The Clearing

What did I just waste a Saturday evening watching?

This is worth a watch, but only once. Good fathers day movie for teens to watch, they may appreciate dad a little more.

It is a shoe string budget production with limited number of sets and locations. Special effects are extremely minimal with very quick camera shots to hide it.

The acting by the main character, the dad , is very good. With a better script and more money he could have carried the movie a lot farther. Oh well.

This movie is more like a snapshot of a couple days , not explaining how the sickness starts or even if it is world wide. For all the audience knows it could be just the immediate few miles. No way to tell.

I would not call it a zombie movie. The infected would be a better way to see it. They are not dead. And they die just fine. More of a 28 days effect than anything else.

The sick are pretty convincing, I have to admit. The daughter is your typical spoiled teen brat so no issues there.

There is no closure to the bigger infection story, the audience is asked to be content with the predictable ending involving father and daughter.

Probably a better watch if you drink a few beers first. I have given up alcohol, so I had to watch it dry.

I seen worse.

Using the backdrop of a Zombie apocalypse, this movie is focusing on the redemption of father/daughter relationship and tries hard to show the differences in our generation gap. The potential for a great film is there, but if by a great film you want one about zombies, maybe this is not for you. The characters are believable, the script is ok, the scenerio questionable but the backdrop is dodgy. If you want to see a movie about a dysfunctional Dad doing his best in an apocalyptic setting, look elsewhere.

I'm not a massive fan of zombie films. But this movie wasn't too bad. I've seen alot worse.

This really felt student-y. It had no budget and that is fine because you can work with that. However they did not.

It is really predictable and kinda just runs around all over the place plot wise. The first half of the movie isn't a zombie movie, it is a movie about a single father, then it becomes a zombie movie and then it looses all the zombies and because some sort of scene study about 2 men struggling in an apocalypse situation.

The action scenes are shot really fast and cartoon-y. I struggles to find my bearings when i was watching it.

I would give it a miss as it kinda just dodders around doing nothing for an hour and 20 minutes and then gives you the most predictable ending it could have.