Review: Day Zero
Penguin January 5th, 2008
Rating: 1.5 stars
Day Zero is a about three friends who get drafted by the US Army. Each one is in a different place in life and has different reactions to the call. They have 30 days to get everything sorted out before they’re shipped out.
I went into this not knowing anything about it. From the way it opened, I expected at least half of the film to show them actually in the field. But none of that happens. Instead, there’s a lot of talking between the three characters that doesn’t really go anywhere. I’m all for character dramas, but none of these characters are really that interesting. None of the characters go through an arc. They’re the same people at the end of the story as they were when they began.
And that’s the problem. It’s just not interesting. They set up the conflict as the draft, but we don’t care about the characters enough to not want them to go and fight. That would’ve been much more interesting. To be conscripted and not wanting to fight, but forced to. Or if they didn’t have the budget, for them to come back, completely changed. As it is, it’s just boring.
-Penguin
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