nome-nessuno It was a nuclear attack , the kind that leave no prisoners . All the inhabitants of a building trying to find shelter . Only 8 able to take refuge in the underground bunker of the same building , "inhabited " by the caretaker. The film is shot very well , it exploits the great great location , the actors have worked very well and the climax and rhythm are really well calibrated . The main theme , is the isolation that leads to madness , the emergence of victims characters , executioners , cruelty and liabilities but in The Divide the Apocalypse is just an excuse , merely a contingent situation that lives the group . Impazisce someone , someone takes the lead , forming little groups . The small group who commands is what will also manage the food rations . And that's what most cynical and violent .

mst900 Apparently as in 99.999% of these apocalyptic films and end of the world scenarios-no black women will be around. The one black guy sacrifices himself for the white woman or gets killed off early in the film unless he is an established actor and then he has a little more time to be the sacrificial lamb for white folks.The white woman who cannot run 3 ft without falling down or depends on everyone else protecting her somehow manages to survive the monsters, the chaos, the fires, floods, and does so with little disruption to hair and makeup.Often, she will look as fresh as the proverbial daisy, fails to sweat like normal people and if injured or mussed, will have minimal evidence of such. The racism we are all indoctrinated to repeatedly on TV and in movies is such standard fare-it is never even mentioned in any critiques and can readily be predicted without fail. Hollywood's bigotry shines through every time.

NateWatchesCoolMovies Xavier Gens 's The Divide is one of the most unrepentant, bleak glimpses at life after a nuclear apocalypse I've ever seen committed to film. The opening credits have barely started before we're thrown headlong into the midst of an attack on New York City, debris flung at the lens, people running screaming.. most dying. A lucky few make it to the building caretaker's fortified basement, where they are forced to hide out together. Lauren German and her wimpy husband (Ivan Gonzalez), Courtney B. Vance, Roseanna Arquette and her daughter Abbey Thickson, and two arrogant tough guys (Michael Eklund and Milo Ventigmiglia) are among the survivors, and are all excellent. The real standout is Michael Biehn as Mickey, the grizzled caretaker, with a take no bullschit attitude and a tortured past. He begrudgingly allows them to stay (also, he's outnumbered), and when it becomes clear the disaster has resulted in fallout and they are going to be stuck down there for a long time, tensions arise. Slowly, subtly their minds begin to unravel and societal boundaries stretch in favour of primal, animalistic urges and madness. This is apparent in Eklund, Ventimiglia and Arquette's astounding performances especially. The three of them get hit with fallout the hardest, give in to their inner natures and by the end of the film resemble grotesque creatures, as opposed to the people they started off as. Lauren German is the most resilient, letting the only light of hope in the film shine through in her work. For a lower budget effort it packs a nasty punch, leaving a sickening aura in its wake, as any serious minded post apocalyptic movie should. Just be prepared to watch some Family Guy or something after to get you out of its pessimistic, feverishly overpowering head space.

schultzalan-1 This is a disturbing, thought-provoking, well-made film that has a huge fatal flaw to it. The characters are incredibly underwritten. This is a film that exemplifies the need to examine the characters life before the disaster occurs sending their life into a tail-spin. Unfortunately this film starts at the disaster, a nuclear explosion, before hinting at some of the characters pasts. And these are the only characters that we come to slightly know and care about. That is about 5 characters in a film where 9 characters play pivotal roles. And you only get to know those 5 characters slightly. The problem here is that 2/3 of the way through the movie is that the movie doesn't connect us with its characters. Its intention is to show the moral ambiguity of these characters and how they turn from civilized human beings to a "Lord of the Flies style group cannibalizing on the weaker members. And that's fine. I love "Lord of the Flies". But the director avoids allowing you to know the characters fully and that is a problem. If you don't know what the characters were like before hand, how can you be emotionally involved in where they end up? The director doesn't present the full spectrum here. Those who are given a slight backstory are very well played, especially by Rosanna Arquette as a mother who allows herself to be degraded to the worst possible degree in order to survive. But some of the characters are so thinly written that they begin psychotic and end up psychotic and you have no idea of what their connection is to any of the others or why they are there in the first place. And that is what hurts this film. You end up asking "Who are these people" 2/3 of the way through because you are not allowed to know them. It's a well made, well-acted film that trods along familiar lines but does so with intelligence. The problem is it doesn't want you to connect to it.