drab and pointless and humorless and dreary and be some word that come to mind quickly . the first ten minute be shock cinema at it fine and but after that it a more realistic than thou and account of an end of the world scenario . what conclusions do it come to . people be mean and racist and xenophobic and and greedy and without social structure to guide them and but maybe and just maybe and if they cling to their humanity and mercy and thing could get good and the world can be reborn and etc . the little boy character be trite and run away and at just the right moment when the pace lagged and cu thats what traumatize little boy in these kind of movie do . there some nice cinematography and of darkness and with some fire burn and not very subtle symbolism and but nothing in this be . it less pedantic than funny game and but not a clever . it bleak and and desperate and and dismal . a live horse be kill on screen and for our viewing pleasure . at least john water have his animal f and $ ed before he slaughter them . do just be the opposite of the way and hollywood would film something and make it automatically artful and meaningful . sure it more realistic than mad max beyond thunderdome and but it theme of desperation and human redemption and and survival and be the same . just less entertaining . a real life disaster and would indeed probably go down with people crowd in barn and hat each other try to make due and but so what . that just a premise and not a story . the final scene of the train in motion and suggests and thing get well and but a to why be just as mysterious a what cause the catastrophe in the first place . and ultimately and just a purposeful and to begin and end the movie and that all . this wasn not very original and provocative and or challenge . it intense at time but mostly lethargic and and begs by it somberness to be take seriously and without anything at all serious to contribute .