9/10
2008
A Gil Kenan Film
Protagonist(s): Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway,Tim Robbins, Martin Landau
Antagonist(s): Bill Murray
Run-time: 1 hour 34 minutes
In the midst of a nuclear war, a group of scientists commissioned an underground city to be built and sealed off from the world for two hundred years in the hope that that would be a sufficient amount of time. At some point during those two hundred years the instructions for what to do when the time came were lost somewhere in the city, leaving its inhabitants blissfully unaware of the world beyond the darkness they saw and that they had a deadline to meet.
The film is based on a book of the same name, published in 2003 and written by Jeanne Du Prau, a novel which I have yet to read.
The concept is fairly interesting, something akin to Plato's statement of people living in caves and being convinced that what they saw was all there was, and not question if there was something else.
The various mechanisms displayed are fascinating, even though most of them have the drawback of not functioning without being plugged into the electrical socket.
The plot is fairly simple with the wicked being punished and the just rewarded, the acting talent is excellent, the special effects are mostly well integrated where digital ones are used. The most obvious examples include a water slide ride in a boat, huge moths and a giant mole which could give a hippo a run for its money.
I recommend this film for families, though the parents should see it first to make sure this is something their children can handle.
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