An interesting concept, filled with many tension-filled sequences that will keep you on the edge of your seat. This is a smartly put together film that assumes the audience can fill in the blanks as to what’s taking place. There’s no exposition here. Only newspaper clippings and a few handwritten notes explain how things got the way they are. The story drags in a few places, primarily due to the lack of a plot. It’s just the day to day lives of these survivors. It’s interesting to see how innovatively they’ve learned to keep safe, but you’re constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop. Once it does, the last portion of the film is almost nonstop tension. Even when it looks like the threat is over for now, they’re right back into the fire. The acting is strong, and so much is conveyed by the use of only facial expressions. The score does a fantastic jog of ramping up the intensity. The effects are excellent, and the alien creatures are well designed and look real. The pacing is a bit strange near the end and they resort to a few cliché’s like jump scares, but these are small complaints.
**** out of *****