Recently fired and divorced Stephanie Plum (Katherine Heigl) gets desperate and takes a job as a recover agent. The big ticket happens to be an old flame from high school which she is still out to get back for his previous misdeeds. As their chemistry heats up, so does the story involving her ex who looks like he’s been set up.
As much as this movie looked like a chick flick, and it kind of was, there was no romance or steamy anything. It was modern day hard-boiled detective fictions meet the chick lit leading lady. This is a 16 part book series by Janet Evanovich. I'm hoping there is a second one. I don't think there would ever be 16 movies, but there could be a couple more. It was a fun movie and I liked Heigl in this. Not so much with the brown hair, but that was most likely for the character. She had all these great lines. The more I think about it, the naration was definitely hard-boiled fiction. There just aren't enough hard-boiled fiction movies out there. This was one a of a kind, fun and enjoyable. I think this movie is more for the female persuasion.
Based on the life of Kathryn Bolkovac, Rachel Weisz plays a cop from the US who takes a peace keeping job for the UN in post-war Bosnia 1999 only to find that women’s rights are abused.
This was a hard movie for me to watch. I couldn’t stop yelling at the TV at all the despicable people in this movie. This was a good movie to watch. It was a movie about international groups taking advantage of their power in places where the rights of individuals have been diminished where religious groups and individuals from other countries who speak another language or subject to prejudice and racism. How a woman comes to help and makes changes for the good of the people. I’m surprised that more didn’t happen to her considering what she was exposing.
Russian roulette gets taken underground to a high-stakes betting arena as men take their lives into their own hands in a game of complete chance. A young man who’s family is in financial distress which leads him to thinking outside the box for making money and takes something he has no idea what it is, but he knows will make big bucks. Somehow the young man finds himself getting himself into more than he bargained for and has no way out of.
13 was a different movie with an interesting and refreshing story. The actors participating in the life or death game were so believable. The built anxiety and tension in this made this film as good as it was. It has a decent cast of Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, Michael Shannon and Alexander Skarsgaard. The actor who stole the show was new comer Sam Riley who doesn’t have much to his resume, but I’m sure will be in a lot more movies. This was what I would consider a guys movie. Not much dialogue, man-favourite actors, guns and gambling. I’m sure it’s comparable to something, but it’s not my kind of movie to review.
Three women’s lives change as what they think is an easy job after the last one they mucked up, only to find that the situation has changed and it’s starting to look like a set-up.
This movie casts Bruce Willis, Forest Whitaker and Malin Akerman. This was an interesting movie. It had some repeat back and forth of events that already happened. Majority of the events occur in a diner on a stretch of highway somewhere in the South. I heart Bruce Willis, but I don’t think he was that great in this. Forest Whitaker as usual plays a great psychopath; I think it has something to do with his appearance. I’m sure in real life he’s a normal individual. Or maybe it’s just because he plays a psycho so well that it seems normal for him to play the role. The movie focuses on Malin Akerman’s character as the story unravels and she tries to figure out what’s really going on. This is the kind of movie you have to be in the mood for. It has a C movie charm about it. I’m surprised that this got an all-star cast, and maybe that’s why it had C movie quality, because they were paying more for the stars and not some unknown cast. I liked the movie. I wouldn’t recommend it to just anyone. It had some Quentin Tarantino flair in its aesthetics, dialogue and character development. Had the movie been more serious and the lighting different and muted lighting, it may have taken on a less serious tone. This movie felt comical in a strange way and I don’t know if it was needed. Maybe the story would have been highly unlikely otherwise without the charisma it held. As much as I enjoyed the movie, I’m on the fence of whether it was a good movie or not. It’s leaning closer to the latter.
Mallory Kane is an ex-marine turned operative who comes back from a mission in Barcelona saving a journalist. When she gets back home from the mission her boss sends her on a short mission in Dublin, only to find out that she is double crossed by someone in her agency and she is on the hunt to find the truth to stay alive and turn the tables on the ones double crossing her.
