The premise for this movie was something pretty original. There is a worldwide epidemic in which people become agoraphobic when they go outside, suffer a heart attack, and die. It doesn't happen all at once, and there's no explanation for it. Clever. Marc is stuck at his workplace and the whole movie is about him trying to find his girlfriend. He teams up with a consultant, hired to "trim the fat" in his office, and who found a GPS to allow them to navigate amongst the sewers and underground mass transit tunnels. (GPS wouldn't work, but I'll give them a break here) That first 20 minutes of setup was done reasonably well. The concept was unique, and the way they introduced the back stories of the characters through flashbacks was done well. The character development was reasonable, at least as good as you can expect in a modern film, where directors just want to skip to the story or the action.
After that, the movie goes downhill rapidly. Instead of making it a realistic portrayal of a guy just struggling to find his girlfriend after a worldwide apocalypse, they turn it into a half-rate action movie, with gun fights, grizzly bear attacks, "Waterworld" shopping mall gangs, exploding camp stoves, etc.... The supporting characters are kept only so long as they're needed by Marc, then they're thrown away at the script's earliest convenience. It ends with a happy ending, but by that point, you really don't care that much because, with a movie like this, you know how it's going to end already.
Could have been great... oh well.
After that, the movie goes downhill rapidly. Instead of making it a realistic portrayal of a guy just struggling to find his girlfriend after a worldwide apocalypse, they turn it into a half-rate action movie, with gun fights, grizzly bear attacks, "Waterworld" shopping mall gangs, exploding camp stoves, etc.... The supporting characters are kept only so long as they're needed by Marc, then they're thrown away at the script's earliest convenience. It ends with a happy ending, but by that point, you really don't care that much because, with a movie like this, you know how it's going to end already.
Could have been great... oh well.