Movies that Suck, but not really (The Day) 2011
The Day is a Canadian made post apocalyptic movie about 5 people who are traveling on the back roads (its never explained where exactly they are or where they are going) on their journey they find themselves at an abandoned farmhouse, at first they believe it to be a safe haven but soon find out that its not what they were hoping it to be when one of them is killed.
The 4 remaining quickly realize the farmhouse is used as a trapping house by a group of cannibals who control the sounding area and kill any and everyone who enters their territory and trap house, the 4 survivors do their best to fight off the cannibal clan but they are limited on resources as more of the clan converge on the farmhouse then what they can handle.
When I saw the preview for this movie I was interested in seeing this because I’m a fan of these type of movies and a little surprised to see that it was distributed by the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) but I didn’t let that stop me from checking it out, but maybe I should have.
The movie starts off interesting enough as we are introduced to the 5 main characters.
I didn’t like that one of them is killed off very early in the movie, because we don’t get to know much about any of them except for one flashback for one character and when some of them are talking but other then that there is never really anything that made me feel any real connection with any of them.
The Cannibals are almost laughable at best because we never get a reason for what happened to cause why the world went to hell in the first place and weather or not the cannibals are the ones who did it or if they just sprung up after everything went bad.
For the most part the acting is very uneven with probably the best performance coming from Ashley Bell who really needs to be in bigger and better movies since she is a very underrated actress who deserves better, she’s a badass in this movie and can handle the physical stuff.
The movie is only 87 minutes (1h 27min) but should’ve been longer which would’ve helped fresh out characters and backstory, I don’t know to much about the filmmakers Direcotor Douglas Aarniokoski(Highlander:Endgame) and Writer Luke Passmore but I did notice alot of homages to Night Of The Living Dead, The Road Warrior, Stake Land, and a few other movies that are similar in theme.
All in all I was let down more then I expected by The Day(Expectations were already very low) with the uneven acting, Story didn’t make much sense, the action was decent but could’ve been better, I really don’t care for extreme close up fight scenes where you only see the characters and not much around them to give them room to move around. It feels like an lazy way of filming or the actors are really good in the fight so let’s close it in so the audience can’t see how bad they look. it has to be one or the other.
I’ve written about a few movies that I don’t highly recommend but this one tops that list. I don’t know of too many people who have seen or even heard of this over but if you have seen the preview for The Day and was thinking it was going to be don’t get your hope up because the action, the real action is far and to few inbetween.
