I'm so sick of apocalypse/monster films that feel the need to focus in heavily on the tribulations and emotions of their cast of protagonists without actually caring to design interesting protagonists. If you're going to make a movie like this, either put all your effort into the danger itself and the unique story you can derive from its existence or write characters that are even slightly notable. Malorie (the main protagonist) is such a bland character for no reason; in the opening they establish her as an artist with biting sarcasm and then they throw any personality she has out the window as she just becomes "woman who hates apocalypse". Gary, who comes in about halfway through the movie, is instantly and inexplicably more compelling than any of our previous protagonists and if you've seen the movie you'll know that's not really a good thing. In fact, the sooner a character dies (unrelated to Gary) the more interesting they typically are, which I unfortunately see a whole lot in these sorts of movies and it slowly whittles the cast down to the blandest characters because the audience can project themselves on them more easily, I guess.

I should note that the monster was fine, since a lot of peoples' issue with this movie was that there was no explanation or elaboration on the monster; I find that can totally work, and no answers are needed to make for an interesting plot, but you do need SOMETHING interesting beyond just the existence of the monster. Aside from that, the shooting of the film was actually pretty good and as I said before there were some likeable characters, so despite what I've said my rating of this film is higher than I expected, but it's very close to getting lower. I'd only recommend this to people who are so heavily into the premise that they can see past the primary boredom.