Saoirse Ronan stars as Daisy, an American teenager sent to live with her cousins on a farm in Rural England, just as War breaks out and London is hit by a nuclear bomb. The cousins are then split up during an evacuation and we follow Daisy as she attempts to get herself and her young cousin Piper back home to the farm.
Whilst this film is quite harrowing in places, and deals with some tough subject matter of how civilians would be treated in a war situation, you have to be quite forgiving to follow the plot, lots of things are left unexplained, we are given no information about the "war" apart from the fact it is happening, so is it world war 3 or just internal terrorism? It is very confusing as to the nature of the threat, although the opposing forces seem to have a highly organised army.
The opening sequence of Daisy arriving at the airport is almost deliberately amateurism, the opening credits do not befit a film dealing with complex issues of death and destruction, and initially the terse set-up with Daisy not wanting to be there is extremely off-putting.
As the film goes through and once the plot gets going post nuclear bomb, the acting improves, and the film begins to show its true potential.
There are still a few niggles, such as Daisy leaving Piper on her own out in the open when there are plenty of places to tell her to hide, and the Hawk is just an unnecessary addition that adds little other than a convenient contrivance.
Worth a watch, stick with it through the opening half hour of setup because it does improve 7/10
Whilst this film is quite harrowing in places, and deals with some tough subject matter of how civilians would be treated in a war situation, you have to be quite forgiving to follow the plot, lots of things are left unexplained, we are given no information about the "war" apart from the fact it is happening, so is it world war 3 or just internal terrorism? It is very confusing as to the nature of the threat, although the opposing forces seem to have a highly organised army.
The opening sequence of Daisy arriving at the airport is almost deliberately amateurism, the opening credits do not befit a film dealing with complex issues of death and destruction, and initially the terse set-up with Daisy not wanting to be there is extremely off-putting.
As the film goes through and once the plot gets going post nuclear bomb, the acting improves, and the film begins to show its true potential.
There are still a few niggles, such as Daisy leaving Piper on her own out in the open when there are plenty of places to tell her to hide, and the Hawk is just an unnecessary addition that adds little other than a convenient contrivance.
Worth a watch, stick with it through the opening half hour of setup because it does improve 7/10
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