This movie has an all-star cast. The trailer for this movie was misleading. On our way out of the movie theatre, presumably a married couple asked us what we saw and if we liked it. We all watched the same movie. 1 in 4 of us liked the movie, I being the one person who liked the movie. It needed more plot or more story. It was like the Bourne series minus the memory loss and government assassin but completely missing the mark. It should have been longer and instead of relaying the story of what happened in Barcelona and Dublin to some guy in a car, they could have shown it. There was a lot of non-talking in this movie and thankfully too. Gina Carano is not an actress and never will be. It was the kind of movie where someone wanted a woman with insane fighting skills to kick men’s asses and win. It has some edgy shots, but the running scene in Barcelona, with the various street angles, was a bit much. It was neat, but after a few of those shots it was exhausting and the editor should have cut the shots and used normal shots. After that scene, the interesting shots disappear. This movie needed more and it explains the all around low ratings people are giving it. After the gentleman said he would never recommend this movie, I think I should not recommend it either. It could have been an Angelina Jolie movie, but with more plot, car chases and weapon firing besides the mixed martial arts fighting which dominated all the action scenes. The script was tailored specifically for hand to hand combat and nothing else. We all have our impressions of assassins and I think we all have the same idea that they know how to drive a car, they know mixed martial arts, they know how to wield a gun and a long range rifle and are rather stoic in personality. Either way I think it’s one of those not so good movies that I watch more than once. As opposed to movies I thought were fantastic and have only seen once.
I Don't Know How She Does It is about Kate (Sarah Jessica Parker) who is a financial executive balancing her blooming career, a husband (Greg Kinear) and two small children. Kate gets her big break and has to travel to New York to work on a project with Jack Abelhammer (Pierce Brosnan) to pitch an idea on a multi-million dollar deal. Her career becomes demanding and she starts spending more time with Jack instead of her husband and family. Tensions start bubbling in her home life and she starts finding it hard to balance a high demanding career and a family that needs her just as much.
There are a lot of reasons why this movie didn't do well. For one it's Sarah Jessica Parker. She's a hit or miss for me, but it doesn't stop me from watching her movies and not because she played Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City. She has a charming quality about her that is hard to ignore. Her problem is is that she seems to have poor chemistry between her leading men in her movies. Or at least that's how I feel about it. She had better chemistry with Pierce Brosnan than her onscreen husband Greg Kinear. Second, I think I remember her saying her husband was 35 years old in the movie. If that's the case, SJP was too old to play this character and so was everyone else.
The trailer didn't sell it enough. I liked the interview scenes of the other characters talking about Kate and what it's like to be a mother and have a family and a working life. They didn't included it in the trailer and I thought it made this movie that much more charming for me. I liked this movie because I am biased. I like chick flicks and chick lit and chick lit turned into chick flicks. Chick lit has a unique style of wit, charm, sarcasm and toe curling conflict that makes you not want to put the book down. It is its own genre and there isn't another style like it that is another genre. Even Jane Austen fits in this category. We all know that Elizabeth Bennet would have been a career woman if she were allowed to be one. The movie juggled stigmas about gender roles and that career women have to be just as much as the perfect mother role and at work be everything but a mother so that it looks like you're pulling your weight. It always seems that the home life always suffers for the career to fit the requirements of such a demanding career. I wonder if actual career women who are mothers actually watched this, or if it was all those housewives or working women who juggle everything. I wouldn't drag any guy to see this. This is a straight up women's only kind of movie. If this genre is your thing and you're looking for a light-hearted, funny and smart movie, this would be one to watch. I warn you now there is no sexual chemistry or any real romance. This is the movie about what happens after you fall in love, marry the guy and start living your happily ever after.
It's been two years since my last post on here. I remember quitting this because I was too busy working two jobs and watching crap movies and having no one reading my posts and being ludicrously angry about the kinds of movie reviewers on rottentomatoes with their awful contrite opinions. What I'm really scratching at is that the people who go to rottentomatoes aren't people who care about how well written a movie is, but if it's good. Enough about that.
The reason I decided to come back was that I was looking for a project to do. I've been thinking of things and my mind has been wandering and no definitive choice of what to take on. I really need to be in the habit of writing and not writing emails. Those don't require opinion and if they do, very minimal.
