It's a Disaster (2013)

Powerful

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Taking a look to see if anything had been added to Netflix UK over the last few days,I discovered that a post-apocalypse Comedy with Julia Stiles was going to be taken off the site in a few days time.Being a fan of the post-apocalypse (and also having enjoyed seeing Stiles in some titles) I decided that it was the best time to visit the disaster zone.The plot:For their third date Tracy Scott decides to take her date Glenn Randolph to a couples brunch hosted by her sister Emma Mandrake.Shortly after everyone arrives for brunch,the TV,phone and internet start to shut down.Caught up blaming each other over who has not paid the bill,Emma and Pete Mandrake catch the other couples by surprise,by revealing that they are getting divorced.Reeling from the news,the group get a surprise visit from neighbour Hal Lousteau,who tells the couples that they must stay in the house,due to five,possibly nuclear, bombs having just gone off.View on the film:Spending the whole film in the house as the world ends,writer/co- star/director Todd Berger & cinematographer Nancy Schreiber give the movie a warm,free-flowing improvised atmosphere,as rough-edge whip- pans catch relationships in the house ending with the world.Although he does not step outside,Berger does very well at drawing a rough impression of the events taking place outside,,with the crackle of radio/phone calls and the odd front door visit hinting at the disaster unfolding just down the street.Offering the perfect black Comedy backdrop with the apocalypse,the screenplay by Berger largely leaves comedic set-pieces for a dry,bitter wit being fed by the ripples of Emma and Peter's marriage problems. Casting everyone in the wacky shade,Berger gives each characters weird edges a delicious kooky warmth,which shines from Randolph being completely uncomfortable,to Hal's hilarious matter of fact warning. Joined by the off-beat delights from Kevin M. Brennan and Erinn Hayes,David Cross and Julia Stiles give great performances,thanks to Stiles giving Tracy a sharp shot of level- headed sass,whilst Cross raptures Glen with an unexpected dash of mad sincerity.Final view on the film:A movie that is far from disastrous.

This movie is a nice try to make another doomsday movie with bad result. No good as a story and no good humor.I didn't laugh and I didn't enjoy it because it has nothing new as a movie art or interpreting the human nature. Very boring and just repeating features from other better movies. It reminds me a movie from an artist in my country who thought she could be a screen writer and movie director and the result was a disaster as this movie. No worth the time I spend thanks God I didn't pay for watching this. Go watch Melancholia and you will see who they wanted to copy. It is really a piece of movie art. So if you want to see something which is worth your time don't trust trailers, avoid them. Read about movie, read the story and see which director do it. Certain directors never fail, and will always contribute to the art of movie, and thats is: not to repeat themselves and do only what concerns the human beens on earth not only your country problems. Thats what make a movie an art piece. People all over the world will understand it.

This is not an original film, the original one is Luis Buñuel "El Angel Exterminador" (Exterminationg Angel), http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056732/reference .There is not a reference in the whole IMDb page that says is a remake or a adaptation from Buñuel Movie neither on the film, I am sure who ever has the rights from the Buñuel movie hasn't seen this film yet.. I really don't get why there are so many reviews of how good is this original movie, when this films is clearly not an original film.Now I really enjoyed this adaptation of one of the most interesting films I have ever seen by my hero Luis Buñuel.

I love the performers in this. I love the concept. It is incredibly well done, real and fun. I cannot over-state how much fun this is!I do not think I am including spoilers by pointing out the basic plot.A bunch of "friends" get together for a monthly brunch. Before things even get going, they get interesting. Then, they have reason to think that the end of the world is upon them.The fun is watching people with nothing to lose calmly exploring, in an often amusing way, their lives and relationships. I have to give kudos to the cast again. They are all absolutely terrific an well cast. They're real. They feel like people I've met and soul searched with myself. It is on Netflix streaming at this time. If you miss it, you stink :-)