... and rather weak overall i'd say ...

can't say didn't like this move but can't say i fell for it either despite the fact that i do respect Sandra Bullock as a really fine actor and by the sounds of the movie's credits, she's got quite a lot of herself involved in it behind the camera as well ...

on a positive note, there are quite a number of social commentaries and political hints etc that do make BB worth watching (ONCE ONLY!) perhaps but that's about it all ... (maybe if it weren't a full 2-hours+ movie, then it wouldn't feel a little too boring at times!?)

maybe it's too "feminine" (not feminist) a story? nothing wrong with that but what would it look like if a male (even a feminist male) had directed it: would it still feel and sound similar?

all n all, i watched it mainly because i read somewhere that viewers in at least one nation weren't quite 'happy' seeing it and Netflix thus had to pull it down from their list on that particular country ...

but maybe that's just some marketing scheme ((scam?)) to pull more viewers all over the world into getting themselves engaged with an otherwise overrated / over-hyped movie?

i mean, there are always plenty of post-apocalyptic movies made almost daily ... and most aren't much in terms of artistic or even cinematic value really even though some are made with huge budgets wasted for nothing really ...

maybe we should rather talk about why at all such movies are made in order to make some people respect moral values such as family relationships, religion, god and all that makes a society a decent one ...

but the question (at least mine) is, why are almost always the regular folk who are presented as being the most responsible party in movies of this genre? after all, not all people happen to be selfish artists or workaholic businessmen (and -women) having no time for their children, if any, right?