My annual formal at work is coming up, and I'm on the crew for arranging it. I've done about 20% contribution. The theme of the event is the 1920's (and the 1930's and 1940's). We had decided that we should have old movie clips playing on some banners. The banner idea didn't work, but we're using projector screens. So for the last few working days I've been working on this video. Mostly yesterday and today. The person who was supposed to download movies for me didn't download what I gave her and what she did download was movies from the 50's and onwards. Which lead to zero movie clips and not enough time to get any. I had to make do. I also decided to incorporate photos of classic movies and actors. I searched top movies of the 1920's and so on. Today I just didn't have enough volume of photos, so I tried a more comprehensive search. I stumbled up a site that had the top 100 movies of the 1930's. Voila! Inspiration happened. I am going to do the 1930's first and make my way towards the 2000's. That's 8 decades of top 100 movies to watch. Which rounds out to 800 movies. I know I watch at least 200 new movies a year, so this isn't terribly ambitious, other than I know I won't complete this in one year which is completely fine. I had read on someone else's blog that they did AFI's top 100 movie list. Anything that doesn't make the decade lists that wasn't on AFI's list, I will watch too.
How do I get my hands on these movies? Movie stores have gone the way of the Do-Do bird and are going extinct. Now I had time to grieve this. Back in November when I went to do my usual Tuesday night date with myself, ordered a pizza, went to the movie store, grabbed the new releases I was hankering to see and I made a comment at the front counter that there was nothing in the store. Then I was told that they were closing. It lead to a discussion about the awesome 90's and 2000's pre-Netflix destroying my life. We talked about my old corner movie store Captain Video, then it was Family Video, then it was Movie Gallery (which was an awful business) and then the store closed. By the time Family Video switched to Gallery, which I hated, I started going to Rogers. At this point I had a car, so the obvious choice was Rogers. I also used to go to Blockbuster, because they were open late, but after some awful customer service I never went again and I lost all love for Blockbuster. Rogers was my go to store for 8 years. It's a long time to being going to one store regularly. You know the staff. You talk to people. I left, picked up my pizza and cried all the way home. And then I called my mother crying. And I texted my BFF and cried more. I cried probably two hours. It was a sad realization of where the world is going. When I have children, I'm going to be telling stories about renting movies from a store and they're going to have no idea what I'm talking about. This event has already given me age at my whole 25 soon to be 26 year old life. I am starting to become a dinosaur and it's kind of scary.
They left one store open, but it's really horrible. I have no intention of ever renting another movie after what location they left. It's in a poorly laid out parking lot mall, next to Tim Horton's and a strange 3-way. It's a car accident waiting to happen and there are zero mall entrances. Once you pass it, it's impossible to turn around and go back. Super headache. By the time you park, you're already enraged and impatient and you go into the barely stocked store only to find no movie rentals. Thanks for wasting my time. Especially since the store is out of my way. I have no reason to ever go over there. I know I moved to the other side of the city, but it was close to work and right by my Mom's house. It was still relatively convenient. I have to come up with new ways to rent movies. Shaw on Demand has a poor movie selection. I would rather spontaneously combust before ever using Netflix, which isn't anywhere near as good as the American version of it. So I'm left with illegally downloading, streaming, renting off of one of the movie cinema stores or Apple. I want to watch it on my TV and I certainly don't want to keep anything on a computer and run it through my TV, so I am going to be relenting to Apple TV and purchasing it next month, where I can still rent movies, still get my indie and foreign films, and some obscure gallery movie and play it on my TV.
When it comes to my new project I fear the worst and will have to stream or see if the local library has any of these movies. Otherwise I think maybe TCM has something. I could be wrong. I haven't looked yet. I will be starting this project quite soon. I just need to figure out if I start at 100 and work my way to 1 or start at 1 and work my way down.
I Christen the new year and my 2 year hiatus with a movie reviw after a very long post.
Abduction 2011
I watched Abduction this evening. Not terribly awesome, but not terrible either. Sorry Taylor, but you're not a good actor. There was this scene where he's having a short monologue to his new girlfriend and I laughed. The acting was bad. What director didn't correct this? Or was this the best take they had and were getting exhausted by his lack of genuineness? The lines weren't bad, but not good, and the delivery was the only thing saving it from not being cheesy, hands on hips, pouting about lifes new turn in situation. The mild parkour by Taylor Lautner was unexpected, not necessary and entertaining. This movie could have been better. I blame that on plot and writing. They made it camp where it could have been serious and plausible. Super excited that Michael Nyqvist was in this. Wish he would stop playing a bad guy and be like a leading man in a chick flick, because damn he's sexy. I'd say it would have to be an indie chick flick. I just don't think he has the charisma to lead a blockbuster movie that has Katherine Heigl or Kate Hudson in it. This movie was entertaining and I may have nodded off for about 5 minutes, but I still rewound it, because I cared about what I was missing. I give this a 6/10. But if I were giving it an imdb rating, it would be more like 4.54 out of 10. Now lets see what imdb actually rated this movie. Imdb gave a rating of 4.4. I'm kind of good at this. I may have to start seeing how close I am at giving it an imdb rating, because this was fun.
