The first thing we see in this film is a missile attack on New York City, as seen by Eva, the 30-ish resident of a Manhattan apartment building. There are numerous, but small, nuclear explosions across the landscape. Soon enough the main cast finds itself in a survivalist bunker located in the building's basement. The bunker was built by the building's super, a crazed man named Mickey. There's an odd sequence in which white-suited boogie men break into the bunker and carry off the young daughter of one of the residents. We never quite find out who the boogie men are, but it seems they're carrying out some sort of post-apocalyptic game plan to secure future human breeding material. The bunker people kill two of the boogie men during the invasion. You'd think the well-armed boogie men would react by killing all of the bunker people, but all they do is weld shut the only known door to the bunker, trapping everyone inside. We never see or hear from the boogie men again.
As the film progresses, nearly everybody shows signs of radiation sickness. There's a murder or two as well. At the end, with everyone else either dead or about to die, Eva quickly scrambles into one of the radiation suits previously worn by one of the dead boogie men and leaves the bunker via the septic system. She reaches street level and slowly walks several miles downtown through the gray and black ruins of New York to what remains of the Brooklyn Bridge. There is no sign of life anywhere. We see that Eva is as trapped on the surface as she was in the bunker, and her eventual fate will, no doubt, be the same. That's the last we see of Eva, and that's the end of the film. I found the ending, with its lingering shots of increasing hopelessness as Eva realizes her fate, to be the best part of the film.
This is as bleak a film as they come. I'm glad I saw The Divide, but I never want to see it again.
As the film progresses, nearly everybody shows signs of radiation sickness. There's a murder or two as well. At the end, with everyone else either dead or about to die, Eva quickly scrambles into one of the radiation suits previously worn by one of the dead boogie men and leaves the bunker via the septic system. She reaches street level and slowly walks several miles downtown through the gray and black ruins of New York to what remains of the Brooklyn Bridge. There is no sign of life anywhere. We see that Eva is as trapped on the surface as she was in the bunker, and her eventual fate will, no doubt, be the same. That's the last we see of Eva, and that's the end of the film. I found the ending, with its lingering shots of increasing hopelessness as Eva realizes her fate, to be the best part of the film.
This is as bleak a film as they come. I'm glad I saw The Divide, but I never want to see it again.