Well, that plot twist... I didn't see it coming.
Don't listen to all the avacado toast eaters giving poor reviews... if you love sci fi.. it's a good watch with a good twist.. and it's free so stfu
Just started watching this...39 min in and I need Lucy to STFU. Her heavy breathing and crying is working on my nerves and let's just pull the batteries from Herman before they all die. Hope it gets better.
If you find yourself with an hour and a half spare, do yourself a favour......go for a walk.
Nice twist to the invasion from another planet gendre. If the youngest kid was mine though, I'd have put a bullet through the back of her skull within the first 10minutes... 7/10
Very mediocre.
It's about ~15minutes of psychological mystery, ~40minutes of a very poor Alien-apocalypse generic flick, a few minutes for a twist~ then some also-ran action scenes to the end.
Honestly the first 15mins felt very promising, but so much of the run time is just really cliche run and hide action scenes with some very weak CGI. The closing shot is what you'd expect from a video game cutscene around 10 years ago.
When you stop for 5 seconds and consider what must be happening on the world stage (we see just one area of one city) a lot more questions are asked than answered.
interesting twist on the story.
well acted by Michael Pena, he was the only one though :)
crappy script for the most part and I'd have throttled those kids if I was the parent - they were totally annoying.
Nice plot twist I didn't see coming,nothing special,easy to watch flick
Loved it.
Always good to see a movie that isn't easy predict.
It's hard to sympathize with these synth if they were the ones occupying earth also Michael Peña is not that good in Drama or in Action they should off casted Ramon Rodriguez .. Excellent twist but poor execution and ridiculous how they made the suit of humans look like alien skins just to trick viewers ..
Felt more like a first episode of the beginning of a series then a movie. Very open ending. Nice easy watching.
I though it was ok, not the best though.
I wouldn't mind seeing this as a series, but with more than 10 episodes a season
I really wanted to like it more, but it just felt too generic and without depth. It's not that terrible tho.
The idea was good but it was poorly done ...
Nightmares or premonitions? The girl I would have thrown on the balcony for her screams and bother, attack at night to save money, I like how the tone changes
Terrible movie. The kids were 100% the worst part of the movie. .
The action is extremely generic, some of the scenes are way too dark in HDR (Game of thrones season 8 syndrome) and the dialogue by the children was very annoying. Everytime a child spoke on screen, it was annoying. The only credit I will give is the premise itself.
A good premise shoved into a generic cheap action movie.
Again, like most Netflix SF stuff, this is basically an extended episode of the Outer Limits. The main interest of the movie is the twist, which, even if it is been done before, is really unexpected and well used. So well used that it compensates for the rest of the movie.
Before that comes some generic boring pre catastrophe scenes and the attack part which is good enough. Like every other comment points out, the girl and her monkey are incredibly annoying. The other girl playing elevator operator as a hobby was disturbing but fun.
Sadly after the twist, basically nothing happens. They just run to catch a train, that's it. They do not really interact with another invader, do not talk of the consequences or what will happen. The invader explains he was not told he was sent to shoot families and kids, that's why he helped. There is not a single meaningful dialogue or action afterwards.
There could be the very classic underlying philosophical message about "Are AI really alive ?", but here the fact that some seem to be able to develop some basic emotions like a kind of relationship, but mostly fear and survival instinct, is immediately cheapened by the fact they actually reprogram themselves to be families, putting huge doubt about the authenticity.
Interesting idea but all other is average
Yess, the movie is definately mysterious, has action and interesting story. Best thing is, I didn't know anything about the story before I watched this and it turns out to be really good. One of the better movies I watched this year, I recommend it!
Good sci-fi film And amazing plot twist but i felt it was dragged and all over the place
The twist was nice, but this film reallly felt like they took a 43 minute TV pilot and stretched it unsuccessfully into a 90 minute film.
Call me selfish but I will not the robots rule the earth.
Simply crap. Such a waste of time.
I wish I could get back these last 96 minutes.