I'm not sure what movies I'll be watching this week that are new to me, but I do know this Saturday I'm going to see Haywire. I just saw that Coriolanus is also coming out this week, I want to see two movies, but only to see the Gerry Butler. Who's curly hair looked ridiculous at the Golden Globes, but was still cute. Despite the story my sister told me about him, I am not turned off to him as an actor. I probably won't be. I just will make sure that if I ever meet him, not to have sex with him. Alright said it.
I'm back and I'm excited and invigorated to review movies again, even if only for myself.
Ps. You really need to check out the trailer for Friends With Kids. It has a phenomenally funny cast. After seeing Adam Scott in numerous movies, he really made a way into my heart after seeing Our Idiot Brother. Enjoy!
So I think this movie title is quite clever. I'm really liking Jim Sturgess as an actor. I love Ben Kingsley, but this role could have been played by anyone else. The only difficulty I had with this movie was the accents. I'm usually pretty good at hearing what people say, but I missed the whole beginning of this and what was said because of the accent barrier. They were speaking English, right? I really liked this based on true events story. It was nice new take on Ireland, the 80's and the IRA. This is a heroic story where you see a man struggle with everyday life and his double life and trying to come to terms with it all and whether what he's doing is worth the fight. This is great movie and I'm surprised by the amount of people who haven't seen this. I don't really think they advertised/marketed this one enough. I do know that it was in theatres. If you like watching movies with a meaningful story, then this might be something that would interest you.
I'm not sure what I thought this movie was about, but it certainly wasn't it. I was thinking it would be like a bunch of people going into space to save some people from a ship that went all wrong. No. I mean yes it was about something going wrong on a ship, but its only the people who are on the ship that need to work together in order to get off the damn thing. I felt like this movie was two movies. Strange. Not like Australia. It had two stories and I think I like the story it ended on. In fact, that story would have been better. Is it just me or is Dennis Quaid not playing the lead in his past few movies? I can't diss on him because he did Funny People and that movie was great. I don't know what else to say other than this movie is not what I expected. I'm certainly disappointed, but not miffed either. I don't feel like I wasted 100 minutes of my life watching this. The trailer was definitely misleading and that in and of itself is annoying. No wonder no one talked about this movie when it came out into theatres. Its an okay movie and that's all I have to say.
It's quite possible that my post might spoil your experience of the movie, so don't read this if you like not knowing what a movie is about. One of my favourite movie genres is the end of humanity and the world that we know. Sick, I know, but watching the brink of humanity succomb to survival as opposed to civility, is by far my favourite thing to watch. I think it is because there is a fine line between rationality and irrationality- Greek terms for separating man from everything else. We are some much closer to irrationality than we like to think. Its only a matter of time when some world-wide disaster makes us cross that line. I personally, would rather commit suicide than live in a world like this one. The fact that what they consider "old" is possibly 50-60 years of age. It's sad that literacy gets lost in the new generations. I'm skirting these things without hinting to anything, which is more difficult than I thought. The premise of the movie is that there is a skilled rogue man who is on a mission to deliver a very sought after book. I still don't think I like Kuniz all that much. Will I ever like her? I hope she never becomes a leading actress, because it is certain that I will never watch those movies. Denzel was great in this. The pace of the movie was slow and meticulous, just like Denzel's character. I like how what happened to Earth is revealed to us not as a narration, but how the story unfolds and how they talk about the past that reveals the present situation. The more I reflect on the movie, the more I realize how much I enjoyed it. Although, I don't think this movie is for everyone, since there are many people who don't like to watch movies where they have to look under the surface to see the story unfold in ways that the visuals could never do.
