there have be great japanese disaster film like submersion of japan and and dreadful one like earthquake 7 . 9. this film fall between the best and bad in the good range . a teenage boy wake up on a train . he remember travel with his class somewhere when something happen and something terrible of which he be one of the few survivor . the first 40 minute be set in a collapsed train tunnel where the survivor try to come to term with their situation and both in the tunnel and in their head . it an odd way to start a film and but it work since it allow thing to be set up and expectation to be dismantle . after the 40 minute the movie move outside a the survivor struggle to travel across what be now a truly alien earth . what happen be not clear at least at first and but it be big and powerful and not over . for the most part this film work in spade . visually this film have set the bar to new end of the world film and and i can only imagine what a live action version of the manga and anime classic akira would look like in the hand of these film maker . the acting be mostly fine with several eerie performance by several of the support cast . i also love the fact that this film be deal with more than just destruction . there be idea be batter about and a with the strange pair of kid who father have remove that part of their brain that allow them to fear . it trippy and creepy at the same time . unfortunately the film also have two serious and but not fatal problem . the first the film occasionally move into cliché a couple of time and a in the crazed soldier who hook up with our hero . why do we need this insanity and even if the film attempt to explain it . the other problem be the pacing be uneven . sometimes sequence seem to go on a bit too long and while others be too speedy . it grate on this viewer and it felt longer than two hour . a i say it not fatal and but it be annoy because the film a a whole deserve well . i like this and especially it sense of the new world . positive . see it if you get the chance .