The Quiet Earth
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Movie Reviews of The Quiet Earth
Movie Review: A great independent Sci-Fi flick!? Get outta here!
Summary: 4 Stars
If you are looking for spaceships and aliens putting on spectacular displays of CGI enhancements, this may not be for you. On the other hand, if you like something other than the norm, this one may be just what the doctor ordered. Very entertaining and why not, it's possibly the end of the world...!Movie Review: A subtle, more atmospheric feel for the Post Apocalyptic genre
Summary: 4 Stars
This is not the typical post apocalyptic film, it builds much more slowly and has a much more subtle style.Movie Review: The Quiet Earth
Summary: 4 Stars
This was a decent character piece. I actually think this is the way it normally is in New Zealand.Movie Review: Partway a great film.
Summary: 3 Stars
The first 50 or so minutes of this film are terrific. The late Bruno Lawrence plays Zac Hobson, a scientist in New Zealand who wakes up one morning to find that everyone except him seems to have vanished from the face of the earth. We see him trying to cope with this state of affairs, going crazy and then slowly regaining his sanity while the world is silent around him. In these scenes, Lawrence gives a bravura performance which manages to stop short of hamming it up and really gets you caring about Zac's frail psyche. His descent and renewal are as gripping as any great moviemaking could be, done with only a few words, a few poignant gestures and deft editing and camerawork.
Zac then finds out that he's not alone after all: first, a young woman named Joanne and then a burly Maori lorry-driver named Api find him and the three of them try to puzzle out why they're still on Earth and everyone else has vanished. It's at this point that the movie gets pretty soggy. There's a rather flimsy plotline about how an experiment funded by the big, bad USA somehow brought about this catastrophe, a love triangle that comes about just when you're hoping a love triangle WON'T come about, and an ending that smacks of the story petering out, as opposed to leaving you with tantalizing unanswered questions. So that's disappointing. But the first 50 minutes of THE QUIET EARTH are right up there with the first hour of THE BLACK STALLION, where the director uses all of the cinematic tools at his disposal to help you experience Zac Hobson's despair fully and completely. That's worth the viewing in and of itself.
Movie Review: Quiet Down Under
Summary: 3 Stars
Yes, it's a film from the under-side of the world, but it's not from Australia, but New Zealand.
Sci-fi about the last few people on earth following a strange scientific experiment it has the further unusual premise that all those survived were on the point of death at the exact time of the accident.
Other than that there's not too much going for what I found to be a rather dull film about three people coming to terms with their new situation. I guess I was expecting them to fight evil mutants or something. Instead it's just the 'drama' of the three coming to terms.