This is a beatiful movie. Its painfully sad and hopeful at the same time. Saoirse Ronan was great in this role. She has to be one of my favourite young actress. Stanley Tucci was brilliant in this. I did find his blue contacts very creepy in this. As great as he was playing George Harvey, I don't want to see him play roles like these all that often. I want him to play Mr. Child more often. The visuals of this movie were beautiful. It's really sad to see a girl who was about to have some of her first experiences in life and losing them all to quickly. The fact that she lingered on those feelings is what made her so endearing and believable. I can imagine that the book is even better than this movie. You would never believe that Jackson turned New Zealand into Portland. I think this movie should be experienced as opposed to talked about. To brush up on the other characters, Weisz was forgettable. Was it the writing or the acting? Wahlberg was great in this. The scenes where they blend the scale-model boats was beautiful. Sometimes movies translate the visuals so much better than a book could ever do. I think that this movie added that to the book. This was a great film and I highyly recommend it.
For something that Ricky Gervais wrote, this was bad. He's such a great writer, I can't believed this failed. Its quite possible that this is hsi first movie he wrote and that he was a collaboration with someone else. It does deserve some praise. It was orginal until it got to the pizza box tablets. Although the questions people asked in that scene were comical. I really liked the beginning of this movie. It has a 50's/60's comedy element that we don't see that often anymore, unless it's a remake or something that is dated in that time. In that respect it was refreshing. I love how people can't lie, so they say exactly what's on their minds. In itself, those things are funny. I also liked that Mark Bellison creates the most stupidest fiction. The worst writer writes the dumbest fiction pieces and everyone loves them kills me. You think someone with exceptional writing and flair for language would have invented lying. What a powerful thing to be the only person able to lie. Total domination. For Bellison's case, he has some moral character and uses his ability to become rich and famous. Would we all be that superficial if we had a gift that no one else possessed in the world? The idea that fiction doesn't exist is entirely interesting and thought provoking. It's what made this film so smart for me. Garner was hilarious in this. I can't imagine that we would only pick people to fall in love with based on the genetics for future offspring. That seems a bit far-fetched, even for me. People with that mentality shouldn't breed because they will just create more stupid superficial morons. If you're a Gervais fan, you should watch this, but I warn you, it's just not very good.
To jump right into it, this is the first time I've seen Penn Badgley play a different character that isn't like Dan Humphrey- Gossip Girl. I liked that he wasn't sarcastic, cynical and down right annoying sometimes. I really don't want to talk about this one. I liked it a lot. I thought the ending was blah. I thought some things were unneccesay. What's her name, that blonde girl that's appeared in The Informers and Pineapple Express and something else has yet to act outside of herself. I'm sure she's playing herself, but she does have great hair. I'm surprised by the casting for the mother. The actress seems like she has a strong sense of herself, so it comes out in her character, but her character is supposed to be naive and weak. So the translation was odd. I'm also surprised that they decided to have the mother's sister be a lesbian and a lipstick lesbian at that. I thought that was odd too. Don't get me wrong, of course there can be lesbian aunts in movies, but I felt the script was trying to be ultra-trendy. Anyways, this one was okay. I might actually watch this one again. When though, I don't know. It was good for what it was.
Of all the people I discussed this movie with, all of them liked it- except Jack who ranted about how much he wanted to know about why the world ended up the way it did (which is actually irrelevant to the story), but me. I also know a couple people who say this is the all-time favourite book on this planet. I think this movie should have stayed a book. In fact, I bet the book is really incredible. I think that whoever decided to produce this, was hoping it would have No Country For Old Men success. I felt like this movie had no purpose. The ending itself did not fill me with hope like the story should have. Someone said if we did lose electricity and whatnot that we would have to go back to the fat of the land, but in this story its virtually impossible to start a life like of a more basic time since there is no life on Earth. I think it's related to Global warming and a rip in out atmosphere that everything burned up. This story has cannibalism, loss of humanity and the burning desire to find someplace better. I do find it sad that most of the people who survive are despicable specimens of the human race. I would hope that it would be better people carrying on what's left of humanity until it can flourish once again. To conclude, Mortensen was fantastic in this. Roles like these are made for him. I can't imagine who else they could have chosen for a part like this one. He plays stripped of human dignity like no one else. I hope he gets recognized for it in the future.
