Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Executscan Expected more

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

frickabee This is the type of artsy fartsy movie that is so so tragically stupid, it would rightfully even make an environmental activist groan. Who for instance came up with the absurd notion for this movie that once the ozone layer had fully depleted, a huge explosion would occur and shatter all the windows?I'm normally the kind of person who is able to overlook the overall absurdity of the plot of any check-your-brain-at-the-door popcorn flick and just enjoy it, but this movie goes absolutely nowhere. It's a slow, boring movie with characters that are completely uninteresting and don't develop at all. Since an environmental crisis is so integral to the plot, I have to touch on it a bit. First of all, this movie was made 20 years too late to be believable. It was fashionable during the 80's to believe in the depletion of the ozone layer, but when it was discovered that was no longer the case, people often credit climate science even though there are now almost twice as many people on Earth. Furthermore, the sun is what creates the ozone layer. If pollution were the cause of ozone depletion rather than by the natural tilt of the Earth to the sun, holes would appear over the continents of the biggest polluters, rather than over Antarctica. Since it's been established that penguins and the occasional humans suffer no ill effects when there allegedly was an ozone hole, why not move closer to the Earth's southern polar region to survive? Never mind EVERYONE in the background driving their cars, running their businesses and going about their daily lives.This movie is little more than a celebration of junk science and its champions, making this the type of movie that Leonardo DiCraprio would've done for free.

riley_b7 I think this movie deserves more respect than it's been given. With all the very unrealistic takes on the end of the world floating around this one actually tantalizes you with an all too realistic perspective.I have a feeling that those who gave it a low rating were expecting some huge dramatic, catastrophic ending. Instead, this movie focused on the lives of a couple of people and what they felt, did and witnessed with the knowledge that the world was ending.In short, it isn't for the lazy mind which doesn't want to think. You need to be prepared to place yourself in the characters' shoes and feel what they're going through.

christa-906-147921 By the time this feet-dragging, slow film comes to an end – together with the World - boredom and disappointment almost have the viewer at the point of welcoming the last day on Earth. Why? Well, the last day of this couple in its meticulous recording does not scare you, it doesn't really make you feel empathic with those characters or anyone, it does not even make you wonder about the hows and whys. That alone wouldn't be too bad, for if the film's premise is to take doomsday at 4:44 next day as a fact, fine. But neither the actions of people around nor anything happening on the screen seems to indicate that anything is wrong with the world. That's what you get when you record an ordinary day from the rooftop of an ordinary American city (one might call such movie the long and never ending death of civilisation!) introducing later the factual notion that this is the last day on Earth. While the basic idea of the screenplay seemed perfectly plausible, the way this idea is being delivered in the film definitely makes its viewing awkward in a very uninspiring manner. Dafoe's wooden acting appears to play a huge role in this.The outstanding role of communication devices in the film seemed to be purposeful, showing how the character's inner isolation somehow is rather increased than diminished by such communication, at least with regard to the use, Dafoe's character Cisco makes of it. Maybe it is truly symptomatic for our time that people would say farewell to their other loved ones via online communication programs and gadgets before they perish. A Vietnamese delivery boy does the same, asking for the use of Cisco's laptop to "see" his far away family for a last time. His silent note plays a strong cord for certain as does Skye's farewell to her mother! The beautiful premise of 4:44 Last Day on Earth of a couple: mature actor (Cisco) and young painter (Skye) spending Earth's last day together could have delivered so much I imagine, and in a few scenes it actually does. Skye's vulnerability and her clinging to her art are such expressive and tender moments. But most of the time the wooden acting by Dafoe, something I had not expected from him, and suspended emptiness in that "wait" for the last moment, that's what you mostly get from the film.For Science Fiction enthusiasts the flick should still be on their list, but with very limited expectations I warn. From me it gets a lukewarm half a thumb up, one and a half down.

Claudio Carvalho The ecologically devastated world will end at 4:44 h of the next day. In New York, the fifty and something year-old Cisco (Willem Dafoe) and his younger wife Skye (Shanyn Leigh) spend their last day together in their apartment, waiting for the coming doomsday."4:44 Last Day on Earth" is a boring and dramatic movie by Abel Ferrara disclosing the last day on Earth of a couple of lovers in New York. The movie seems to be sponsored by the Skype with many calls from their apartment using this software. The uninteresting plot is basically a filmed storyline with the usual use of religious images by Ferrara and nothing else. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "4:44 - O Fim do Mundo" ("4:44 - Last Day on Earth")