The Day the World Ended (2001)

Fresh and Exciting

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

this is one hell of a movie...and talking about hell literally!! The title is misleading and it has nothing to do with the end of the world. I wasted 1 hour of my life since I saw the 3/4 of the movie on fast forward. The story is a childish science fiction b movie. The plot is silly and the effects are for kids. It is really a low budget production. The acting is even worse. They all act like they play in a Hollywood blockbuster... Do yourself a favor and do something else instead of watching this one! I try to find a reason why I saw it till the end, and I can only say that every second passed I hoped for something different or a big twist... I have never written such an awful critic and I love movies, but I hate it when they mislead the public.

Bobby Edner did a great job in here. I loved the way he projected his character's emotional confusion and how he dealt with his apparent alien heritage. How stirring is the scene when the alien monster approaches him by leaving a path of destruction and death behind it and young Bobby shyly whispers "Dad?" towards the creature? That's awesome. Despite a rather fine cast, the entire movie was an apparent cheap production and - to be very honest - the alien was a real shame. That's what happens to low-budget productions trying to create something beyond their financial capacity. The characters were shallow most of the time and the story did not develop in a too sophisticated manner. However, I liked the movie as a whole due to a) Bobby Edner, who just aced a very difficult and emotionally ambiguous role and b) the story, which had its good basic approaches nicely delivered and was interesting to follow. I'll award it with a 7 due to my personal preferences, though it normally is not to be rated above a solid 6.

Horror film finds a killer alien, who is just misunderstood, devouring people. A school psychologist (Nastassja Kinski) investigates the death of a student's mother and finds the boy (Bobby Edner) believes he is the son of the being. His earthling father (Randy Quaid) is also a doctor who has the boy in his care and holds that it is all in the boy's imagination...or is it? A good cast and an original premise high-light this mediocre made-for-TV monster flick. The creature effects aren't bad but the film generally lacks tension, suspense and gore and is rather predictable despite a good, well-written finale and adequate direction from Terence Gross. Interestingly, the title has absolutely nothing to do with the film (Not to mention the fact that this movie is completely unrelated to the 1956 original Roger Corman film barring the same name!). Check out the "face-skinning scene for some hilariously bad effects. 4.5/10.

.. Are people THAT afraid of an overweight nurse? I mean,seriously, get over it!No, it wasn't a great movie, but an overweight middle-aged nurseisn't something to hate it for. There ARE such people in the world,my friends. If the 15 second sex scene scared you that much, Ithink YOU need to visit Kinski's shrink character. (Older, unprettypeople have sex. Deal with it. I bet you're the same people thatfreaked over Anthony Hopkins doing a love scene in The HumanStain.)Definately not a great movie.. I kind of feel sorry for Quaid andKinski.. They're stuck in low-budget made-for-video films, despitebeing pretty good actors. I don't think it was bad enough to "shoot you with a pellet gun,"though. That's a little overkill. There are a lot worse films.I'd give it a 4 out of a 10. Despite not being a good film, I did watchit all the way through. I wanted to see the ending, though some ofthe middle was rather dull. For alien movie lovers, I'd recommend War of the World (oldercolor version, with the aliens with the blinking lights and reallycreepy hands) and It! The Creature (Thing?) from Outer Space.4/10 stars