Night Into Day

I appreciate doomesday, survival, apocalyptic type movies. This is one that centers around a typical California couple living in la-la land when an attack occurs. No food, no gun, no skills. It's only them an a looter in the movie. Very realistic scenario for 99% of California residents on how they would survive. .

The movie could have potentially been a 5 star movie for me. It, to me felt very much low budget. The actors were terrible. The ex wife did nothing but complain about the ex husband, dead air moments when you could hear them chewing, swallowing, etc......... drove me so crazy I couldn't watch and or enjoy much of it at all because I didn't want to listen to the dead spots, where you literally could hear someone's stomach sounds, breathing, swallowing, and most painful was listening to ex-wife complain through the whole thing about her husband, when potentially the world was about to end and yet, SHE WAS KINDER TO A STRANGER THAT BROKE INTO THE HOME...... HORRIBLEE. Hollywood, could've made this movie a real blockbuster because of the storyline. Way too much vomiting, swallowing, breathing, stomaches gurgling, etc.....and the dead air spots were worse.........I very rarely watch low budget movies, while I've seen worse, this one didn't impress me at all.

This movie is dreadful. The characters are all loathsome and their reactions to what happened are ridiculous. At least the filmmakers didn't spend any money on this. I was rooting for the radiation and was stunned that an hour and 18 minutes could go by so slowly. Watch Patterns, Testament or On the Beach instead.

A really clever premise for a film. It's incredibly hard to write a film where only a few characters are stuck in one location, and Night Into Day is overall successful in keeping you engaged. I liked the opening and the montage showing the couple's creation and destruction - it reminded me a bit of that sequence in "Up." I could see an alternate world version of this film where Artemis, a supporting character, was the main character. His journey and arc is compelling and the actor playing him was very sympathetic. Ben Hall did a great job directing - even though the film is mostly shot in a studio apartment, the visuals never get repetitive. As the story and drama are solid, this is certainly worth a watch.

It wasn't a comic book movie and it didn't have CGI.....so, could have been worse.