Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

It's not that Z For Zachariah is bad for any particular stand-out reason - it's more than it's an amalgamation of things that don't work together. As such, it comes across as some sort of Lifetime drama you might watch in a hospital where pain-relieving drugs might fix the problems of the third act. It's a gentle snooze, pregnant with promise to explode into violence, but instead is satisfied with turning a church into a hydro-electric generator somewhere towards the end. It needed some external force to nudge the main characters into action - either the threat of zombies (The Walking Dead), the end of the world's food supply (Interstellar) or the ticking timebomb of death (and watching Arnie trying to act) in Maggie. Instead, the cast is happy to eat, drink, farm, walking around slowly in radiation suits, and chat. And for readers of the original book who didn't see the trailer, Chris Pine's late arrival creates what is adventurously described as a "love triangle" which lets the movie coast into a finale that doesn't really resolve anything. Ultimately the movie conversion removes the themes of the book and replaces them with Chris Pine and a waterwheel. It's so spectacularly uncinematic that you have to wonder how it got through the production process. In all fairness, the acting is fine and Margot Robbie is good, but there is less tension in the whole movie than in the opening credits of The Walking Dead. It's a little like ordering a pizza and the car shows up with a pack of cereal - it's probably better for you but you can't escape the disappointment.