koxbox123-1 The ending when they climb up to the real world !! WOW just WOW !!!

Platypuschow This infamous box office failure is one of those films I never fancied and after finally giving it a chance I understand why.With a fantastic cast including Bill Murray, Tim Robbins and Saoirse Ronan this family friendly adventure tale tells the story of an underground society governed my a selfish greedy Mayor who is hiding several truths from his people.Bill Murray feels wasted, considering he's the movies antagonist he is barely present and when he is it feels like the role could have been given to anybody.Ronan is great as always the same as Robbins, but a stellar cast couldn't save City Of Ember.It's not that it's a bad film, it's just too far from being a good one. The story is played out poorly, it all looks kind of hokey and in my opinion it needed to be longer.City Of Ember was a huge commerical bust and lost its studio a fair few pennies, I'm sure that the fans of the book were not happy either.The Good:Very impressive castThe Bad:Looks worse than it shouldMurray is wastedThings I Learnt From This Movie:I want a giant moth

rajatdahiyax City of Ember is a 2008 British-Irish-American science fiction fantasy film based on the 2003 novel The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau. It was directed by Gil Kenan from a screenplay by Caroline Thompson, and stars Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, Bill Murray, Mackenzie Crook, Martin Landau, Mary Kay Place, Toby Jones and Tim Robbins. It was released in October 2008, just two months after the release of the final book in the series; The Diamond of Darkhold. For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing... and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Now, two teenagers in a race against time, must search Ember for clues that will unlock the ancient mystery of the city's existence, and help the citizens escape before the lights go out forever.

Andrew Huggett I really enjoyed this film – it had a fairly interesting and original idea that of a disaster befalling mankind and the only escape was to construct a sort of generational enclosed underground city (similar to the idea of a generational spaceship travelling from a polluted earth to find a new earth) but then the purpose is forgotten over time. In this case the power is running out and there's a corrupt Mayor (played by Bill Murray) with his evil sidekick played by the splendid Toby Jones. Over time the instructions for exiting the city are lost and forgotten. Martin Landau also makes a cameo appearance. The production design of the retro underground city and its associated (very analog) technology is believable and excellent. There is a strong emphasis on engineering and mechanics rather than computers and software which when you want something to last 200 years makes sense with a small enclosed population which needs to self- sustain itself with limited resources and which is in a back-to basics de-evolving state. Very good – but as with 'When Worlds Collide' (1951), 'Logan's Run' (1976) and 'THX 1138' (1971) I would have liked to have seen more of the 'new world' and the way in which our protagonists adapt (or fail to adapt) to it. There's a nice (predictable) sunrise scene at the end of the film which I was fully expecting.