 | MOVIE DETAILS • Name: Air • Year: 2015 • Country: USA • Director: Christian Cantamessa • Main cast: Norman Reedus, Djimon Hounsou, Sandrine Holt • Runtime: 95 minutes • Production company: Automatik Entertainment, Circle of Confusion, Skybound Entertainment • TRAILER |
Air is the first film from Christian Cantamessa, a guy who found himself a spot in the world of creating horror videogames. And after a few short films, this first adventure in a feature movie is a little distant to all those previous creppy scary monster videogames.
Air is placed in a post-apocalyptic world, where the breathable air is totally extinct. The movie only talks about the situation in the United States of America, but it would be easy to assume that the rest of the planet followed the same fate. Come on, yankees, you guys are not alone in the world!
The idea of building some kind of Noah’s Ark to save some of the most brilliant minds in the world in a permanent sleeping status waiting for the Earth to be inhabitable again is not new. But in this movie all the action follows the life of the maintance crew whose job is to take care and preserve the hibernating chosen people. Air is a claustrophobic survival movie where the 2 keepers stuck in an underground metal building have to fight against time to get the precious air back and survive, only waking up for a few hours every 6 months in order to accomplish some maintance routines.
All the action stands in the characters played by Norman Reedus and Djimon Hounsou, two actors with charisma but not the best of dramatic skills. Also the novice director had a big responsability to create the feeling of ultimate danger and chemistry between the actors, and that is a job he didn’t succeed. Although the underground facility is convincing enough, thanks to a very good work of the art design department, you never have the feeling of being witnessing the end of human kind as the moment imposes. Not very believable situations, a total lack of chemestry of the actors, and some basic story mistakes like a total bad planning of the Noah’s Ark itself makes this movie not to be very credible at all. You only preserve a few bunch of illustrious personalities but no technology or knowledge? No books, recordings or art? No reference from the past society besides a cut from a baseball game and some news clips? What about food? What are the survalving ones going to eat if the air gets ever breathable again? No one thought of saving plants or animals? I don’t know, there are so many questions, so many things that are not taken care of that make this whole installation nothing but a simple exercise of claustrophobic post-apocalyptic thriller without much interest.
A movie only for fans of Norman Reedus and The Walking Dead series. But don’t look for a competent end-of-the-world film here. It might not be too annoying to watch, but it’s not a good film.
RATE: 3,5/10
IMDB URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2091478
