Though it's a disaster movie, and, well, disaster movies feel like the news these days, this is a really enjoyable 'in peril' movie.
Partly because it is shot in a documentary, real time feel. The camera angles close to the character's point of view - it feels as though we are following them around, not watching a movie at a distance.
The characters are well rounded and plucked from comfort to the lottery of who will survive and who won't, (and how you keep your place in the airlift out of the incoming peril lottery); not to mention various riotous and life threatening situations as the meteors/asteroids keep falling and fires start; and everyone drives for their lives...
There's a lot to say to us about what is important, how we use and value life, family and what we do when the world's ending - do we lie, defraud, steal, lie, murder or party? Also how we use and share resources when peril threatens. Given how the family are separated and bundled around in cars and vans, I couldn't but help think of the terrors faced by those being people trafficked; and the airport scenes horribly made me think of Afghan airports, showing that fiction is not always stranger than truth...
Sadly the main character's apparent last moments are focused on their family, not a lot of obvious faith here, and there's a trick ending when humanity descends into darkness, to emerge, (impeccably coiffured), from the blast proof bunker many months later into the 'greenland'. CGI-ers clearly had a lot of fun 'destroying' the world's capital cities in the name of art.
Ultimate climate change revenge movie as nature fights back....
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