Goodbye World

If there are roving bands of rogue soldiers, angry and distrustful neighbors and biker gangs running convenience stores, would you be high and naked in the outdoor hot tub? Would you really be picking at old jealousies from the college days?

None of these characters really work as either representations of ideologies or human beings, and none of their female counterparts, despite the fact that the movie was co-written by a woman, are convincing ...

Obviously, the potential for shifting tones here is great; unfortunately, those tones shift rather erratically.

For all the outside threats and watchable cast members, the story falls apart from within.

An unconvincing, poorly conceived hybrid of end-of-the-world thriller and relationship drama.

Apocalyptic visions are no longer enough to shock us. By this point, if you want to imagine the end of the world, you really need to say something new about it.

Armageddon is little more than the precipitating incident that gets the cast together.

Serious Look At The Future

Kind of an incidental apocalyptic drama -- an unusual, distinctively character-rooted hybrid of The Big Chill, The Trigger Effect and Into the Wild.

It achieves an unfortunate imbalance of breezy banter and airless melodrama.

There are just too many clichés in Dennis Hennelly's movie for it to be truly great, but it's just smart enough and original enough that it's easy to go with.

This film can't decide whether it's a Noah Baumbach-ian character study or an episode of NBC's Revolution.