I remembering reading an article about Clooney playing our favourite facets of him in one person. In a way, I see how that comment is true. But in another way, I thought Clooney was playing the character the way he was supposed to, which happens to be all the Clooney's we like. I do have to say, this movie is a lot sadder than I had expected. It wasn't that I was looking for a specific ending, but this one was disappointing for me. It makes me feel like the rest of my life is going to turn out just as bleek, when I'm looking for a change or are ready for it and have open arms for it, and then it never happening. Anna Kendrick was great in this. She was perfect for the role. It was strange to see her go from a minimal role like her in Twilight and then see her as a co-star to such an A-list actor. I thought the casting of this movie was perfect. The success of a movie also depends on the chemistry and interaction between the characters and the actors who play the characters. Jason Reitman did great directing. He looked slightly miffed that he didn't win more awards at the Globes last Sunday after he won for best screenplay. I really wanted to tell him that his movie was good, but there were better movies than his and he should not think that his movie will get any Oscar noms, because well, I don't think it should get any Oscar noms. Its a story about a man who thinks human contact is vital, yet avoids it in his personal life. A very strange combination in a person who makes a living selling his philosophy on these things.
This movie plays like all romantic comedies do. For me, the genre never gets old. The twist, Adams' character is waiting for her boyfriend to propose, but he doesn't. An age old Irish tradition is for a womann to propose to a man on leap day. Adams' character flies to Ireland, only to be washed out and trying to find someone who will take her to Dublin in order to propose on leap day. Disasters ensue as her and Goode's character clash and heat up between the two. For one, I liked that the femme had a different career than do most of the women in this type of genre. I also liked the whole red-haired American taking Ireland by storm. It was a cute movie, entirely predictable blah blah blah. Either way, looking for a good chick flick, this is it.
This movie had some winning qualities and a new spin on vampires, but it just didn't do it for me. For one, my biggest gripe was that the vampires weren't sexy. They were vile and completely lost their dangerous exotic factor. I liked the Subsiders- the depraved vampires of human blood whom became bats of some sort. The movie took a turn for the worse when Willem Dafoe had the cheesy accent and called himself 'Elvis' with his terrible references to songs. What killed it for me was the non-sensical blood bath at the end. Vampires ripping heads and limbs off was unnecessary and I felt that the Spiereg brother's were adding something they wanted to see that just didn't belong. The acting was fine. I thought Ethan Hawke wasn't overly slimy in this. Shocker. This is a rental movie. I would recommend this to watch on DVD. This wasn't worth the trip on opening night to see. The trailers made it look better than it was. It had potential, it just didn't quite deliver.
I didn't know this was a documentary style film. The amount of people I knew who watched this, I was surprised no one said anything. To be honest, this movie wouldn't have been as good as it was if hadn't been a documentary type. Although, once we got into the story, it lost its documentary feel, which should have been present throughout the whole film. Its not what I was expecting. I thought the refugee camps were upsetting. It was definitely realistic. As much as I liked the story, I don't think I liked it. There wasn't much going on without the refugee camps. I think I liked it as much as I did was because I had no idea what it was about other than aliens stuck on Earth. It was a refreshing take on extra-terrestrials, so its winning in the original and creative department. This movie is a great discussion piece with the parallel with the apartheid's and the "Prawns". This was interesting movie and even after watching this 3 weeks ago, I'm still unsure about it.
I'm embarrassed to say this, but I actually liked this movie. I do agree with my friend that Cody used to much "hip" slang that I'm sure no one uses. Looking back at Juno, the characters did the same thing. Probably the most exciting thing about this movie was Adam Brody in eyeliner. Excuse me sir, but damn. Please where eyeliner all the time. Chip looked like an enfant, but he's actually in his early twenties. Megan Fox was okay. I don't who else could have even played Jennifer other than Fox. Weird. The whole psychiatric hospital thing, especially the ending was lame. Seyfreid is so pretty, they really gave her the worst wardrobe and hideous pink 80's dress and hair. I remember the paparrazzi photos of Megan Fox wearing nude skivvies in order to appear naked. Although they never said they were filming this for this movie. I can't hate on this one. I would like to recommend it even though I know it wasn't great.
This nine movie I'm not so enthusiastic about. It was rife with holes. So many story holes that I'm still stuck on them. Things like soul's having knowledge. Sorry, but no. You don't suddenly come alive, and know what everything is. There was also the size perspective. It felt like the world only existed in one city and only one city. The story didn't stretch to the destruction of all human life on Earth. Just that one small location. Looking beyond the huge techical flaws, it wasn't too bad. It was an original story, so I have to give credit there. I'm certain there are more people who loved it than hated it. I don't know if I could sit through this movie a second time.