I am a sucker for apocalyptic movies so I had high hopes and sadly this movie didn't meet those hopes. While it starts out interesting, it dulls out quite quickly and it manages to come back but not nearly good enough. for me, it was quite clear that the 'aliens' could be either human or an advanced human species. It turned out halfway through the movie that they were in fact humans, escaped to Mars because the Robots took over. This was an interesting twist because I didn't see the Robot angle coming, but the characters lacked depth, the plot could've gone deeper and darker and the ending was super predictable and quite boring. Good to watch on a lazy night in but don't expect too much.
all the script is just terrible
I liked this movie a lot! The story surprised me several times and I cared about the characters. Micheal Pena was really great as a serious leading actor.
I absolutely loved the visuals! I recommend it to anyone who likes sci-fi.
Good idea but it annoyed me how constantly the kids were allowed to put themselves in danger that it kinda killed the movie for me
The only human to show any kindness in the film said it; AI drove humans from earth, and this process probably included some genocide. But hey, no bigs. We're supposed to feel compassion for the AI now because this movie says so. At the end Peter expresses hope that since AI is still evolving, there could be a future where AI and humans live together in peace (at least I think that was the implication). According to this film's thesis, humans will just have to live through genocide and a forced evacuation of the entire fucking planet on the hope that, eh, maybe AI will evolve to have a heart at some point. The writing was poorly thought out, and as others have said, the filmmaker missed an opportunity to offer a real philosophical discussion on the subject matter (similar to the first season of Westworld). As others. have said, the girls were annoying, which, I hate to say, prevented me from really caring about them, and what was up with that one girl's creepy haircut? Also, the filmmakers must have had an affinity for the color green. It was everywhere, from the main characters outfits to the interior design to the lighting. Overall, this was a poorly conceived film that left a lot of potential on the table. Maybe save money on the action shit, which was run of the mill fare anyway, and put that cash into better, more compelling and engaging writing.
Crappy storytelling. Didn't anyone ever hear about "Show, don't tell"?
Loved this. I wish they evolved this into a sci-fi series. This movie would make a great pilot episode.
The plot twist just saved the whole movie. I was almost giving up. Ps: Lucy is freaking annoying.
My God, that small girl crying is so annoying. I really care that she is scared, but listing to half an hour of crying is annoying.
I actually liked this movie. Michael Pena surprised me, cause I'm used to him being the comedian. He turned out to be better than I thought. Interesting story line too.
wasn’t what I expected and it got real dumb when the plot twist is exposed
Yes, kind of silly, but it was fun and I gotta admit I enjoyed it...
Major plot twist which ultimately made the film way better than i thought.
Kind of interesting twist, but the premise of the movie seems wholly unbelievable. Why would robots wants to pretend to be human after they took over the planet?
Worst film i ever seen.
[6.5/10]
Netflix' Extinction is an enjoyable movie that turns out to be more than it appears to be on first sight, but it isn't necessarily a good one.
Right off the bat, this film seems to start off pretty generic, with the main character talking in the background about some seemingly semi-philosophical lessons that these events we are about to see have taught him, like so many - in reality shallow - movies do in their attempts to appear to have something to say. It already left me with pretty low expectations for what's to come, but in hindsight it actually makes sense. I do think, however, they could have started the movie better than with typical narration that doesn't add anything to the actual story-telling.
The introduction to our characters are all in all decently done. All are fairly likeable, even the stubborn children, which can often turn out to be really annoying, and characters don't go out of their way to act stupidly to create drama and tension. Peter's visions are putting a convincingly conveyed strain on his life and psyche and what you first think to be a cheap, typical gimmick, turns out to make a decent amount of sense after the twist.
The twist is basically the one thing that makes this movie interesting, even if the premise has so much wasted potential. In the first half of the movie the invasion was a pain to watch. The "aliens" with organic looking armour make swarm sounds as they pass by, they have unnecessarily large bayonets to poke through walls, because why not, their best strategy is to go from room to room to kill innocents, whilst huge helicopters armed with explosives that can bring down an entire skyscraper simply drive from window to window and search individuals with what amounts to a big flashlight. I, as someone who has avoided spoilers, simply had to sigh through a lot of these segments, reaffirming my fear that this is just another one of of those movies.
