Goodbye World

     The cover makes it look pretty good right?  Even the premise sounds promising.  When I looked at this I thought that it might be like a Walking Dead, or maybe Revolution, or Jericho, all of which I would fully recommend, but this... nope.

     Goodbye World is a perfect example of "don't judge a book by its cover".  It is absolutely horrible.  It embodies everything that gives Indie films a bad name.  

     The premise has a ton of potential.  A mass text which reads "goodbye world" goes out to every phone in America.  The text opens the door for very bad people to infiltrate the America communications network, and a virus shuts down all things connected to the web, which is just about everything.  With the infrastructure down, all chaos breaks loose.  There are riots, looting, and a generalized shutdown of society as we know it.  But then, it gets weird.

     The story follows a group of intellectualized friends who reunite at a cabin away from society, after years apart.  They each have diverse lives now, but used to be great friends.  Instead of mayhem and destruction, as the cover would suggest, you get to listen to the extremely boring politics, personal histories, and intellectualized, unrealistic ideals.  The cabin is well prepared for an apocalypse because the couple living there are completely "granola", and the house is self-sustained with solar panels, gardens, and a well-supplied basement with meds and whatnot.  There is a weak love triangle.  The dialog is horrendous.  The focus of the movie is so boring I almost fell asleep.  

     To make matters worse, the director threw a bunch of swear words in (a lot of "F" words) because the movie couldn't stand on its own.  You could almost feel the director or writer's desperation as they tried to make the movie appeal to an "adult" audience.  

     The actors were horrible, and none of the characters were believable.  I wanted to stop this movie so many times, but kept watching hoping the the group would be slaughtered by real people.  Sadly, that never happened.  What little conflict did arise was so fake, and diffused by hippy love, that it made the whole plot fall flat.

     Do not watch this movie.  Do not make your worst enemy watch this movie.  It is more than just bad.  It was one of the worst movies I've ever watched.

     I give this movie

That's 0 stars. None.  Zilch.