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Excellent adaptation.

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

Blistering performances.

And a pointless ending. I guess i have to leave a longer review. The acting's not great. Alot of whats happening doesn't make much sense. I had a little hope in the second act but it went to heck in the 3rd. Some good jump scares if your into that. Not really a bad-bad or a good-bad movie more a ok-bad movie. If your into alien movies, jump scares and are really really board give it a go.

The film opens with aliens killing humans and then we flash back to before the attack. Dave (Blake Webb) has a female boss and works a lot. His wife Amy (Tatum Langton) who has put her career on hold feels alienated. They are on the verge of breaking up. Dave has to fly to Denver for business with a loner friend who feels alienated at the end of the world. When things hit the fan, David attempts to get back to Amy as she awaits for him. Yes, two minutes ago they were going to divorce, now they can't imagine spending their last seconds on earth with someone else. He encounters a farmer that feels alienated and people who just stand there and don't move as they feel alienated. I think we got the theme.The film uses various flashback techniques, including flashbacks within flashbacks and running scenes over again. It proved to be confusing in a film that was otherwise boring lacking alien attack scenes that one might expect peeking at cover art.There have been various end of the world films that were used to demonstrate aspects of the human psyche. In fact all good end of times movies do that to some degree. However when you use it to near exclusion of all science fiction, you need to have an "A" game and headliners. This film didn't have any of that. It was simply boring. No swearing, sex, or nudity.Note to self: When leaving the house is a bad idea. Stay inside.

I view most films as having potential. The problem is that most don't live up to that potential. Either the story is underdeveloped, or it's an idea we've seen a million times over (in this case, surviving an alien invasion), or the characters are underdeveloped, or the plot just isn't strung together very well, or it's a combination of the above problems. Here it seems to be all of the above. And one of the biggest flaws it has is the use of flashbacks. To quote Wikipedia: "A flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story. Flashbacks are often used to recount events that happened before the story's primary sequence of events to fill in crucial backstory. In the opposite direction, a flashforward (or prolepsis) reveals events that will occur in the future.[3] Both flashback and flashforward are used to cohere a story, develop a character, or add structure to the narrative. In literature, internal analepsis is a flashback to an earlier point in the narrative; external analepsis is a flashback to a time before the narrative started." Here, the scenes and points of history in the movie just randomly jump all over the place with no apparent connection or reason. The story, as summarized a dozen times, is about David, a workaholic who tries to get from a business trip in Denver back to his nearly-estranged (and cheating but who can blame her) wife. He is at first completely clueless about the alien invasion, and everyone he meets at first is cryptic about it ("THEY" poisoned the water, "THEY" invaded my property and I'm gonna empty the gun on them). The scenes are disproportionately out of order, jumping between scenes with him alone, scenes with his wife, scenes with him and his wife, scenes with him trying to help victims, scenes running away from or into aliens, etc. At one point it jumps back and forth between David rescuing a woman and David rescuing a man, WITH NO APPARENT REASON. The flashbacks, if that's what you want to call them, are not linked in any logical way. They could have strung the story out in a much more linear way (Couple having problems, David leaving for Denver, wife cheating, David slowly realizing the invasion, David tries to get home, David helps man infected by water, David helps crowd and only makes it out with woman, David finds his way home and runs into his wife just before....you know). And it would have worked FOR the film. Again, overused story plot, but it would have made so much more sense for the viewer. I get that maybe the producers wanted to try something new, maybe original story angles. And that could have been great, theoretically. Instead, they just caused the plot to jump everywhere, adding more confusion than necessary--confusion that could have gotten cleared up in a much better way, but nothing comes out of it. Instead he makes it back by pure dumb luck only to accidentally run into his wife by pure dumb luck, and be the last guy alive in the end. The whole movie could be one linear scene, with maybe one or two flashbacks to spice things up a bit, and the whole thing could be about David and his wife trying to reconcile over the phone while he tries to make it home alive. But no, we get this jumbled up mess that barely makes it to the end. Better luck next time.

*** This review may contain spoilers ***All the other reviews have touched upon the fact that the movie jumps about from past and present. I actually liked this element of it, the problem for me was that the story, was just too dull and boring.I agree with another reviewer that complains about the other people that it introduces have no real significance.I very rarely start watching a film without finishing it, and I managed to complete this one, but can't really recommend it. It just lacks substance and just isn't very good. You can look for hidden meanings and existential questions in movies and others are just pointless; this is the latter.The acting isn't as bad as made out by others, but the lack of euphoria demonstrated by the actual events is a little obvious.Watch it or don't watch it, the results will be pretty much the same.