This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

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

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I decided to watch this because I liked the title. Had I known that Keira Knightly was in it I might have chosen something else. I wish I had chosen something else.I would formally like to state to all other nations that not all English women talk like Keira Knightly. Not many people in the UK actually talk like that at all. It is really really annoying so I'm glad that we don't.I got a bit excited right towards the end when Steve Carell was going through Knightly's characters record collection and he flicked past Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs. I was hoping to just hear one track from it to take my mind off this dull, rather pointless film, but alas, it didn't happen. You just get to hear loads of Scott Walker.

This is a really outstanding film. Steve Carell's is Dodge, as he attempts to cope with the impending apocalypse by embarking on a road trip with an off-kilter neighbor (Keira Knightley's Penny). The director Scafaria has infused the early part of Seeking a Friend for the End of the World with a comically (yet appropriately downbeat) vibe that's reflected in Dodge's encounters with various supporting characters (Rob Corddry's hedonistic Warren, Melanie Lynskey's sweet yet simpleminded Karen, etc), with the meandering atmosphere affording the early part of the proceedings the feel of a low-key character study. A rather funny part of the film is when Dodge and Penny stumble into a restaurant populated by drugged-out waiters and patrons, encounter a house full of survivalists, are arrested by an unreasonably rigid police officer, etc, etc. Some is good, some is just OK. There reaches a very specific point, however, at which Seeking a Friend for the End of the World finally morphs into the affecting drama promised by the setup, and the movie subsequently becomes more and more engrossing in the build-up to its emotionally-wrenching finale - with the irresistibly romantic bent of Dodge and Penny's relationship ensuring that the film, in the end, makes a far more pronounced impact on the viewer than one might have reasonably expected.I must admit I am a fan of both Carell and Knightly. Both bring a great deal of earnest sincerity, and talent to their performances, as well as humor and sensitivity. They carry the film.

There is almost nothing interesting or engaging about this movie. It's a little dark and a little funny at times, but it's one of the least funny comedies I've seen. Even worse, though, is that it's completely unromantic. It's okay for a romantic comedy to be not very funny if it's romantic, but there is virtually no romance here. I didn't believe for a second that any characters fell in love during this movie. I saw no evidence of it, and the supposedly romantic scenes made me feel nothing.I think the main problem is that this movie tries to be three different things -- funny, romantic, and dark -- and it ends up being not much of any one of them. It's surely hard making a comedy or a romance set during the end of the world, so it shouldn't have been too dark; I think the level of darkness would have been fine if the comedy or the romance had been much stronger.One bright spot was that Steve Carell was fine. I like him in some things and not in others (mainly I dislike his awkward, cringey humor), and he basically plies his normal schtick here. He does a good job of it and it's the right schtick for this movie.

This movie was terrible. I expected an interesting watch as the topic would suggest. Instead there was this boring man who didn't seem to care much about anything who met this irritating female character played by Knightley. She was so fake in this role, I didn't believe her anything - when she was sad, it was fake, when she meant to be nice and thoughtful, fake again, she was just playing it so badly. I didn't manage to watch this movie till the end, waste of time. Very superficial overall, not funny, not sad, not dramatic. Nothing. I've never liked Knightley much but I thought she was a good actress, however, she definitely killed this movie. She is not a universal actress or the script was so bad that the actors gave up on it. To summarize, this is very flat, boring movie.