The premise of this movie is quite good. Young scientists journey into the future to try and work out what wiped out humanity. The project gets shut down, and so the young kids go into the future and are stranded. OK so that is the the premise. The mark of a good writer is not so much to come up with such a premise, but to know what to do with it, how to finish it off, how to string it out into a compelling story. This is where this movie fails. After the truly engaging start, it plateaus and not much happens, in fact, there is very little explanation as to what the kids are trying to do (except go to Portland, and why not?). So we are left with a long stretch of very little for most of the movie. The ending is completely ridiculous, and it is worth staying around for, just for a good laugh.
An interesting failure of a film.
An interesting failure of a film.