My fuller, more reasoned views of this movie are on Substack here --

This movie feels like a 12 year old wrote it.

This was the most honest review I've heard. I just wasted $30 to see this in theaters and I've never left a movie Angry about getting ripped off

So many plotholes

I strongly disliked it as well!

They dropped the ball harder on this movie than the secret service at the Trump rally.

The most realistic part is how the POTUS ignores the fully equiped bunker with escape routes and just hangs out in the WH protected by secret service armed with Regan era 80's tech.

Hated it. Mainly watched for the photo journalist stuff and for Kirsten. Felt like a zombie movie without the zombies. And the ending/character resolutions was terrible.

They really had a chance to make a stupid great movie and just decided took a huge Dookie on it instead and made it about journalism 🤣🤣

The most ridiculous thing about this movie is, Texas and California teaming up.

I felt like this was a poor man's "Children of Men". If you want Dystopian Future, that's your movie.

Hated this film....should have been called JESSIE:THE ORIGIN OF A PHOTOGRAPHER 😑🙈

As YMS said in his review of the movie, don't go into this movie expecting an explanation for the California/Texas situation, that the film could've been set anywhere but just happened to be the US. Most critics seem to love it regardless, go figure. 🤷‍♂️

Hi Josh, having seen some other glowing reviews of this film, I thought I might come back and ask a question. Others seem to be under the impression that the film is intentionally ambiguous (ie. it is not designed as a narrative fiction with good guys and bad guys for the audience to root for or against but to reflect on the depiction of a world where it is difficult to recognise who is who) because it is a cautionary tale about the divisiveness in modern day America rather than a science-fiction movie. They seem to read the film's intentions as to provoke discussion about this potentially fatal divisiveness rather than to create a fantastical depiction of some far-off future dystopia.

We just got up & left from it 15 mins ago! It’s boring, and all about two photographers filming weird random acts of violence with no point. Horrible movie! Don’t waste your money!

The war aspect, the cinematography of this movie is good, I wish this movie focus more on the war and how it got started instead of making a bunch of insufferable characters which the group of photoshop journalists as the main protagonists. I said in my rant video that they should of called this movie "The Press" since they're the main focus of the movie

I liked this movie. I went in very doubtful, came out quite impressed by the way it had avoided the trap of a polarized audience. It's definitely not for people who need a Hollywood standard package. I particularly liked the way it did not try to explain, message or propgandise political positions. I did not take it as glorifying journalism either. Quite the reverse. What it did do was take real world examples of war violence seen in other countries and place it in US towns. A glimpse of the insanity of a war. The gun violence, destruction and emotional reaction was very different to your regular Hollywood heroics. The story was very reminiscent of Apocalypse Now (aka Heart of Darkness). Not saying its a great movie. It has flaws. It was nice to see something outside the regular cookie cutter template. By the way it's not science fiction. It's speculative fiction.

Wooooah journalism is so cool!

doh! maybe i’ll have to wait for streaming! In other news - have you sampled the Fallout show that just dropped on Prime?

Hated it. A waste of time.