How It Ends

Further cementing Netflix's association with cut-rate sci-fi is a lame-pocolypse outing with Forest Whitaker and a bunch of nobodies. I've about had it up to here with lazy sci-fi that leaves things up to interpretation. I don't want allegory or ambiguity in my sci-fi. I want clever storytelling and immense amounts of imagination. Is that so much to ask for? If McLaren can't deliver that, he can always take his writing to a publisher of YA fiction, they gobble this crap up like Skittles.

We'll never know, because THERE WAS NO ENDING. Characters, plot lines, and MY SANITY appear and disappear like those Asian butterflies whose wings cause hurricanes in the Caribbean drawn like moths to the flames of Seattle burning after the Seahawks win the World Bowl Championshop. Follow Forest Whitaker's lazy eye...it always points west.

You don't care about any of the characters, there's literally no explanation as to what is happening, and you are just left with a bunch of questions and a very unsatisfying ending. Makes you wonder why you even wasted any time on this crap.

Let's make it clear: you won't understand a damn thing. Graphically is cool. It is well done. But come on, it's 2018... you need to do more, to place more efforts in the script, in the dialogs ("wait, there is something wrong..." COME ON!) Why they keep doing stuff like this? I tell you why. Because they place a cool title, a catchy trailer and boom, people like me watch it. The end of the art of cinematography. The best I can do is to advise you: save your time, watch something worthy.

The actors perform well within an underdeveloped framework. The production quality and music is mostly good. Bad writing. The plot hinges on the notion that society breaks down in a single day without explanation. Some suspense but much of the dialog and conflict felt forced. Unfortunately, it is woefully incomplete, frequently unconvincing and lacks a satisfying ending.

It ends terribly, by the way. It also struggles to maintain a consistency because it's like a TV series that has been compressed into a movie. i.e. It jumps around too much. Some bits weren't too bad, the mid section mainly. Apart from the apocalyptic scenes near the end, everything after Grace Dove is train wreck, in more ways than one.

I actually loved the Seattle scenes and ending visuals. Almost every apocalyptic movie leaves the audience with unanswered questions but the main problem of this one is there is no question. And why the hell everyone went mental right after things started? A little bit of Mad Max, little bit of 2012, little bit of save-someone-we-love cliche movies. Could've been better.

It's pretty, and it tries to do some things, but it's boring. Then to retcon the parts that weren't boring, MUCH of the runtime, some of the characters, and many, many aspects of the plot are ultimately unfinished or amount to nothing/have no lasting impact. (How does it end? You won't find out.) A total disappointment. Netflix, you're better than this. You've let me down, Bud.

Oh no, not another road-movie in an apocalyptic world.

Well, it ends with a pretty fucking dumb finale -- when the film finally uses some CGI to show some mayhem. A lot of bad ideas scrambled in uninteresting world-ending movie where we don't know what's actually happening, but we couldn't care less. The last 15 minutes of this are just the worst of any movie this year.

Although it was better than I had expected it to be, still not much there to hold on to. Some good scenes and Whitaker is aces again but not much here to see with no clear ending and not much character development

Well, it ends poorly. Lots of good visuals but the soundtrack is awful and the story is mostly lame.

How it Ends does not really tell us how it all actually ends, nor does the film itself have a proper finale. It sort of trails off amidst one of the films cooler action sequences. It sort of sputters when Forest Whittaker is not commanding the screen with his amazing talent and the film is elevated by his presense for the first half. It leaves out key details on why this is happening; In doing so it fails to let the audience grasp onto why society has degraded so rapidly within 5 days time.

"How it ends" is trying to be many things and it fails colossally at each and every one of them. The movie is maybe fine as a romantic comedy, but definitely not as an apocalyptic movie. The flaws include: lack of explanation and good narrative; poor pace; useless scenes; awful atmosphere that doesn't create neither suspense nor feeling of impending doom or glimmering hope. I've never been that indifferent towards something from the genre and I usually enjoy anything on the topic.

It's well made but incredibly aggravating at times. Extremely dumb decisions made only to setup conflict or drama cheapen it. I didn't mind being in the dark about what was going on, it gives a more immersed feel, but ultimately it sits as a mediocre output into a mostly bad genre. Some day we will get more post apocalyptic films that resonate.

I love this genre, but this film was deeply unsatisfying and leaves me with far more questions than it even attempted to answer. Cool disaster CGI though.

too many good ideas, too many failed ones...

Shitty.....very shitty. That's how it ends! Seriously, what kind of ending was that? Did they run out of money or something? Or was Netflix asking us, the audience to answer the question? Anyways, Forest Whitaker was good....but he's always good. The rest was meh.

Just bad. Boring, nonsensical. Also, boring.

How does it end?

The first two-thirds are pretty good, then it disappoints with a slow third act and lack of resolution. The script isn’t great, acting is fine, director actually seems competent. Not an awful way to pass the time but not very rewarding.

no theme. just cliche. no purpose. a total waste of time.

What seemed like a solid premise featuring the fantastic Forest Whitaker was actually just a shitty excuse for an apocalypse road trip movie. The ending is extra frustrating because there is no real resolution, and no explanation about what is causing the apocalypse. We don't even get clues that we can piece together. I suppose the entire thing is supposed to be propped up based on the human drama, but that aspect is the most tired and boring part of a tired and boring movie.

Some intriguing ideas, but pretty half baked

if ricky was the main character this couldve been good not just painfully average