Before the Fire (2020)

Well I guess you could expect this kind of movie during a pandemic and basically i have no problem with that. My biggest problems with this movie are the following Lack of backstory. I had a hard time understanding what was going on and you had to guess quite a lot in the movie. There was also very hard to know the time frame. Had it been 3 days, 3 weeks or 3 years between the cuts. Also because now we know how people react in this kind of pandemic. And they surly don't react as in the movie.

I can not understand how some people here celebrate the acting in this one to be honest. I'm sorry I truly don't think the acting was anything but sad.

Please don't watch this one...please

Fmovies: In one word: unwatchable. That sums it up. Whoever invented this cinematic malfunction of filming made an obvious mistake. Humans don't see like that. What startles me most is that so called 'directors' see it as a legit depicting of reality. Really? Do you shake your head constantly like a mad monkey while looking at the world? No. The inner ear is composed of two parts: the cochlea for hearing and the vestibular system for balance. That's why you see the picture your eyes see 'static': the world moves, not you. And even if you move, your inner ear always makes adjustments so that your eyesight can be stabile, allowing you to move safely through our very reality. Yet this artistic nonsense, I call it 'home video ', keeps popping up for decades now. Why, really, that's beyond me. It is unwatchable, makes you dizzy and you want to abandon it as soon as you can, unless it is your five years old daughter who is running around in the garden on her birthday. I think (not sure though) The Blair Witch Project liable for this, and all the 'found footage' movies that followed.

Footnote: I stopped following Blindspot, a really good television series, when they switched to this shaky nonsense.

This movie was released just as the pandemic was starting back in March and yesterday was released on VOD.

Also yesterday the rating was around 5,now it's at 3.9 and dropping so that is an indication of the quality of this film.

This is not a suggestion to watch but rather to avoid. Not exactly Post Apocalyptic,more end of the world scenario,with poor acting, bad or nonexistent story. What's worse is that we now know what it's like when a global pandemic hits and how people,governments, WHO etc react. We have that experience now and as life is always stranger than fiction this zero effort scenario is not convincing.

Before the Fire fmovies. As the other reviewer has pointed out, this is more of a drama than a post apocalyptic sci-fi action action film but it has a certain style and captures the pandemic angle using a low budget reasonably well and this has always to be taken into consideration, so there is no CGI and no effects but it does have some merit as the acting, photography and atmosphere is not bad and although the story kinda fizzles out at the end it is bleak , nasty and vicious even though a lot of the story is not explained in detail it deserves a fair and average 5/10.

That I have to fast-forward through. This happens very rarely and I watch lots of films. During the quarantine, I've watched like 20 films and I just want to say I'm sorry since I just couldn't force myself to sit through this one.

It is in fact - boring and unengaging. After literally nothing interesting (besides setting up the premise) happened in the first 40 minutes I was just forced to fast forward through this one and believe me, I've seen a lot of slow films that work. Scenes are there for a reason, these have to establish something, characters, their relations, build up the atmosphere, you should avoid filler scenes in a film.

I don't want to go hard on the creators, but did no one really took a look at this film and say - this just can't work, it's too slow and we clearly have not enough material for a full feature?

The main lead is likable (although distractingly beautiful in a classic sense of the word), her character has an arc, the message in there, literally burning the bridges and killing the past, evolving.

Why not give the script some time and thought? Fill it with something interesting?

If youy have some kind of trouble about sleeping, then you have to see this movie, because is super boring and you will fall sleep instantly. No plot, too slow, many plot holes and with many nonsenses. I will give it a score of 2, for only two reasons: cinematography, and the very beatiful lead actress.