Die Kommenden Tage (Lars Kraume, 2010)

The near future: the European Union has disintegrated and a wall has been erected across the Alps to keep out a tide of African immigrants, in the wake of an oil-sparked war in the Middle East. Meanwhile, on the domestic front, a group of international terrorists launches attacks to disrupt the Internet and cast the Government as a villain.
One would guess the idea was to produce a feasible dystopia, extrapolatable from the state of the world as it is now, along the lines of Children of Men. The director must certainly have talked a good game to get some solid actors onboard, including the omnipresent Daniel Brühl. The budget is a fraction of that of Alfonso Cuarón's overblown and singular monster, but that should be irrelevant when ideas rather than FX are the capital. Unfortunately, The Coming Days fails on almost every front that counts. The entourage of self-involved young Berliners is unlikable without exception, the geopolitical scenario criminally infantile and the story arc not only lifelessly flat but riven with illogicalities. It ill behoves a film so uninspired to harbour any pretensions of importance, and yet it does.

3/10