I thought the premise was good. Normal people on vacation at an AirB&B get caught in the middle of a cyber attack. How does one survive? What would normal people do?
The problem for me with this movie is the characters are not normal. The white wife says she doesn't like people. The black daughter is a racist. The black father has too many secrets. The white son is an annoying jerk to his little sister throughout the entire movie. The survivalist is a greedy and selfish psychopath.
Normal people don't act like this (even normal survivalists). Normal people would get to the bottom of things more quickly. Normal people would work together in an emergency.
This is the problem with Hollywood for me. They don't make movies about normal people. Every character has to have emotional, psychological, or mental problems. Or be gay, or trans, or woke, or a psychopath, etc.
I thought the premise was interesting. But the soap opera laid on top of it took away from what could have been a good movie. I didn't care about the characters because they were so abnormally screwed up. I found their personality problems annoying and distracting.
The cyber attack and impending civil war would have been enough conflict for me.
- The deer were supposed to be symbolic of something. But totally unrealistic. Deer never have, and never would act like that.
- Flamingos live in the tropics and subtopics. No reason to ever fly to New York. Maybe they escaped from a zoo because of the cyber attack.
- Lyme disease doesn't make your teeth fall out. Especially the next day.
This movie makes some good points, like how dependent most of us are on modern technology --- GPS, Internet, cellphones, computers, streaming, etc. And how when it all goes down, how lost most of us are.
But although I watched it all the way to the end, the unnecessary --- and seemingly obligatory soap opera took away from my enjoyment of what could have been a very interesting and entertaining movie --- for me.