still alive, and she's staying with a conspiracy theorist who for some reason gets **** boyfriend to act like a real douche. Suddenly it becomes important who believes what instead of the fact that people have died. It's ridiculous.
The movie ends with **** boyfriend killing the conspiracy theorist, and then driving away with girlfriend to outrun a volcanic eruption. And then it just ends... Wtf. No questions about what is going on are answered, and the end doesn't feel satisfying.
It's a mediocre movie with some enjoyment in the middle, but a lackluster start and finish. I give this movie a 5/10.
This review of How It Ends (2018) was written by Berik on 06 Oct 2019.
How It Ends has generally received negative reviews.
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