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Curtis (Michael Shannon) has visions of impending doom, or is he mentally disturbed. His bad dreams and hallucinations drive him to steal heavy equipment from his work and build a storm shelter in his backyard. Once his supervisor finds out, and he loses his job. His wife Samantha (Jessica Chastain) is at her wit's end. The family is in dire's straits, and he's losing his sanity.Writer/Director Jeff Nichols creates a nightmare without end. But it's the amazing intensity from Michael Shannon that makes it work. His acting and the landscape creates the required atmosphere. However at 2 hours, the movie is a little too long. There are stretches in the middle that are too slow. It definitely needs trimming.

is how wrong (imo) so many reviews, including those of professional critics, were about this movie. Maybe my expectations were too high going in but I have not been so excruciatingly bored in years. Usually when this happens, I find at least some distraction in the scenery, cinematography or writing. Sadly, not here. The writing was flat and sketchy, the photography pedestrian. It seemed as this film progressed that the pace became slower...and slower...a.n.d......s.l.o.w.e.r. I was reminded of that great old Bob & Ray radio show about the slowest talker in the world.The whole thing was like a badly remembered episode of Twilight Zone. Maybe it would have worked as a half hour on a small screen.One of the few times I really wished I could get my 2 hours back. :(((

This film is so slow and so boring I found myself wishing an apocalyptic storm would whip up and flatten the whole world just so it would end.