Extinction - Enough time had passed so that I felt like a rewatch. Still sort of underwhelming. The main draw (at least for me) were the two leads who also starred in two of my favorite series, Matthew Fox in Lost and Jeffrey Donovan in Burn Notice. It's yet another end of the world, zombiepocalypse film but it does try something different by emphasizing the interpersonal aspects of the novel by Juan de Dios Garduņo. As it turns out the two protagonists, Patrick and Jack, loved the same woman. In a short prologue/flashback of sorts they're shown on a bus full of evacuees during the initial stages of the outbreak. The woman is pregnant and when the film jumps to present time it is nine years later and her child has grown into a little girl named Lu. The plot reveals very little as to the whereabouts of the missing mother. It is only much later that the three characters existence in an unidentified and bitterly cold part of the country is fully explained. They've ended up in a fenced in compound where the two men live as neighbors while having nothing to do with each other. The threat has passed with most of the inhuman creatures supposedly having died off from the cold. Anyone watching will know where this is going.
Although the film should be commended for trying to inject some family like dynamics in what is an overworked genre it never quite fully gels. Too much of the plot is allotted to the three characters but their story fails to fully engage the viewer. So when the fully expected "threat" finally rears it's head it doesn't have the dramatic impact it should.
Although the film should be commended for trying to inject some family like dynamics in what is an overworked genre it never quite fully gels. Too much of the plot is allotted to the three characters but their story fails to fully engage the viewer. So when the fully expected "threat" finally rears it's head it doesn't have the dramatic impact it should.