Z for Zachariah (2015)

Preacher's daughter Ann Burden (Margot Robbie) survives a nuclear apocalypse alone with her dog. Her family had left to search for other survivors. She scavenges supplies from the nearby abandoned town. One day, she encounters John Loomis (Chiwetel Ejiofor). He gets sick from contaminated water and she nurses him back to health. There is tension especially with her religious beliefs but they grow closer. Then, another stranger named Caleb (Chris Pine) appears out of nowhere.Robbie is the it girl right now although her role would be played more effective by a more mousy, quiet actor. She needs to be a plain tomboy and possibly rougher. She doesn't seem to be doing any specific accent which leaves the location unknown. The stripped down plot is effective. It's a slow start and needs a better way to pull in the audience. It should follow Loomis at the start as he escapes the devastation. That would be compelling although it may be beyond the no-budget production. Once the triangle is formed at midway, the movie picks up a little steam. It's an apocalyptic movie not for the usual fans.

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.

In my modest opinion it is an underrated movie. Of course it has it's mistake but still had shown us some good things. you will go through the interesting life of three characters who have fallen in love triangle which was pretty exciting and interesting for me and this was introduced by many great ways.To start with the soundtrack which was great and made us blend with the events. Then we cannot deny the great performance by both Margot Robbie who proved to me that she is a great actress and Chiwetel Ejiofor who is one of my favorite actors, Chris Pine wasn't bad but he wasn't as good as them. The Maestro of this piece is Craig Zobel who has shown to us his own personality in his work and he has a respectable view who I totally loved.You live 90 minutes of love struggling which ended in the best way it could by showing us that love is always the same whatever the world is.

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.