I can only guess that many of these quite similar and overwhelmingly positive reviews must have been made by those close to the cast or production or what have you. The Day would've been a pretty mundane affair were all else perfect, but as it stands its bad filmmaking on top of a worse story. We are never treated to things that make other films enjoyable, such as say, an explanation for anything that's happening. We don't know why this world exists, who the characters are aside from vague notions of a normal life turned savage, or what exactly drives the cannibals other than the idea "to survive."
It's impossible to determine the quality of the actors involved due to the drivel that these poor souls are expected to pass off as human speech. In the same vein, there isn't even the faint glimmer of a broken 40 watt light behind a brick wall on another continent of human emotion for the audience to identify with. Through illogical actions and plot contrivances the story progresses without attention to suspense or timing. Everything plods along to the uneventful and poorly thought-out climax. Most of the action takes place during this battle with the cannibals but there is never any urgency or clear goal or anybody really doing anything besides sticking their arms in and out of windows.
The Day is a failure to be sure but even worse its not even a magnificent failure; the entire project has been absolute trash since its inception. And I nearly forgot about the weird murky gray-scale filter that's supposed to be dead and dreary like this "new world." Nauseating and distracting. Don't bother with this one; there's not enough drama, horror, or action in this to be enjoyed by even the least demanding audiences.
It's impossible to determine the quality of the actors involved due to the drivel that these poor souls are expected to pass off as human speech. In the same vein, there isn't even the faint glimmer of a broken 40 watt light behind a brick wall on another continent of human emotion for the audience to identify with. Through illogical actions and plot contrivances the story progresses without attention to suspense or timing. Everything plods along to the uneventful and poorly thought-out climax. Most of the action takes place during this battle with the cannibals but there is never any urgency or clear goal or anybody really doing anything besides sticking their arms in and out of windows.
The Day is a failure to be sure but even worse its not even a magnificent failure; the entire project has been absolute trash since its inception. And I nearly forgot about the weird murky gray-scale filter that's supposed to be dead and dreary like this "new world." Nauseating and distracting. Don't bother with this one; there's not enough drama, horror, or action in this to be enjoyed by even the least demanding audiences.