Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

celtic451 This was one of the worst movies I've seen in a long time. Almost literally nothing happens. No real passion, no real conflict, no real plot, no conclusion, no story. There is very very subtle jealousy, and I guess you could call it conflict as the new guy causes "concern" for the established man of the house and that is about it. Oh, they do build a water wheel together - that is literally about all that is accomplished in the entire movie. The only saving grace for me was it did make me sleepy before I went to bed. I could write a better movie than this with one of my frontal lobes tied behind my back. Complete waste of time.

Irie212 Even if this movie is seen as an allegory, or a modern Bible story, it is hard to accept a post-apocalyptic landscape in which no horror or tragedy is ever shown. Instead, nuclear apocalypse is a plot device used to isolate three characters in a love triangle-- a rather extreme device.A young woman (Margot Robbie in a fine performance) lives on a farm in a secluded valley that somehow escaped the nuclear holocaust. She is joined by two men who managed to survive because they were both underground when it happened. The first to arrive is John (Chiwetel Ejiofor), an engineer wearing complex hazmat gear. Later on, Caleb (Chris Pine) arrives, though he skulks around stealing eggs before he's discovered. For all they know, they are the last three people on Earth, people whose survival is very much in question. Their secluded farm, like the Garden of Eden, is an illogical phenomenon that only makes sense as fiction. That's fine, as long as there's a reason to dispense with rationality in the interests of a message, or at least entertainment. I'm not sure that "Z for Zachariah" manages that, because it is diverting but enigmatic, and ultimately unsatisfying. Themes of religion and rebuilding are introduced, but not explored. Alcohol is introduced a few times, only to confuse motivations of characters we barely understand in the first place. The movie is careless about all the characters, in fact-- especially the fourth one, a dog named Faro. He is the girl's constant companion on the farm at first. Then the men arrive, the plot begins, and the movie drops the dog without a word of explanation. (Perhaps Caleb ate him? Hot dog and eggs?)It is classified as sci-fi on IMDb and other places, but use of the word "radioactive" doesn't qualify a movie as science fiction, and I saw nothing else that looked like science, unless you count an engineer building a water-wheel. Really, it's a chick flick that's set in a minimally-realized future. It's not an ordinary chick flick, in that there is no girl talk, but the movie's subject is not survival or the future, it's human emotions under stress-- love, loneliness, jealousy.If you agree that emotions are what will matter most to the last three people on earth after a nuclear holocaust, then this movie may be for you.NB: I haven't read the book, which I gather is superior to the film. But a movie has to stand on its own merits, so the original source material is ultimately irrelevant. As Tom Wolfe said when asked about the film version of Bonfire of the Vanities, "I retained the right to cash the check."

quark18 I won't say,"the book is better than the movie," because I read the book only after watching this movie. I will say that the movie tells a completely different story than the book, borrowing Robert C. O'Brien's characters and setting.The ending as given in the movie suggests that John Loomis killed Caleb, by pushing him down into the radioactive water and sacrificing the safe suit. Otherwise, why would Caleb leave without saying goodbye to Ann and without taking his things and supplies? I like the suggestion from a fellow reviewer that the scene at 1:26 showing Ann rolling a glass off the table and leaning on a book suggests that she imagined the whole thing because she's bored. Lack of dialogue in the final scenes supports this suggestion.The John Loomis character in the book is a control freak and a killer who tries to rape Ann and Ann hates him. At the end, she outsmarts him and steals his safe suit to leave the valley. This is the act of a smart and strong girl who decides to explore the unknown, leaving behind her possibly the only other human living on earth. But just because he's the only other man around doesn't mean that she has to live with him or mate with him. This is the diametric opposite of the Ann character shown in the movie, who is a wishy-washy girl caught between two men. Please. The men who made this movie should remember that the Ann character was created by a male writer, Robert C. O'Brien. They should also consider what kind of message they're sending to women by distorting her character in this way.Good things about this movie: the beauty of New Zealand and Chris Pine's eyes. But I can watch the beauty of New Zealand in "The Lord of the Rings" and Chris Pine in other films.The movie also serves as PR for Robert C. O'Brien's book, which is a good thing. I also read his "Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" as a child after watching the animated film version and picked it up again after reading this one. Reading it as an adult, I wonder where O'Brien's preoccupation with disaster came from.

Desertman84 Beauteous Margot Robbie stars in an apocalyptic tale in Z For Zachariah.Together with Chiwetel Ejiofor and Chris Pine,it tells a story of a young woman who finds herself to be the last woman surviving on earth.This film directed by Craig Zobel is based on the book of the same title by Robert C. O'Brien.After the nuclear war have occurred,a young woman Ann Burden finds herself on her own and has had thoughts about being the last person remaining on earth.But later,she is relieved to discover another living person in John Loomis,who happens to be a scientist that has been extremely affected by radiation exposure.He is also in search for others just like her.They become close friends and started doing things together.They almost started to have sex but Loomis rejects the idea to avoid problems later.After they discover some their foods being stolen,they get to realize that there exist another survivor in Caleb.All three develop into a close relationship with Caleb and Ann later having sex which Loomis rejects.Then,tensions arises which brings problems to their bond.This was definitely an ambitious project of telling a post apocalyptic tale.The idea could be really interesting especially with what happened to the planet during the end of the world.Too bad that the story become a little bit simplistic that mainly focuses on the characters of the allegedly three remaining people on earth who got to know each other and awkwardly got involved in a love triangle.Also,the story development is somewhat too slow and boring.Other things could be further explored but too bad is the movie just tells the story of three remaining people in the world and nothing more.