Movie how does it end

And James and Whitaker do the film no favors, sleepwalking through their roles. Only Grace Dove, as a Native American who joins them for part of the journey, puts any effort into it. Her performance and a reasonably strong visual language from cinematographer from Peter Flinckenberg are the only things that get it even to its one-star rating.

Netflix has escalated their war with the studios with each passing month, clearly trying to offer every genre and type of movie possible to compete. It also apparently means they have once-straight-to-video fare that used to get buried on the bottom shelf of a Blockbuster, rented times by dissatisfied customers.

Brian Tallerico is the Editor of RogerEbert. Theo James as Will. Forest Whitaker as Tom. Kat Graham as Samantha. Mark O'Brien as Jeremiah. Reviews How It Ends. He hears explosions and Sam, away in Seattle, says, "Something's happening. Will's flight home to Seattle is cancelled. Will has no choice but to join his surly father-in-law in a cross-country journey to Seattle.

At no point during their journey do Will and Tom find out what's happening in the world. At one point, there's a massive thunderstorm. Sheriffs and state troopers police the borders of towns and states, trying to deter interstate travel. Will and Tom, with the help of that shotgun, mostly circumvent these checkpoints. The internet is out; radio waves aren't working. One character in a small town points out that there are over 2, satellites in space — how did all of them go out at once?

All of it is waving in the general direction of some amorphous apocalypse. Some things seem biblical, like a character named Jeremiah Mark O'Brien who warns that the disasters might be an act of war.

Thus: This is war! Or is it a climate disaster? Or is this just a road trip movie about a lawyer and his father-in-law? That the disaster is never specified might be the point of the movie — when the world ends, we may not notice that the apocalypse is happening. It might creep over us while we're in the middle of a more important task. Like, say, collecting your pregnant wife from Seattle, where she's, uh, busy being pregnant.

Will is a lawyer and gets a few basic personality traits, but Sam is not afforded that luxury. Unfortunately, the "buddy road trip" part of the movie isn't strong enough to hold the fort for that narrative. Tom and Will barely have time to bond between thwarting car accidents and shooting at state troopers. Then — your final spoiler alert — Tom dies, leaving Will to fight on alone. When Joe finally speaks to Henry with the full picture in mind, Henry reveals he was taking Emily back to the facility.

Joe knows he will go to prison but he aims to face the consequences of his actions, regardless of how severe they might be. Joe then calls a reporter from the LA Times that was repeatedly trying to get ahold of him, and reveals that he is going to plead guilty to manslaughter.

The film ends with news reports indicating that Joe was found guilty. His behavior throughout the film highlights how he may have made a quick, dangerous decision, and it led to him shooting an innocent man. His experiences on this night now force him to stop avoiding and rationalizing his actions; he sees them for what they are.