Z for Zachariah Reviews
Yet another movie that had so much potential but straight way too far from the original book. And I'm really starting to get sick of movies that just leave you hanging. There's no definitive ending here. Did he/she or didn't he/she? We'll never know. Thanks for your two hours.
Just another Margot Robbery interracial coupling. All her movies seem to live out her fantasies. Why should we care. She is indeed beautiful but can't act.
I can’t recall seeing a movie that was so far removed from the content of the book it is based on. The whole point of the relationship between the two characters as there were just two is lost and was lost before they became a three.
O pior filme da história
This was an interesting excursion pushed along by solid performances from its characters. It's not an action film by any stretch of the imagination but does a pretty good job within the confines of its set up.
A very predictable movie that I wished stuck to the original source material.
A clever, thought provoking movie about the end of humanity that doesn't show the horrors of what has happened, but focuses on the now and the moral ambiguities in surviving.
Superb acting and beautiful scenery in a slow but gripping tale about the end of the world. Who loves who? Who is going to kill who? Who are these characters, really? This movie may hang with you for days!
Not a conventional movie and it doesn't spell it all out for you. I liked it a lot, thought I want to be sure....
B for Bad, D for Don't Watch, T for Turnoff, C for camera man was more athletic than the main characters. This movie had a horrible storyline, no thriller. W for whack.
Minha opinião: Um filme de 2015 que não havia visto, com elenco de peso; Magort, Chris e Chiwete. Quando vi esta relação de atores, pensei não posso perder de assistir. Seria melhor ter perdido de assistir, que coco de filme. Como atores de renome pode submeter em fazer papéis tão #exdruchilos Um roteiro e estória sem pé e sem cabeça. Ainda se fizessem um filme de zumbi daria muito melhor. Uma aréa milagrosamente não foi afetada pela radiação das bombas nucleares. Vive uma indefesa menina que é bem safadinha e se diz muito religiosa. Aparece um homem que toma banho em uma água radioativa e não morre. Depois aparece um outro cara como se vivesse como homem das cavernas. Eles trabalham para fazer uma roda d'agua para gerar energia. Um faz amor com a moça safadinha e depois vai embora. E deixa a moça de coração partido com o outro homem. Como podem artistas como se submeterem a tais filmes. Mesmo que pagasse muito. Mas acaba queimando o nome deles. Roteiro: #mediocre Vale apena assistir? Não Não Não Nota: 1
The film started well as a survival story, strangely transitioned to an interesting love triangle and then had probably the worst movie ending I have ever seen. If the ending was better, I would give this movie an extra star.
Who gets the girl at the end??? The nerd or the pretty boy??? By the end you don't care.
With only three characters, _Z for Zachariah_ gives the performers plenty of opportunity to use their acting chops. All three are formidable. In a post nuclear apocalyptic world in the southern U.S., a young lady (Ann, played by Margot Robbie) survives with her dog on her family's farm. Her parents and brother have gone off to help others, and none have returned. The farm is in a valley that has somehow been shielded from the fallout (It could be divine protection----There is a Christian theme running through this film. But there's Darwinism, too). Out hunting with her dog, Ann encounters Mr. Loomis (Chiwetel Ejiofor), an older black man who has left a facility where he was working as a civil engineer. The two start to bond, surviving together, cooking meals, planting crops, and planning to construct a water wheel that will run Ann's broken generator so they can have electricity. But this postmodern Adam and Eve have a visitor to their Garden of Eden, Caleb (Chris Pine). He's a local laborer who is on his way to a rumored survival camp on the Gulf Coast. He's about Ann's age, and he's white (and good looking). He helps John and Ann build their waterwheel (which, triumphantly, works). But jealousy between the two men over Ann raises its ugly head. I'll stop here, but the outcome will blow you away. I have great respect for films that have a tremendous impact without computerized special effects, over the top violence, and gratuitous sex. Just committed and sincere acting and a strong story. The conclusion here is stunning, and you'll understand my reference to Darwinism. My only objection is the usual Hollywood affectation: All three actors are entirely too good looking and well-groomed. Pine looks like he just had his hair styled. Not very post-apocalyptic.
Wut? That should be a movie? Very lame.
From what I have seen, the film deviated significantly from the book to the extent that they added a crucial new character to the equation. The film effectively serves as a vehicle and showcase for its only 3 characters, played by Pine, Robbie and Ejiofor. Some of the themes are certainly weighty, but in the end the main focus is on the relationships between the characters, something that irked me as a bit of a chance missed. Margot Robbie didn't convince me in this one. I could not recognise her as anyone but herself. Her rural/Southern US accent fell away in a few words, although the rest of her performance was more than competent. Ejiofor didn't have nearly as much to work with as projects like 12 Years a Slave, but he did alright. Likewise for Pine. Pine doesn't get introduced until about halfway through the film, to its detriment. Although we receive some backstory, we as the audience are not fully invested in him as a character by the climax of ZFZ. The three work well in tandem to create an open, yet somewhat claustrophobic setting. Open in terms of the rurality and empty settlement all around, but claustrophobic in terms of the fact that only three non-nomadic people and a dog are ever onscreen in a story taking place over a sprawling environment. This environment could have been the source of a compelling flick, but this possibility was massively stunted by the half-baked romance. The short runtime of about 85 minutes serves its function in that the film does not drag despite its relative stillness, but this becomes only a consolation for the weak plot. Ann's character remains inscrutable in her reasonings towards the end of the film, despite a few intriguing themes of spirituality, faith, and loneliness that she brings throughout ZFZ. While Ejiofor as Loomis offers a bleak transition of rationality giving way to desperation and jealousy, the storyline feels confused in terms of which themes it values most. This leads to a confusing jumble that ultimately cannot fulfil an intriguing premise.
Potenziale altissimo per questo film post apocalittico. Peccato che non tutti gli sviluppi siano sfruttati e si riduca la trama ad un classico triangolo amoroso. Tra i 3, il personaggio nettamente più completo è quello di una meravigliosa Margot Robbie. Interessante la fotografia.
This post-apocalyptic tale promised quite a lot. It had a good cast consisting of Margot Robbie, Chiwetel Ejiofer and Chris Pine and the premise that following the wiping out of most of the human population in a nuclear disaster, a female landowner is joined by an older scientist and the pair gradually form a bond and attraction. As they slowly start to adjust the farm where they live to their new way of life, things are thrown into turmoil by the arrival of a younger man and the two males begin to vie for the woman's affection. The problem for me was that the ending is really non-plussing. It was a real, "Oh! Is that it?" moment when the screen faded to black. There was a complete lack of the kind of tension and confrontation that would have rounded off the story appropriately. It could have been so much more dramatic and compelling. This is a movie that goes out with a whimper when a bang was needed.
Excellent film with superb acting from the cast and delicate directing from Zobel. Nuanced throughout with a thought provoking ending. Loved it.
If you survive the radiations, you will surly die of boredom. The good ideas in the film are not elaborated, the trivial parts are overlong and the ending is very anticlimactic. In two words: very bad.