400 days movie review rotten tomatoes năm 2024

400 Days uses a mission-simulation premise as part of an attempt to get away with making a space movie with astonishingly low production value. The vaguely named “ship” and paraphernalia aboard doesn’t even convince as the accoutrements of a simulated mission, and the frequent references to the “fake” spacesuits serve to emphasise rather than explain their cheapness.

Writer-director Matt Osterman lays potentially interesting psychological groundwork that, together with the plot, suggests an attempt to contribute to the great tradition of enthralling psychodrama-infused space epics that includes 2001: A Space Odyssey, the masterful Moon, and last year’s The Martian. While The Martian is a mediocre entry into this lucrative genre, 400 Days is an utterly incomplete idea desperately assembled.

Despite explicit intertitles the passage of time isn’t easy to gauge or believe. Dramatic pacing is almost non-existent, with more than 300 days of the 400-day mission passing before the halfway point. After this, backstory and characterisation are abandoned in favour of horror movie imagery, silly jump scares, and a litany of mismatched genre tropes.

The isolated setting and growing sense of mystery make 400 Days comparable to 10 Cloverfield Lane. While Osterman builds menace at least as effectively as the Cloverfield spinoff, developing the sinister suggestions of well-selected archive footage used in the opening credits, acting quality leaves a lot to be desired. Brandon Routh can be as wooden as his hair is stupidly perfect, and Tom Cavanagh’s villainous Zell is hopelessly affected.

The pace improves as the plot becomes more ridiculous, yet Osterman plunges his audience into a rabbit hole of uncertainty that he can’t recover from. The film fails, Coppola-like, to reach a satisfying conclusion, and is doomed to fade out to cries of frustration.

RATING: 2/5

INFORMATION

CAST: Brandon Routh, Dane Cook, Caity Lotz, Ben Feldman

DIRECTOR: Matt Osterman

WRITER: Matt Osterman

SYNOPSIS: With their four-hundred-day mission simulation nearing completion, four astronauts begin to feel that something is amiss.

The 99% Club: You’ll find it, way past 98% on the Tomatometer, but just before 100%. Inside, a coterie of cinema’s practically-finest, movies promising an experience beyond most others – movies that are almost perfect. These are the ones to warm hearts, stir the soul, call forth eruptions of laughter, and rattle your bones. To anyone who approaches to see and hear their stories, they will enthrall the audience…save the stray naysayer or two, of course.

Its members are fleeting; membership comes with no lifetime guarantee. Any additional Rotten reviews could toss the movie from the 99% Club and into the gutter that is a 98% score, to associate with the likes of Wizard of Oz and The Godfather.

You’ll notice most in the 99% Club are from this century. Movies may or may not be getting better, but they are getting reviewed more. When a work generates nearly 400 critics’ appraisals, its Tomatometer score can better endure Rotten reviews and sustain its 99% score. Classic films, by dint of having fewer reviews in written existence, can have their scores torpedoed by a single Rotten remark.

Maybe I'm just a sucker for terrible movies, I have watched many, but I feel that the 2 other reviews here are from viewers who hold on to a candle of a perfect movie within any given genre, and that anything that goes against that can only be considered a failure and a waste of time for all involved...

This is my first review, I don't have the writing skills that some reviewers have, but I do have an honest opinion...

Do not watch this movie unless you have, like me, exhausted almost all other options. Watch this movie if you have a few hours to kill, and you want to watch a good old fashioned B-movie. Yes the story is contrived and, yes, the characters are flawed, and HECK yes, the time-line and 3rd act make little to no sense. But I for one enjoyed it for what it sets out from the start to be. A poorly written, clichéd, homage to the B-movies of old.

If the previous reviewers really think that this movie was a total waste of everyones time, then I would like to see their fantastically scripted masterpieces.

Watch this film if you have hours to kill, you might find that you enjoy it in the same way that you enjoy a bacon sandwich, fleeting, momentary, and utterly forgettable.

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What movie was rated 99% by Rotten Tomatoes?

To date, Lady Bird has a 99% rating with 397 positive reviews and four negative reviews. Paddington 2 held a perfect rating from its release in 2017 until a film critic published a negative review in June 2021. To date, Paddington 2 has a 99% rating with 251 positive reviews and two negative reviews.

What was the point of 400 days movie?

So it's about a science experiment to investigate the effects of prolonged time of isolation of a group in tight space as preparation for space travel, where long periods of no contact with the outside world are expected. Exactly 400 days of said isolation.

Has any movie gotten a 100 on Rotten Tomatoes?

Leave No Trace (2018) It's not easy for recent movies to get a perfect Rotten Tomatoes rating, given the sizeable amount of reviews that are taken into account. That makes Leave No Trace's feat even more impressive. It's the movie with the most reviews featured (a total of 252) to get a 100% score.

Is 90% Rotten Tomatoes good?

A high rating on Rotten Tomatoes is good. The scores range from 0% to 100%, one hundred being the best and zero being the worst. If a movie's score is equal to or above 60%, the movie is considered “fresh”, while if it is below 60% it is considered “rotten”.