Absolutely the worst movie.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

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

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

The end of the world tomorrow but---everything is open and there is total calm on the street. People casually go about their business and the main characters even get take-out delivered. Everyone's ready to die tomorrow. Not much you can really do when you don't have any sort of budget. Except---well---don't do it? Just forget doing a movie like this? If you're Able Ferrara, you just stay at home and let all your heroin- addicted friends spend a quiet night at home without you bangin' on the door and asking them to improv about the end of the world.I guess that leaves a lot of time for self-reflection about life and death? More like boring casual conversation, babble and lingering shots. And plenty of stock footage.

**Spoiler alert!!** I may unintentionally reveal plot *laugh, laugh* elements I am stunned at the way some filmmakers and actors think they can do a movie and make a political statement and think by making it pretentious, it will be all that much more important. Enter this piece of pretentious garbage! I don't have anything good to say about this except that it finally ended. Everything is wrong about this film. The science is laughable (how the world is supposed to end). The characters are irritating, unlikable human trash and even worse, stupid! I kept praying they would get killed sooner rather than later. The camera work is terrible (you can actually see the jerky motor drive motion). The special effects (if you can call them that) are worse than a teenage kid does on his laptop nowadays. The poorly included soundtrack required turning the sound down it was so irritating. I don't know what more I can say to warn you not to waste your time.Let me try one last angle. If you consider yourself a liberal, this is the type of trash conservatives think you come up with which is why they don't take you seriously. If you are conservative, this is such liberal garbage, you won't want to waste your time watching this.

Judgement day is upon us. Having raped Mother Earth for resources we have brought about her death with her essence dilapidated and ravaged, thus bringing about an abrupt end to all life, as we die en masse with a bright light of an ozone layer mega-burp. People attempt to cope with the inevitable, mostly be lingering around a computer with Skype access to say farewells, or just start jamming out some sick melodies online. A successful young painter Skye (Shanyn Leigh) and her elderly famous actor lover Cisco (Willem Dafoe) spend their last days next to each other, mostly absent in mind and body, occasionally getting down and dirty with sex the ultimate completion of love.Resident American bad-boy Abel Ferrara grinned across the red carpet in Venice in 2011 with his apocalyptic end of days summary of human existence. Closer to the self-flagellatory oblivious oblivion of von Trier's "Melancholy" (also with respect to possessing an equally idiotic premise for Earth's demise) than the light-weight, but emotionally engrossing "A Friend for the End of the World", Ferrara's independent drama dwells in overly prolonged moments, which litter the movie, but fail to fill it with substance.Rough around the edges (to say the least) this poke at sci-fi follows the same old path as most art-house directors attempting to venture into the genre: they introduce an absolutely absurd plot and justify this laziness with 'symbolism' and 'higher purpose'. Maybe not as idiotic as the incoming planet Melancholia, but still thinly layered and done with much less poetry than von Trier. Here we have a notion introduced that 'Al Gore was right' and that the depleted ozone layer will cause the world to burst into flames at one precise moment, ie. 4:44 AM (not even the biggest pessimists of global warming would ever conceive something as absurd). Meanwhile, before this sudden blast of fiery fury life goes on as usual, even on judgement day street life seemingly unchanged (apart from certain minor events), while no cosmic events lead up to the inevitable. Cisco portrays culpability of every single human being through a dream sequence, where he cuts down a tree. Basically showing the heavy-handed approach chosen by Ferrara. Now... I can be labelled somewhat of an eco-nut, but the symbolic premise is brutally thin and sloppily added on, with no true feel that the end of days is upon us (a far cry from the limited ambitions of "A Friend for the End of the World").Dropping the eco-pretext and letting it linger in the background the movie is about ending, closing and accepting. But is closure ever possible? Maybe not, but acceptance is inevitable. Here we labour down this path following the whirlwind emotions with snail's pace. Furthermore with death creeping ever closer we find Skye more intrigued with finishing her final painting, while Cisco spends time peeping through binoculars into other people's houses, possibly Ferrara's suggestion that detachment was natural, while only the ultimate end pulls people back into each others arms. Nonetheless this solitude near the end serves to offer two worthwhile scenes in the movie. The first involves a Vietnamese immigrant, who still delivers food on judgement day, simply because he is disconnected from his family abroad and in his lonely desperation decides not to alter his path. The other has Cisco observing other people during the final minutes of existence and almost admiring how they cope with the inevitable. Two scenes alone which made the movie a passable experience, even if the contrived dysfunctional relationship of Cisco and Skye just drags along to a poetically unsatisfying conclusion.

Don't waste any time watching this movie. Is it possible to rate a movie with a negative number? Just saying! It's an "artsy fartsy film, minus the artsy. I would like to say this isn't the worst film ever, but I can't think of a movie I have ever watched that was worse. If you are going to watch this movie I would recommend the following steps. Step one, get a big bowl of popcorn. Two, get your favorite soda. Next get comfy in your favorite chair, then, start movie. Then walk over to TV, pick it up and throw it out your window. Then sit back down and enjoy your popcorn and pop. The film is slow, poor audio quality, and its biggest sin of all is it's boring.