Surprisingly incoherent and boring

I'll tell you why so serious

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Alien and other species invading our planet! I adore these movies but this one was utterly ridiculous! Concern over aliens having votes on government issues in our society, living amongst us? Having 'rights'? Simply ludicrous!!! The acting was so over the top from both the children, their parents and the human-alien was diabolical!!! I watched this silly movie on Netflix and it's given me more reasons why I should unsubscribe! Bonkers!!!! Not worthy of 1 star but I've given it 2 simply because I felt sorry for the 2 children and their parents for the fees it cost for these children to attend drama classes! Diabolical!!!!

When are they finally going to stop making so many redundant, derivative and overly pretentious new zombie movies?!? No wait… Better question: when am I finally going to stop watching all those redundant, derivative and overly pretentious new zombie movies? If there are two sub genres that have truly outstayed their horror welcome, it's the light-headed zombie comedy and the depressing zombie apocalypse drama. The first of the two can still be enjoyable, in case you manage to switch off all brain functions, but the latter are usually very tiresome and pompous movies from aspiring young directors that desperately try to add something new without realizing that literally everything has been done before in the zombie film industry. The unique selling point of this "Extinction" (apart from the fact that it's a Spanish-American- Hungarian-French co-production) is an allegedly heart-wrenching sub plot about two fathers emulating for the love of their 9-year-old daughter Lu and, later in the film, the strange discovery that the zombies have seemingly evolved into robotic/mutant type of creatures. Their bite apparently isn't infectious anymore and they communicate with each other through shrieks, but seriously who cares? There's quite a bit of action in the opening ten minutes of the film, with a bus full the humanity's final survivors violently getting invaded by a horde of zombies, and then the plot leaps forward nine years in time. The world turned into a snowy apocalyptic wasteland and former love-rivals Jack and Patrick live as neighbors but don't interact with each other in a town called – ha ha – Harmony! Even though they haven't spotted a zombie in years, Jack is totally paranoid and doesn't allow his daughter Lu to set foot outside of the house. Patrick sends out radio broadcasts and goes out hunting with his dog. When the new and improved zombies return, they are forced to set aside old disputes and rivalries in order to survive. 80% of "Extinction" is dull and predictable. The remaining 20%, the opening and climax, aren't dull but nevertheless predictable and identical to dozens of other zombie flicks. The drama aspects entirely miss their effect and, in fact, aren't even that remarkable. Truly worthwhile zombie apocalypse dramas do exist but are rather scarce, like "The Battery" for example, while "Extinction" is just another millionth forgettable zombie flick.

(Not to be confused with the Dinosaur drama of the same name from 2014, this film is adapted from the zombie novel 'Y pese a todo/And Despite Everything' by Juan de Dios Garduno.) Jeffrey Donovan stars with great intensity as Jack. His face may be familiar to horror fans as Jeffrey Patterson in 'Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2' (he was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for one half of the Worst Screen Couple in that much maligned film). Here, he and a little girl, the impetuous Lu (a brilliant Quinn McColgan) are two survivors of a zombie attack on a bus attempting to transport people to a 'safe zone' nine years earlier. Now, the world is in the biting grip of a very impressively imagined snow-scape. They meet up with Patrick, also a survivor of the attack and a character with his own story to tell, who is played with sensitivity by Matthew Fox. At one point we see a frozen cinema advertising screenings of 'At the Mountains of Madness' – maybe this is an in-joke: a film adaption of this HP Lovecraft story has been promised and 'in the works' for some time now. It seems the filmmakers here are suggesting the world will have frozen over before it sees fruition! 'Extinction' is a fairly intimate story of human tragedy and forgiveness with a freezing backdrop of both a second ice age, and the evolution and adaption of the zombie creatures still in existence. Amongst the hopelessness, there is a scattering of heart-warming moments – Jack, Lu and Patrick turning from enemies to (almost) friends over a meal instigated by the youngster. And if the image of a bedraggled man cradling his dead dog, himself attacked and wounded by a zombie, across a picture postcard apocalypse doesn't bring a tear to the eye, the viewer must have a hardened heart.Filmed in Hungary and Spain, the constant dazzling white makes for a stunning visual framework for the well-acted human drama that unfolds. Very occasionally, moments threaten to cross the line into overt sentimentality, but manage to rein themselves in with commendable restraint. Only moments after Patrick assures everyone that 'no-one is going to die,' it is his sacrifice that allows Jack, Lu and a nameless new arrival (Clara Lago) the possibility of freedom – albeit uncertain.

The world has come to an end, flesh hungry zombies now inhabit the planet, only two men, Patrick and Jack, and Jack's daughter Lu survived. Living in the aptly named town of Harmony, which is now snow covered and surviving only just. A divide separates Patrick and Jack, but soon they must unite when the Zombies hit the town.I had read the usual reviews an was almost put off, it's true we have been swamped with Zombie movies over the last few years. You can't even visit a Cinema without the latest offering attempting to outdo the last. But there is something strangely enjoyable about Extinction, put together in an altogether more serious and grown up manner it has some very good points, some really strong production values, it certainly looks good, it's well acted, Matthew Fox puts in a good shift, even if he is hardly recognisable from the Lost days. Some great tension, a few jumpy moments.On the downside the film is overlong, at almost two hours I did lose interest a few times, some of the scenes are a bit too dialogue heavy, they could definitely have done a bit of editing to get it to ninety minutes. At times the story seems almost small scale, considering the enormity of what's occurred, the confines make it a bit small at times. Some aspects of the storyline were glaringly obvious too, you knew what was coming.Not a film you'd go raving about the monsters and the effects, it's more then that, it focuses more on the characters, the story of survival and human relationships. Pretty good, 7/10