How It Ends
The story takes place in the future where the world is at stake after it exposed to a mysterious apocalyptic event. People believe that this is the world's end. Among disasters, there is this man who struggles and tries to do his best to reach his wife who is about to get their next baby.
11 October 1957, St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada
7 May 1984, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
August 4, 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
28 February 1958, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
24 February 1989, British Columbia, Canada
7 October 1970, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
5 September 1989, Geneva, Switzerland
14 May 1964
July 13, 2018
How It Ends would have been well served to ask itself a few big questions.
July 13, 2018
Impressive looking, but undercut by passive characterizations. And how's it end? By petering out.
July 16, 2018
The story has a clear-cut destination, but the technique makes the journey there and there itself aimless while watching and pointless when done.
July 19, 2018
Delivers the vague shape of the apocalypse, but it's a frustrating sit, continually interrupting compelling stretches of drama and terror with low-wattage stunts and tedious sequences of back roads survival.
July 16, 2018
Theo James has gotten good at playing this one kind of protagonist; he's like the exact midpoint between all of the overwhelmed-but-capable disaster movie heroes you've ever seen.
July 17, 2018
It's competently made and easy to watch, but you know every move the thriller wants to make before it happens.
July 13, 2018
You're better off not even beginning.
July 13, 2018
It's always just a bit too easy to see the writer's hand at work, which serves to undercut immersion and identification.
July 25, 2018
Violent, profanity-filled tale lacks logic and resolution.
July 16, 2018
Forest Whitaker's performance is just terrible. You can tell the director, David M Rosenthal, had no power over him. He just did his character-which the script failed to fully develop and exploit-his own damn way.
July 16, 2018
The desire to fast-forward becomes almost overpowering.
