Last week, our young adult sons were home for a Staycation, after our
camping plans got rained out. We had lots of fun and enjoyed several
good movies! It's hard to choose a movie to appeal to all four of us,
but the first one we chose was Extinction, a new Netflix original movie that we all enjoyed.
The
movie begins with a man named Peter, played by Michael Peña,
experiencing nightmares. In the dreams, he sees some sort of invasion
from the sky, violence in the streets, and menacing figures attacking
people. We see Peter go to work and interact with his wife, Alice,
played by Lizzy Caplan, and their daughters, Lucy and Hannah. They seem
like a nice family, and Peter seems like a good dad, though he is
tortured by these nightmares that feel real and are becoming more
intense and frequent. He comes to believe that they are premonitions, so
he goes through the motions at work and at home, until his dreams begin
to come true one night.
That's as far as I'm going
with a plot description because the real excitement of this movie is its
many unexpected twists and turns. There is some family drama, as Peter
and his wife, Alice, argue about him working long hours and seeming
distant, but there is a sense of dread imbued in the first part of the
movie, thanks to Peter's increasingly disturbing nightmares. The rest of
the movie is filled with action and suspense, like any disaster
thriller, but also plenty of surprises. We all enjoyed it, and even my
son and husband - who both always (annoyingly) correctly predict what's
coming in suspense movies - were surprised by some of the twists in
this one.
Extinction is showing exclusively on Netflix.
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