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I just can't forgive lazy writing. The plot was good but wasn't delivered effectively. I don't blame the acting (though its hard not to see Norman as Darryl (especially as he is rocking the same look as TWD series).

Essentially I found it hard to believe that Bauer descends so quickly into a murderous rage when the sleep pod malfunctions and almost kills him. When he reviews the footage and sees Cartwright was almost catatonic at the time, surely his first impression would be to confront him about his delusions.

Why the hell would they pump air into that huge facility each time the wake up when 2 people would use a fraction of the air by wearing suits and breathing bottled air? This is the most glaring logic flaw. You could last for days on the air remaining inside the facility without any re-circulation machinery running.

How does Cartwright get all the way to the top of the silo and look out over the broken city and then get back in time? It looks like the site was nuked so how does their silo survive without a single indication. It is right next door to the destroyed one.

How does Cartwright survive getting shot?

How does Bauer know "it's all a lie" when they have no way of knowing if the other facilities are on line or not.

Too many questions. Too many failures of logic.

After a chemical war, the technicians Bauer (Norman Reedus) and Cartwright (Djimon Hounsou) are responsible for keeping working chambers with prominent persons in suspended animation that have been selected to build a post-apocalypse society in an underground facility. Cartwright has moments of insanity talking to his mate Abby (Sandrine Holt) while performing the maintenance procedure. When his chamber is accidentally damaged, he decides to use the breathing apparatus to seek spare parts in a nearby facility, but he discloses a terrible secret. Meanwhile Bauer rewind the footages inside the facility and discovers that Cartwright is planning to kill him.

"Air" is a deceptive low budget movie with a messy, pointless and boring story. The dialogs are dull and there are basically two characters. After the end of the film, it is difficult to write a summary of the confused story. The cult-actor Norman Reedus from "The Walking Dead" and his agent should select better screenplays. My vote is three.

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Even though, the acting was descent and the original premise for the story showed promise in the end it was predictable and rubbish. The only thing that i found interesting was a bet I made with myself: You have two guys, one is a black man and the other resembles Sean Bean a lot. If it was Sean Bean I wouldn't even bother to bet but hey that's someone who looks a lot like him. So who will die first??? It seems that just looking like Sean Bean is enough to get you killed. Other than that you have two guys that are bordering crazy. One doesn't give a f**k but is edgy, and another who does whatever his imaginary wife in his subconscious tells him to do. Yeah it seems that wife doesn't even need to be alive (or awoken in that case) to call the shots.

FFS I shouldn't even check the spoiler alert box, it's so cliché and predictable that even 10 year old's would figure it out within a few minutes, couple that with an extremely deflating ending and you have one of the worst sci-fi (really?? Sci-fi???? that's not even sci-fi or thriller or whatever) movie of the decade!

AIR is a generally dull indie two-hander for two popular actors, Norman Reedus of THE WALKING DEAD fame and GLADIATOR star Djimon Hounsou. They play two engineers in a futuristic landscape (glimpsed via some disappointing CGI vistas) where toxic air has killed off most of the population. Their job consists of them doing little more than tending to various instruments, but before long their isolation and claustrophobia sees them falling out. A film like this lives or dies depending on the script, but this one offers little suspense and a whole lot of lazy character-building. Reedus and Hounsou are as good as ever; the rest is a mess.

I give this a 6.5 but u can't do that so I rounded it up to a 7. I really liked this film up until it's first ending... At about 1:25:00. Then it seemed like they gave in to the crowd who says "what happens after that?" or even worse the crowd who says "oh, u have to show the guy get the girl" and added an additional ending that was, in the lightest of terms, unnecessary. To me, it just messed up a really good film.

This is a sci-fi drama about two guard/maintenance workers at an airtight silo housing VIP scientists who are all in a sort of cryogenic sleep because the outside world has been contaminated. These guards are also in a sort of cryogenic and every six months they are automatically awoken to analyze data about the air in the outside world and do routine maintenance on the pods/facility. Evidentially, these VIP scientists are meant to foster in a new civilization when the outside environment becomes hospitable again.

This was designed/written to be a relatively inexpensive film to shoot. There are only 3 characters and they are underground an in a fairly small place so it's obviously a dialogue driven film and the tension was done pretty well. Sure, it could have been done better but this a good start for this director. Just should have ended it where It should have ended, 5 minutes early.

Overall, solid film. As I said, my rating is a 6.5.

Can I say first off, that my wife came into the room when I was about 30 minutes into this and I managed to convince her for 10 minutes that it was the new episode of the Walking Dead - oh how we laughed when she discovered my joke.

To save you all from watching this, I can sum the film up for you in a few sentences.

The guy who plays Daryl out of off of The Walking Dead takes a break from the series for about 15 minutes, and goes over the road to another studio where someone has set up as a 'delapidated basement plant room' set. Also, the main guy out of off of Amistad and whatever else he's been in does the same.

There, they play two scruffy air conditioning engineers who wake up six months out of cryogenic submersion (the Amistad guy managed to get through this without growing any facial hair whatsoever) and the two bicker and argue for 10 minutes before one locks the other out of the facility. Whislt outside, we get to see an alleged post apocalyptic city on the horizon (this 20 second scene was what most of the films budget went into so bear with me and make the most of that mental image if you would) The guy out of off of Amistad then tries to get back inside only to be shot in the chest by Daryl out of off of The Walking Dead but makes a frankly completely implauasble recovery and manages to get rid of poor Daryl.

