The End
Cary NewYorker

Review by Cary NewYorker

The End 2024

★★½

Watched 11 Dec 2024

…of the world as we know it, and it’s not fine.  

But, I’m shocked at how much I didn’t hate it.  

In the crossroads between “Fallout” and Luis Buñuel, this tale of a rich white family that has been in an underground bunker for 20 years with electricity, clean clothes, cars (with gas) and seven people living out their days as if the outside world isn’t falling apart when a stranger arrives. 

Ever since “Everyone Says I Love You,” directors think we all want musicals where the actors can’t sing.  And while the cast here is game, there are a lot of cringe worthy vocal work.   But the songs themselves are actually pretty good.  Maybe one day it can be adapted into a stage musical with real singers.  

Too long, definitely.  

The world building is impressive but still feels lacking in the who’s and whys.  Interesting up to a point and then these people wore out their welcome without anything new to share.  It’s The Art of Not Much Going On.

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