The Collapsed

My girlfriend is awesome for clocking bad movies and she gave up on this 5 mins in.. Sooo Whilst on my own I decided to finish it off. I Have a cold and bought some cheap whiskey (Purely for medicinal purposes)

So After swallowing a few shots to clear my sinuses the alcohol numbed the shards of glass score that was entering my ear and it became somewhat watchable. However I was still unable to get past the shoddy acting but had a few giggles at ninja dad taking cover behind trees no thicker than my thigh and the stealthy bunch hollering so much a deaf dog could hear em.

I persevered and in the end realised that I had lost over an hour of my life and I can't tell if it was this movie or the whiskey that has killed so many brain cells.

To be fair it was something to watch and I managed to watch it till the end with a little help from some spirit.. Which would suggest that this is an okay drunk film... but not the best I have seen and certainly not palateble sober.

3 outta 10 just cos It kept me watching but was quite dissapointed in the end Aaaand because whiskey.

Seriously, the end of the world, and your first priority is to go and shave your legs???!!!

Well here we go again with another post apoc film to grace DVD. I just watched a German import the other day called Hell which was okay but brought nothing new to the table. The collapsed has to be the slowest film I've seen in years but for some odd reason I had to watch all of it. I guess I was thinking their was a lot more to it than meets the eye but NO it was exactly what I expected. About half way through I knew the ending, talk about Transparent. I believe if I had let my 4year ols son watch it instead of putting him to bed before the credits started, I think he would've figured this one out. The acting was lousy and you can't blame that on the budget. I've seen tons of films on a shoe-string budget have excellent acting....hello Cassandra Kane from Family Demons and I think that budget was under 10grand. This had a lot more to work with and we are dealt some of the worst cards on this side of poker. The sets were good and some tension thats it!!!!!

I read some of these reviews and I wonder if A)These people saw the same movie I just wasted my time with or B) The family and friends of the people who made and starred in this wrote them. This is one of the worst films I've seen in the Apocalyptic genre. Just a terrible, boring, badly shot, badly acted, poorly plotted mess of a movie. The way these people are (and no, I'm not expecting every survivor to be Rick Grimes and company), they shouldn't have survived the first ten minutes of this disaster. They are careless, and constantly do silly and dangerous things. The world is collapsing, they find a dead kid in a car and take the time to care for the body? Who gives a damn. In the apocalyptic world, dead is dead. Move on. The acting was so wooden that it seemed Gepetto carved these people out of a tree. Want to see a good movie? Don't start here.

Considering how much they spent on this, I guess you would have to give the crew and cast some credence to their work. Its not overally terrible , not the worst of the low budgets you might see, but not really as good as many others.

It was probably minimal takes as well, shot in a short duration.

Overall, the people posting more then 5 stars on this is just ridiculous, its really poor production by today standards (not even TV quality) it has some poor acting in places. Its plodding, conceptually slow with minimal payoffs.

If reduced down to a hour, it wouldn't be a half bad episode of something akin to Twilight Zone etc.

There isn't much reason to watch this, if you have others on your list, just skip it.