The most redeeming quality of this film was the lovely British countryside shown.The story is thin and hard to believe, one more example of how a bad script is impossible to transform into good film.
It amazes me some of the glowing reviews on IMDb...either these people were watching a different film or working for Film 4.
This is the story of an American girl, Daisy (Ronan), who comes to visit English cousins mainly because her father is too busy to look after her and her mother is dead. Yet her visit oddly is ill timed being on the verge of a nuclear war that supposedly wipes out London an spreads fallout over a wide area...radioactive ash that cover everything yet doesn't seem to affect the Daisy and Co.
Even though she initially dislikes her new home, she just as quickly falls for her teenage cousin Eddie. They make love and she's smitten, even though they're first cousins.
But after the bomb, for some reason the army is in the rural countryside rounding up and splitting up families in relocation camps. From there the are forced to work in the fields...we don't know why. On the other hand the unknown enemy invaders seem intent on killing civilians.
Eventually the bulk of the film revolves around Daisy trying to get back to her first love Eddie, with her youngest cousin Piper in tow.
We never know why there's a war and who is fighting and how it ends. It just does and so does the film, with no sign of radiation poisoning hitting anyone. Maybe this is why Film 4 is hard-up for cash and has to depend on the National Lottery.
It amazes me some of the glowing reviews on IMDb...either these people were watching a different film or working for Film 4.
This is the story of an American girl, Daisy (Ronan), who comes to visit English cousins mainly because her father is too busy to look after her and her mother is dead. Yet her visit oddly is ill timed being on the verge of a nuclear war that supposedly wipes out London an spreads fallout over a wide area...radioactive ash that cover everything yet doesn't seem to affect the Daisy and Co.
Even though she initially dislikes her new home, she just as quickly falls for her teenage cousin Eddie. They make love and she's smitten, even though they're first cousins.
But after the bomb, for some reason the army is in the rural countryside rounding up and splitting up families in relocation camps. From there the are forced to work in the fields...we don't know why. On the other hand the unknown enemy invaders seem intent on killing civilians.
Eventually the bulk of the film revolves around Daisy trying to get back to her first love Eddie, with her youngest cousin Piper in tow.
We never know why there's a war and who is fighting and how it ends. It just does and so does the film, with no sign of radiation poisoning hitting anyone. Maybe this is why Film 4 is hard-up for cash and has to depend on the National Lottery.