It starts off with a fairly interesting premise, some philosophy students debating moral issues at the end of the world. But it quickly falls down when it succumbs to pathetic teenage morals and self-righteousness. But I think it's the misrepresentation of philosophy that make it so infuriating. The idea that at the end of the course the so-called top student still isn't able to disengage her own moral code long enough to join in the thought experiment. What have they been doing all year, if this is the first time that her sense of moral right and wrong is being challenged? Also, philosophy is the exploration of ideas and thoughts. So, what kind of philosophy teacher starts marking down his students because they show thoughts and opinions that differ from his own? He should be encouraging independent thought. Then, in the final act the right shows his true disregard for philosophy when logic is utterly shut down by emotional arguments. I assume this is just to make an appeal to the over emotional teens this movie is aimed at. Serves me right for watching this rubbish, I suppose.

I hardly ever write reviews unless a movie is incredible or pure trash. This movie is pure trash. I am still in disbelief at how bad this movie is.1. The lead actress in the movie is so bad. Its so bad that all of her lines are almost straight monotone. 2. Their "logic" is anything but logical. It would be like having a thought experiment and in the middle someone say "i went into this room and there was a time machine and everyone lived happily ever after"...Its like there was no rules. You could make up whatever you would like. I was going to keep going with this but i just realized i have wasted too much time on this movie. I recommend skipping this horrible waste of time.

AFTER THE DARK is a non-starter of a film, financed by the USA but shot in a teaching school in Indonesia somewhere. The plot - if it can be called such - involves an eccentric teacher who takes a class of pupils on a metaphysical journey to explore the ethics and morality of an end-of-the-world scenario.That's it - this is a single location drama with a few excursions to make-believe worlds where the characters watch CGI mushroom clouds and the like. And it's not really a film at all, just a collection of scenes in which characters explore the human dynamics and relationships that would evolve if the world did collapse and a new society needed to be built from scratch.A project like this smacks of pretension, for me; why not just have the scenario play out properly instead of making it this quasi-fantasy teaching project? It could still have been achieved on a low budget. Watching the flights of fancy play out is extremely boring, and even worse, the characters are dull stereotypes. AFTER THE DARK raises a little interest by having some interesting actors in it (James D'Arcy as the teacher has done better work elsewhere, and Darl Sabara, Bonnie Wright, and George Blagden have all had better parts in other projects) but then squanders it by making the viewer feel like they're sitting in on a boring philosophy class.

Ten people do not have enough genetic diversity to save the human race, that sum has been estimated in 20k precisely selected individual or 100k random selected ones. They'd soon have a second or third generation dying of horrible genetic diseases and malformations. All that pompous logic gave birth to a crappy movie, just after the middle someone points out that there could be other survivors elsewhere, but that's not the initial condition, so even as an exercise it fails miserly. That said, it has even minor ridiculous fails in logic like every minute, that's a teenage movie made to impress an ignorant fast food society.