Advantages: A good central concept and some nice ideas that will entertain the kids. Disadvantages: The budgetary constraints are clear.
The underground city of Ember was built after a global catastrophe in order to save the human race. It was only meant to last two hundred years - but two hundred and forty-one years later it is grinding to a halt as the infrastructure breaks down. The massive generator that produces all the heat and light is falling apart and the blackouts are getting more frequent and lasting longer. Food is in short supply and when the generator dies, the city dies with it. The only hope may be teenagers Doon and Lina who find a mysterious map that may lead to the surface and a new start. But the youngsters have to fight against corrupt government officials that include the greedy mayor, who doesn't want to believe the encroaching darkness may be the end of them?
"Monster House" director Gil Kenan follows up his animated debut with this family ...
Advantages: A fun, well told family adventure Disadvantages: Underdeveloped characters. Understated ending.
INTRODUCTION
Every now and again a film will kind of sneak up on you and take you completely by surprise. I knew my wife had wanted to see ?City of Ember? at the cinema, but I had taken one look at the trailer and dismissed it out of hand. However, when it made a recent appearance on the Sky Movies schedule, I relented, thinking that, without the added investment of having to buy cinema tickets, a bucket of popcorn and perhaps more importantly, using up a rare night out, I could always fall asleep on the couch if I wanted to.
SYNOPSIS
The film starts out with a flashback to a time when the fate of mankind is in the balance. An unidentified catastrophe is soon to make the earth uninhabitable, so a group of scientists (American obviously ? they?re always American) create an underground city, called Ember, to which ...
Advantages: Good idea and decent cast Disadvantages: Movie is over too quickly
Take the best ideas from Dark City, The Island, Logans Run & The Goonies and you think it'd make for a truly awesome movie. With the acting talents of Tim Robbins, Bill Murray & Martin Landau you do have 3 performances worth watching (especially Landau).
Set in some dystopian future after an unknown apocalyptic event the people who make decisions decide to create an underground city and leave it isolated for 200 years leaving them a box that would open after the 200 years expired with instructions for what to do next.
The box is passed down by the cities Mayors until 1 dies and the box is then forgotten from memory and lost in a cupboard. An unknown amount of years pass but the city called Ember by its inhabitants is decaying. It is running out of food and its power generators are gradually failing.
Enter our protagonists, 3 ...
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