The Day (2011) Movie Review

The apocalypse is bad enough, but throw in a pack of starving cannibals that like to attack in numbers? Man, could things get any worst? Turns out, yes — when a member of a survivalist group is revealed not to be who they said they were, a secret that could get them all killed. Or turn into snacks. Possibly both. That is the situation the five characters of Douglas Aarniokoski’s post-apocalyptic “The Day” find themselves in, as their would-be salvation, a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere, turns out to be their last stand. “The Day” is a meshing of two genres that I’ve always been a sucker for — post-apocalyptic movies and last stand films. The film is set 10 years after some unexplored cataclysm has turned America into “The Road Warrior”, minus the guys in hockey masks and souped up muscle cars. We follow high school buddies Rick (“Lost’s” Dominic Monaghan), Adam (Shawn Ashmore), and Henson (“Battle: Los