Extinction

Year of release : 2018

 

Run time : 1h35min

 

Genre : Thriller / Sci-Fi

 

Cast : Michael Pena, Lizzy Caplan, Israel Broussard

 

 

Peter has what he calls visions of an alien invasion. His wife can’t cope with his night terrors and daily blackouts,and asks him to see a psychiatrist.

 

He goes to see one,but there,as he waits he has a conversation with another patient who tells him the so called psychiatrist is erasing their memories. So he walks away without seeing them.

 

The very same night,it starts. The lights they've been seeing in the sky for a while descend and wreak havoc, destroying buildings and shooting at people.

Peter tries to get his family out of the building, while the floors are full of the "aliens" who enter people's homes and k1ll them.

I personally enjoyed the movie, it's fast paced, it doesn't waste any time and gets down to the action.

 

The acting was good,the visual effects great,the soundtrack good.

 

 

SPOILERS AHEAD

But,the kicker,the twist is,they aren't visions,they are memories!And the aliens aren’t really aliens,as they look human,and we find out,are human. And the big twist,the cherry on top,the leading characters,are not human but machines! 

They banished humanity off the earth and humans came to take it back,50 years later.

The machines chose to erase their own memories to live as humans,while some of them kept them to prepare for humanity’s comeback.

 

As the second twist unraveled,I couldn’t be on the leading characters’ side,and I sided with the humans,because I’ve seen Terminator and The Matrix,and after all,they did push humanity off the face of the earth,killing all of them in the process,including the ones who didn’t have anything against machines and had android children.

 

What I found amazing was that they lived 50 years without growing old,the kids without aging,and they were content with it,they didn’t find anything unusual in it. The idea of it felt to me like still life,regress. END OF SPOILERS

The movie received negative reviews with complains about storyline, pacing and character development.

The movie took 40 days to film, in Belgrade, Serbia, with a 20 million dollars budget.

Allegedly, James McAvoy was offered to play the lead.

A Netflix production, it can be found on their platform.

 

Rating : Worth a watch !