Awake not Woke!

Nothing woke in this one. The first half was pretty good despite some minor complaints but the second half really brings the entire thing down a notch. Some great acting and performances all around. While I wouldn't call this horror but more thriller there is some very creepy and unsettling scenes. The plot is a resident at a nursing home terrorizes other residents. One of the biggest plot issues is it's set in modern world yet there is not one single camera anywhere to be found and not one person has a cell phone or ever gets visitors from a family member. This guy manages to move about freely terrorizing residents and making tons of noise and there is never a single nurse or orderly ever anywhere. Loud disruptive scenes play out in the middle of the day in a common room and again nobody ever shows up to check. Several highly suspicious deaths that are clearly foul play and no investigation or questions are asked. It all becomes so impossible and ridiculous by the end that it ruins what could of been a nice little thriller that also takes a look at nursing homes, aging and onset dementia. Most of these problems could of been fixed by simply setting it in a different decade like the 70's or even the 80's. Still might be worth a 1 time watch as the acting is very good.

There was a character named "Jamie." I'm going to guess that's a she, since her voice is female (kind of strong, but female enough). The main problems/confusions about her were not fully male or female hair style + face. And she told the main character "Grey" to not ask her "gender," which is good; better to stay in the dark than know that painful information. She was in the movie for a few minutes anyway. Otherwise, I liked the robotic body and camera movements when the STEM was in control. And it's a good thing they didn't go for a "good ending."

I'm actually shocked this has a sequel. The first was a low budget disaster movie that bombed at the theater so 6 years later the triple the budget and try again. Really? For the positives the FX at least look pretty good in this one and the acting is decent. However the writing is so incompetently bad this has to have been an A.I script, nobody can write something this utterly stupid on purpose. Woke aspects are too much DEI casting choices and obvious pushing the women better than men b.s. Spoilers for the first 40 minutes..... So to start it's only been 5 years and they are already opening up the bunker for outside excursions. One of these missions is the father going out alone on a gathering mission. He was specifically selected because he's a structural engineer and can assist in rebuilding. Why would you be risking sending him out on something like that. He goes out in a full EVO suit then just casually takes his gear off and exposes himself to the environment only to go back for a decontamination wash as soon as he's back inside. We then go back in the bunker to the group of decision makers and leaders. There are a lot of DEI casting choices on display in general throughout the bunker and the movie itself. The leadership council is made up of men and women however the men mostly just sit there silently while the females talk and make decisions with the lone white male to speak up is clearly bad. One of the most vocal of the council is the wife. Why is she even on the council? She has no qualifications and is only there because she's the wife of the structural engineer. Realistically there would of been people in place probably military to lead the bunker and keep order not a bunch of randoms. They have enough supplies to last only a year (great planning) but have stretched it to 5 years and are almost out. Oddly enough nobody is malnourished, they are all clean and showering with clean clothes and electricity is being wasted in every scene. They then decide to risk sending a rescue group out to a distress beacon to bring in yet more survivors to feed and house not knowing if they may have radiation poisoning or some other illnesses therefore endangering the entire bunker. The white male is bad for opposing this but is overruled by the 'good' idiot females. At this point there has been several instances of the movie trying to explain impossible environmental plotlines away by simply saying 'for reasons we don't understand'. Can you get any lazier. The idiot kid who by the way suddenly appears to no longer be diabetic as it's never mentioned or shown even though that was the major plot device from the first movie, has been sneaking out of the bunker to go outside. How the hell is that possible, in an underground bunker with one one giant blast door entrance? Is nobody watching it? Are there no alarms if it opens? WTF? Anyway the escape the bunker after disaster and just conveniently find an entire fleet of lifeboats washed up on shore right in front of them. Undamaged, fully functioning, fueled and with a weeks worth of food and water on board. How nice. They wash up in Liverpool with what appears to be hundreds if not thousands of perfectly fine people inhabiting it, and a fully functioning military unit as well. This unit recognizes some badge they are supposed to have to allow passage. Wait, what badges and when the hell was that a thing? They have fully functioning vehicles and no problem with fuel. Remember, we were told the surface of the earth was burning at 900 degrees with 1000ft tsunamis after the asteroid hit. At this point I am now feeling myself getting dumber every second this is on so I'm out at 40 minutes. Where the first movie required you to turn your brain off and just watch it, this requires you to get a lobotomy first.

I know I've seen this before but couldn't remember it all so gave it a re-watch. It's a typical if cliché disaster movie with nothing really original but it is entertaining enough. I would say probably a bit better made than average. The acting is pretty good and the FX are overall pretty decent. The writing isn't great and relies on characters doing some stupid things to move the plot along. This is definitely a turn your brain off and just watch the movie sort of film. I will say the ending is completely absurd with science and timelines thrown completely out the window. However I have to disagree with the woke rating of the other review. There is some heavy DEI casting choices made throughout. A lot of the military seems to be female. The next door neighbors at the beginning are black/white mixed race. Then there is very obvious theme of white men bad and black and minorities good. Examples are the pharmacy scene has white males shooting and looting and the black male is nice and lets them go. The white family in the car is bad. The transport truck has the racist white bad male are good black male. Nobody stops to pick up or check on the mom on the side of the highway except for the good Spanish family. Actually I'm pretty sure every character shown as bad is a white male and every minority shown is a good character. This is watchable particularly if you like disaster movies but there is absolutely a woke aspect to it.