Best movie of this year hands down!

Memorable, crazy movie

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

First off Australian and or New Zealand movies are usually great. This is no exception. Scientist Zac Hobson awakens (or so it seems) to be the last man on Earth. Slowly he figures out there was an effect that basically made everyone disappear from the planet except those who were at the very second of death. After almost going nuts and off the deep end, he finds another. Then another. The effect keeps having small signs of happening again and actually destroying the entire Earth so he has to act. The three get together and build a bomb big enough to make sure the sending station blow up so it can't send a signal round the world to make this happen. Zac, Joanne, and Api, are all great in the movie. All have different personalities, and none are overdone or directed to be so it seems. The dialog is good and never gets boring. The FX are fine for the day and there aren't too many thankfully. I have read a lot of reviews on this movie since I watched it for the first time, and a lot of those pan the ending but I personally like it. Well worth the watch, I watch it about once a year or so since it is a very good science fiction movie in my favorite subject for Sci Fi movies.

I watched this movie for the first time in 2012 and it promptly became my favorite movie of all time. It starts with a man waking into the world alone. It explores themes of existential questioning, rebirth, and love/betrayal. By the end of the movie, this film leaves you questioning these very things but in your own vastly populated world. I'm a huge movie fan and it's rare I ever get to discover a movie that stops me in my tracks. There is just no movie I can compare this to, except maybe Moon, or Silent Running, just in that they make you question the futility of existence and happen to be in the sci-fi genre. I cannot recommend this film enough, there's nothing like it.

This is one of those movies that after seeing you'll be thinking hey what a great movie . It's a film that lingers long in the memory then when you see it again you're left thinking , oh I wonder why I liked it so much ? There's little dispute as to why I thought it so good first time I saw it and that's because of the very memorable ending which overwhelmed all the other elements of the film that came before itTQE has a very old fashioned attitude to science as in " These nasty scientists have just gone and destroyed the human race again " which was common in 1950s sci-fi where nearly every alien menace was a metaphor for the atomic bomb . Yes science might have given humanity the power to destroy itself but it's also given us medicine , electricity and the internet so the good outweighs the bad It's a film that has three distinct acts with one being Zac waking up to find himself alone and flirting with madness caused by his loneliness , the second act featuring Zac finding a fellow survivor Joanne and the third act dealing with sexual rivalries caused by a third protagonist Api joining the duo . It's not often you see all the men in the world fighting over a ginger and this is probably the first and last film you'll see this as a premise In this type of film which concentrates on character instead of action and spectacle it's important that the casting is perfect but unfortunately I wasn't compelled by the acting . Bruno Lawrence is merely okay , Alison Routledge is bland and Pete Smith lacks the dangerous edge his character cries out for . I read online that Jack Nicolson was asked to play Zac but wanted too much money and perhaps the producers would have been better getting a well known bad boy actor to play Api The film ends with a great image which makes the film . Of course when you're left to ask what it means in both he context of the film and a possible future for Zac you'll be be left scratching your chin . In effect this is one of these movies that is remembered for its imagery or rather one final image at the end . Everything leading up to it isn't all that good except perhaps for the deserted streets sequences

This is a great little Sci-Fi from the eighties. A guy wakes up one day and it appears every other human on the planet has disappeared.In some ways it is a little bit dated with its 80's obligatory dream sequence and dodgy sound track; but coming from a time when censors actually censored stuff there is hardly any gore and sex. So unlike its modern counterparts it has to rely quite a lot on character, story, and setting.It hits all these areas easily. The 'quiet' sequences are very well done.The story is fairly linear compared to modern films so if you are used to things exploding every few seconds or expect a deviously clever twist at the end you may be disappointed.Otherwise this is a great movie and I am sure movie fans will be watching it 50 years from now.