The Day (2012)

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Even the colour of this film has a bleak, grey and washed-out feel. But the characters and plot are believable, beaten down by years of struggle to survive after an apocalypse the details of which seem unimportant now. The challenge is for the group to keep going through the bitter the competition for food in an environment where nothing seems to grow. Only those that started out as the fittest are left now and even amongst these survivors one looks like he might have pneumonia. In these circumstances and in unrelenting rain, they decide to risk a stop at an isolated farm house despite deep, and, as it turns out, well-founded, misgivings about whether it's going to be safe.The acting throughout is strong and believable and despite the film's low budget, they kept back enough cash for copious amounts of blood which flows pretty freely as the action intensifies.I noticed minor flaws, but very unimportant set against the strongly drawn characters and the relationships between the members of the group - friendship, trust and mistrust. Certainly not a feel-good movie, but one to make you think. Worth watching.

"The Day" started out very promising for me, but within a half hour unexpectedly turned a different direction. Which for some of you may actually be a plus but I'm old school. It is filmed in the greys of a post apocalyptic ravaged world with most of the movie set in an old farm house. The protagonists are not zombies, or aliens, or some lethal mutant virus....or even just survival of a wasted world and that's where it disappointed me. Yet I think most people into apocalyptic movies will like this movie a lot...(Especially If you like quite a bit of kickass action and blood and guts) For a movie obviously on a budget it's all VERY well done. The directing and acting is excellent. There are lots of scenes done at night, a bit hard to follow and a few editing slips, but the vast majority of this movie is HUGE leaps and bounds, in every aspect, above most smaller and lower budget productions in the post apocalyptic genre. So if the subject matter interests you, I have no doubt you should give this movie a try.

The acting was actually very well done despite all odds. While the writing and directing were an atrocity to films. The director didn't seem to understand the concept of peripheral vision, and believed simply panning the camera was an excuse for people "teleporting" away. Its almost as if he believed everyone was a ninja and could simply disappear in plain sight. The writing was equally bad, although the movie was set in a post- apocalyptic world no explanation was ever given. Was it a nuclear war, a virus, a violent climate change, I don't know? Because the writer didn't feel that back-story was a part of his job description. Couple that with poorly developed characters also lacking a back-story, a horrible plot, shoddy dialogue and you get yourself the box office bomb named, The Day.

This movie is pretty much a series of nonsensical garbage that the film never even makes an attempt to justify or explain. If you think about the film for more than a minute then you realize that nearly nothing about it made any sense. First off how did the little girl move more quickly and stealthily than a Navy Seal? Second how are there already cannibals so soon after this movies apocalypse happening? Doesn't seem that food is too rare in this film. The only reason the heroes are hungry and low on food is because they are forced to move around so much that they cant stay and plant crops though they have the seeds to do so. Third this movie makes no attempt to explain why their are cannibals and what happened to the world to make it "post apocalyptic". Also why is the former cannibal chick wearing a short enough dress where a windy day could blow her dress up enough for everyone to see her mark. This film is basically just a bad excuse to show lots of violence and panty shots. This film seriously blows.