Stevie29

Tedious and so meandering before getting to a point. This is sloppy storytelling with extremely poor plot development and execution. The construction and even the dialogue is hackneyed. I mean you have a newscast talking about Defcon changes, and later you see people stocking up at a store in anticipation of some possible event (I assume a world on the edge of destruction) yet the story spends about one minute on this cataclysmic potential and never really addresses it. A gigantic hole in story telling. Onto the rest of the story it moves at a glacial pace with frankly bizarre things that happened to the main protagonists that simply happen because they happen without explanation. Such as what is the rational of the Hansel house, why were these two selected, what are the animals about that lead them, what kicked in the sudden activation of these two. So many things stuffed into this stew without satisfactory explanation. Also what are the crystals about and what is their true power? It appears they can do whatever is needed at the moment. Frankly, some of the acting was over wrought and over the top. Oh and don't let me be remiss in how incredulous the escape of the characters are, they are able to out run a cadre of skilled professionals. Yes I get it you need to suspend your disbelief sometimes, but I'm not going to suspend it indefinitely. And the female anchor describing the videos at the end is supposedly a professional is at a lost for words. Laughable. This is a failure as a film it is a predictable mish mash that played for 2 hours (without obligatory credits) that felt like 3 hours. I kept saying to myself are we getting to a point here? Save your money.