Monsieur Flynn’s review published on Letterboxd:
#29 movie Around the World in 80 Movies - Canada
I'm not sure whether it was expectations backfiring (as they so often do) because of its reputation, or maybe it was the potential of the premise; but somewhere along the way this movie promised a lot more than it actually delivered. Of course, it could quite simply be that I hoped for more Sarah Polley, being a huge fan of hers and all....
An understated low budget and low key take on the end of the world, and it's got quite a few things going for it, quite a few ideas I liked, and so on, but the overall end result sadly wasn't quite all that in my book. One of those movies I on some levels wish I liked more than I ended up doing, if for nothing else so for the creativity and vision. I guess I just feel like a good producer should have had leading-writing-director Don McKellar dig a little deeper and gain some more focus, depth and completeness for his envisioned work. Some of it feels underdeveloped, whilst other parts get more runtime than it can defend based on both the journey and the destination.
For more Canadiana you might wanna check out Jonathan's list.
Rewatch-probability: 2/5
(Doesn't feel likely just now, but then again the world just ended...)