Before the Fire

What are these people thinking? Anyone who rated this movie 1/10 has never seen a REALLY TERRIBLE movie AND anyone who rated this movie 10/10 has never seen a REALLY GREAT movie. This movie was a typical low budget movie (simple plot, simple characters, predictable in every aspect). At 1 1/2 hours long it was OK. It's all in the expectations. Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed.

I really enjoyed this. Certain portions (particularly backstory) were left to the imagination - a la Hitchcock's Pscho or Jaws style--and it worked...very well. The story was well laid out, but the audience wasn't spoon-fed (which I appreciated). The acting was really convincing. Cinematography was great. It painted an ominous picture, did a really good job capturing the fear and despair, and this movie was shot several years ago--before the current pandemic. I realized while watching that I found myself tensed up in anticipation. I don't want to drop a spoiler so I can't even comment on my favorite scene. I was surprised this wasn't rating higher--until I pulled up the dispersal and noticed a troll was dropping 1-star ratings. Not sure who peed in the troll's wheaties, but he/she needs to get over it. This was a strong offering from an indie film. I will see it again.

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I felt the story kept me on the edge of my seat. The allusive details to the main characters past kept you wondering and made her a more interesting person. The acting was great, I felt like every scene was real with emotion. The details the director put into this film made me feel like I was in each scene. The cinematography was breathtaking! I loved this movie and was pleasantly surprised by the quality of this fantastic production. Worth watching and coming up with your own conclusion of this interesting film!!!

Hard to believe it's a low budget film. Really appreciated the director's ability to capture the feeling of a pandemic given that it was shot years ago. Surprisingly realistic. Great job!!

This film start with a girl "Ava" watching a house burning, and the flashback of Ava running away with her lover "Kelly" scene! As turnout, this film is about Ava need to avoid a bunch of intruder killing her, while the global pandemic occur! Entire film full of boring conversation, and annoying overuse scene! Such as, overuse of the news broadcasting scene, overuse of the honking scene, overuse of the walking scene, overuse of the staring scene, and overuse of the searching things scene! Make the film unwatchable! Barely intense scene is, a woman been shot dead, after asking Ava drive her away! At the end, Ava and Kelly both survive! That's it! Completely wasting time to watch!

If youy have some kind of trouble about sleeping, then you have to see this movie, because is super boring and you will fall sleep instantly. No plot, too slow, many plot holes and with many nonsenses. I will give it a score of 2, for only two reasons: cinematography, and the very beatiful lead actress.

This could have been excellent. Decent performance by female lead, but like many modern TV shows, the movie is simply all about stupid people making stupid decisions at every turn. These people deserved everything that came their way, as they had the collective intelligence of a baked bean. And another thing: Fighter jets don't fly low over empty farm land in a pandemic! Waste of gas. Huge chance of crashing. Jets fly high, producers, for many good reasons... Ultimately, this flick was a waste of a decent premise. It's billed as a sci-fi flick, but it's not. You have been warned.

You must have at least one likable character going from scene to scene doing reasonably intelligent things as previous reviewers have said - its not sci fi I wasted almost an hour hoping it would improve but it didn't I hope the film makers can learn that the audience needs to follow a character that behaves in a manner that we can support. To say there are gaps in the plot is an understatement.

As the other reviewer has pointed out, this is more of a drama than a post apocalyptic sci-fi action action film but it has a certain style and captures the pandemic angle using a low budget reasonably well and this has always to be taken into consideration, so there is no CGI and no effects but it does have some merit as the acting, photography and atmosphere is not bad and although the story kinda fizzles out at the end it is bleak , nasty and vicious even though a lot of the story is not explained in detail it deserves a fair and average 5/10.