Analog-Theater 2.0

The Quiet Earth stars Bruno Lawrence as a New Zealand scientist named Zac Hobson who was working on a project called Project Flashlight to harness energy directly from a grid around the Earth.  However, he wakes up one morning to find that he is the only person around.  Everyone else had disappeared.  He comes across a plane crash with not bodies, but all the seat belts fastened.  He goes to his lab and notices that one of the monitors says “Project Flashlight Complete” and realizes that it was the cause of everyone disappearing.  After getting over the initial panic, he starts to enjoy his solitary life.  He loots a mall, moves into a mansion, and does whatever he wants.  Then he starts to break down.  He realizes that it was the project he was working on that caused everyone to disappear.  He starts crossdressing and almost commits suicide.  Finally he discovers that he’s not alone, he meets Joanne (Alison Routledge).  Later they meet Api (Pete Smith).  The three of them realize that they are the only people around because they were all on the verge of death when the Project Flashlight activated.  Zac also realizes that the incident might happen again.  The three of them get a truck full of explosives and go to blow up the laboratory where Project Flashlight is located.  Zac ends up driving the truck into the lab just as the incident starts happening.  He then wakes up on a beach somewhere.  He looks up at the sky and sees clouds that look like waterspouts and a ringed planet.

The ending threw me for a loop.  I saw it, rewinded it and watched it again and was just left going “huh?”  I made no sense to me.  All I can think is that he was blown to one of Jupiter’s moons.

As far as the rest of the movie went, it was boring.  There was supposed to be a love triangle between the three characters, but I didn’t really notice any.  Zac was too busy investing what happened to the exclusion of almost anything else so Joanne started to pay more attention to Zac, but that ended quickly and at one point she pulled a machine on both of them and threated to kill one of them and said she didn’t care which.

The acting was mediocre, the plot was weak, the movie was boring, the ending made no sense.  I give this movie 0 bananas because there was nothing there.

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