Night Into Day

The movie was good enough to keep you watching until the end. I think I only kept watching just to see if it would get better. By the time the movie ended I had more questions than answers. Not the worst movie that I have even seen though.

Two people in the middle of a divorce struggle to survive a nuclear strike in L.A. it is so dumb, and they make so stupid decisions, that I kept hoping everybody in the movie died. Don't waste your time.

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.

Knowing this was filmed in 2020 or earlier, we know who was President. This movie plays on the theme that the US would be drawn into many wars and sought to scare us that the Orange man would cause nuclear war. The toxic rhetoric of the President is how it's put, or close to that, before any action begins in the nuclear way of things.

I mention irony because no matter what your position on the sliding scale of politics, one would have to be willingly lying to themselves to not understand how much closer the world is to such a disaster today.

At any rate, I was thinking this might be like the movies from the 80s. I'm terrible at remembering the movie names usually but I think The Day After was the American film with Jason Robards but the British film title escapes me. Both were grim looks at the closest a film could make nuclear war appear as it might be in reality. Something like that I hoped for here...turned out to basically be what General Hospital would've done with a nuclear storyline...except I rather enjoyed some GH back in the 80s.

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. .