The End

There's a story here about quietly ratcheting tension between survivors in the post-apocalypse. Unfortunately, that tension is repeatedly undercut by largely mediocre musical numbers that bloat the runtime of the film, as well as a time-skip ending that takes everything the film seemed to be building towards and throws it out the window. It's not a bad film, to the extent that I did feel compelled to watch it through to its conclusion, but now that I've seen how underwhelming that conclusion is, I have no desire to return to it in the future.

If only there were enough actresses in the post apocalypse that didn't need autotune when singing. And much too much transport to justify 2.5 hours runtime.

This feels like a smug conversation piece for smug New York high society theatre audiences that find it quaint on so many levels.

For myself it was a disappointment after the mind-blowing The Act of Killing.

This is the exact type of musical that I despise. The cast, production, genres, and synopsis put this on my watchlist. I usually avoid trailers so finding out it was a musical was a surprise. I gave it a chance, and to put it short, 'The End' was what I was hoping for. No wonder they disguise 'remakes' and 'reimaginings' as musicals. I can't name one original musical that isn't a classic or Disney. It took me ten minutes, never mind the bold two and a half hour runtime, to realise that Joker 2 was one of the best recent reimaginings we've gotten, as far as musicals go, of course.

This was not good. Maybe musical lovers will love this. The characters felt too artificial.