The end.

If you want to watch this utter pile of pigs number twos, please go ahead and tell me all the action, necessary dialogue, special effects, plot holes and plot developments I may have missed, but I watched it all the way through without interruption, and wrote this immediately after. That's the film folks. It's been done before with almost identical formats, with other cheapo TV actors who may have also thought it would be a good idea not to bother getting a cut and blowdry for a movie this big as The Walking Dead image is more important.

I strongly recommend to anyone reading this who hasn't seen the film but doesn't believe me to go ahead and take the plunge. I guarantee you'll be wanting those 90 minutes of your life back. I know I do.

3 out of 10,and THATS being generous. Thanks for calling.

The government(s) create "Noah Ark Facilities" in order to survive the "tyranny" as hybrid nuclear and chemical weapons destroy life on earth. Two people are tasked with waking up every six months and perform checks, then go back to sleep. Bauer (Norman Reedus) likes porn and masturbation. Cartwright (Djimon Hounsou) imagines and talks to his wife (Sandrine Holt). Cartwright's sleeper unit becomes damaged which sets the plot in motion as our two try to find a fix.

Oh yes, if you come out of the "high tech coffin" unit too fast, the oxygen transition can effect the brain.

This is a slow paced two man (and one imagined woman) drama with a sci-fi background. It is a character study. The scant details of what happened comes about 20 minutes into the movie. A twist? Sure. The main problem is that we see the same two guys. Eventually I came to dislike Bauer and pity Cartwright, finding myself rooting for someone who may be a touch mentally ill.

Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.

The idea of no air on the planet was awesome, the story behind the movie seemed good and motivated me to watch it. But the way everything goes, it's plain boring, it feels exactly like one of those Walking Dead episodes where nothing exciting really happens, what a shame. The two actors are good, but I didn't understood the behavior of Cartwright, it's seems just stupid and without logic. Anyway since I'm not allowed to spoil anything, I will just say that it feels like a really low budget movie these days, yeah some people might say that it's similar to old movies from the 80's or the 90's, but even those movies had more content. In "Air" you get almost no information about the past or the future, no explanation about the events that happened, are happening and that will happen, and that time counter ... it's a joke. I gave a 4 because the two actors are doing a good job, but the problem it's not them, it's the guy who wrote this story and the director who made the scenes ... A good idea that was flushed down the toilet ... Best adjective to describe this movie: disappointed

This movie was like I said above meh... The story it self was not great, not horrible, not even good or bad it was just bland and not really very imaginative. And trust me it is the story that kills, not the setting or the acting, or the filming all of which were at least good. It is the the monotonous, going exactly where you think it is, plot. If you expect a twist or turn in this flick forget it. And not a thinking mans movie either, maybe for a 10 year-old. And while it has a sci fi setting it is really just a tenuous excuse for a dialogue movie about a person who has lost their bearing on reality in a desperate situation. Think two people (one of which is murderously crazy) in a life boat, with one bottle of water story. As a 30 minute story it would have been better and that may stretch it. I had to watch it twice because it put me to sleep in the first 15 minutes, I woke up in the last 10 minutes and knew exactly what was going on. Meh.. More effort on a decent plot would have helped a lot.

This has gone too far!!!, Let me warn you about something if you intend to watch this movie... its one more film that is made using only 2 actors so that they can minimize the cost and make lots of money selling junk(like most of the films that come out the last 5 years),in the beginning I thought the director had chosen intentionally the equipment of the facility that the film was set on to be outdated monitors and metallic boxes with colorful lights to make it look like its some retro post apocalyptic set up , THATS NOT THE CASE, if you look back in the movie and take notice between the CRT monitors are some TFT screens with windows ( most probably they went and bought for a few bucks old displays and put some other crap in there like tft just because they were laying around) , while in the movie there are old light bulbs in the buttons of the boxes we can see that in the hazmat suit there is a cheap Chinese led bar light (probably brought off ebay for 3 $),the hazmat suit is made of stitched plastic wrap material like the one that is used in the base of tents for outdoor camping) , WE ARE SUPPOSED to believe that people had been in cryo stasis chambers for lots of years when the chambers are not even air tight (when the lid opens in the end of the movie we can see black foam material used for isolation THE SAME ONE WE BUY FROM SUPERMARKETS TO CLOSE GAPS IN OUR WINDOWS AND DOORS), in the back of the hazmat suit is a plastic tube in gray color that I bet my head is bought off Leroy merlin or Praktiker for toilets and bathrooms ,DO I NEED TO SAY ANYTHING MORE ? TAKE A 1 OUT OF 10 AND THATS TOO MUCH FOR WASTING ALL THESE PEOPLES TIME,either make a proper movie or STOP IT

I overall liked the movie. But the ending was really bad. This is a movie where the wimpy wins and gets his happy ending. He should have been the one who should have died. And then the last scene could have still stayed similar. Where the Norman Reedus character wakes up to the world being safe again.. Pods opening, people waking up and then facing her. And then wondering about the past actions present in the movie. What it took to get there and everything that happened. It's just really unsatisfactory that the other guy lived as he tried to kill him at the pod and was already losing his mind. Or even an ending where they both would have died would have been more satisfactory. The most unlikeable character won everything. It just left a really bad taste in your mouth after the movie ended.