The CGI wasn't particularly good, I didn't feel much for the neighbours and probably sensing that, the filmmakers pretty quickly killed them off. The dramatic moments, such as when the window cleaner balcony crashes down or the little girl doesn't run towards the tunnels, as the helicopter very slowly arrives, feel all very blank and didn't really pull me in as much as they should. On top of that our protagonist figures out the technology of an alien culture and manages to reprogram the trigger of a gun, that can only be pulled by its owner due to the organic scanner, during a gunfight and then bests any number of soldiers that would dare meet him in the narrow hallways.
Then, as they find refuge at the government facility, things start to get interesting. To treat Peter's wife, Alice, they use weird electrical devices and the government seems oddly prepared for all of this. All of it is revealed at last, when the captured human invader offers his help and cuts open Alice, showing us the robotic inner workings, as Peter nearly breaks down and the human captive, Miles, stares at him in disbelief, unaware that they didn't know "what they were". Finally, when Peter shares some of what powers him with his wife, he starts to remember. Androids have become incredibly sophisticated, so much so that the public opinion has started to shift against them, as they began to best humans in every way imaginable. It all worsened when the first robots hospitalized a few humans in self-defense and showed the first signs of true emotion. In an arguably paranoid effort to protect their own race, so to speak, the humans have begun to try and eradicate the entire robot population. The robots, however, had significant physiological advantages over the humans and fought back, which eventually led to the evacuation of the entire Earth.
The androids, being left with their own world, suddenly had to discover one of the many unpleasant effects of having emotions: an unending sense of guilt. This realization for our protagonist is well executed by having him and Alice stumble upon two (injured) android children (and the fact that there are robotic children actually make sense in this world) who mourn over their parents, who have been shot down on the street, because they were human. Faced with all of this, the overall general android public made a unique decision. They chose to forget. They had their minds swept and assumed the identities of the humans that lived before them. Eventually, they even forgot that they were not humans after all. That is truly a unique and interesting premise and I wish they would have done much more with it.
Instead, we only get into numerous gunfights, until they get on an armoured metro wagon and drive into the sunset, whilst the government official, who had to remember, tells Peter and us that now everyone will need to wake up and fight back.
Extinction doesn't have a lot to say, it is not a movie with a lot of depth and hardly has a satisfactory ending or story-arch. However, even if not good, it is a decent movie and I would encourage anyone to see it, simple because of the uniqueness of the premise. The actors that are featured in this film do a good job with what they're given and so they make it an enjoyable, if shallow, ride.
The basic premise of this film is so terrifically flawed that it's impossible to appreciate its good intentions.
This film was pretty cheap for the first half, then after the plot twist it actually became interesting.
1st half = 4/10
2nd half = 8/10
The story was ok, reminiscent of the TV show Humans, and Black Mirror. if you like those then you'll enjoy this.
Great story. Unfortunate that Netflix got it. With bigger stars and better budget and a better director, this would have been an amazing movie.
An interesting movie about an alien invasion with a twist in the middle that makes the viewer wonder who the Invaders are.
25 minutes into the movie, I begun to feel sleepy. Woke up to the last 10 minutes of the film. So bad. Boring start. Boring ending.
Acting was so bad, that you did not believe a single emotion – |spoiler]maybe that was the point of the movie anyways[/spoiler] but I doubt it. Story was just as bad as every other SciFi you can watch and apart from the twist at the end it was just unnecessary…
Love Pena and Caplan, nice flip...
I was bored from this movie at first, especially with the little girl. But the twist in the plot is not what I was expecting at all. Turned out to be a pretty good movie.
Good concepts and nice visuals, but the script is a little shaky. Still, if you're a sci-fi buff, you will be able to forgive the film its flaws. It's not the end of the world, after all, if the film doesn't quite live up to expectations.
Shout by DeletedBlockedParent2018-08-04T17:24:57Z
Basic alien invasion flick with an awesome twist! loved it!