1/10 -> F- (you know how some reality shows are complete turds, well this movie about a reality show might just be the biggest turd of them all)

I rarely dislike movies as much as I disliked this one. It's a pretentious bullshit. And it's not even uniquely pretentious. The story is a rip off of similar British TV show Dead Set, only the setup is a bit different: instead of a zombie outbreak we have a nuclear WWIII going on while tenants of a Big Brother styled house carry on their lives without noticing anything until it's too late.

Everything in this movie is bad. Granted it was made very cheaply - around $35,000, but the script is the biggest problem. Paper and pen are still the cheapest things around as far I know. The characters are essentially not developed at all - they're all paper thin cliches. The tenants could've easily been played by cardboard cutouts.

The movie follows two timelines. One inside the house after the nuclear catastrophe which is something the tenants will only find out, and the other timeline follows the producer in the outside world while he tries to work on the show and take care of his son he's having shared custody with his ex-wife before the nuclear catastrophe takes place. The movie cuts back and forth between these two timelines constantly, but there's no reason why the movie is like that. It feels more like they're just trying to show off. The pacing is non existent. The acting is horrible and what's even worse is that the whole movie seems dubbed in postproduction. The sound editing is the worst I've ever heard. Kid's voice is unnaturally louder and even deeper than his fathers, you can see that a character is saying something else than what you hear because his mouth movement doesn't correspond to the sound at all. You can ever hear people talking with their mouth shut. Hilarious really.