This looked promising from the trailer but delivered absolutely nothing. I kept waiting for the story to get moving, then I realized that the film was 75% over. It was incredibly boring, the story was nonsensical, and the characters were completely uninspired. Don't waste your time.

I understand some of the frustrations with this movie, largely because of the trailer, and the fact that it was advertised to me as a horror thriller, far from it, it's a meaningful story about the end of life as we know it, one woman's challenge, and her handling of change when a man appears.

Very visual, it has some poignant scenes, I particularly liked the decayed and rotten streets and buildings, they looked incredible.

There are multiple messages here, I appreciate that in amongst the many negative ones, there is one that shines through the whole way through, human spirit.

Tragic beauty, 7/10.

IO is another Netflix-produced post-apocalypse movie; they seem to be ten a penny these days yet many of them are only so-so and this is such a film. It starts off very much as THE LAST WOMAN ON EARTH, with man's constant polluting of our planet leading to the very air becoming toxic; everyone else has decamped to space. After a bit of soul searching, THE HURT LOCKER's Anthony Mackie shows up but instead of the thriller plot promised from the trailer we get endless soul searching and pretentious dialogue about mythology and the like. There's no faulting the cinematography or the performances, but this style-over-substance effort is crying out for a real story.