‘The End We Start From’ review: Jodie Comer sizzles in familiar survival movie
nypost.comJodie Comer bulldozed through Broadway with her Tony Award-winning turn in the play “Prima Facie” as a lawyer whose life is thrown into chaos.Now, the brilliant “Killing Eve” actress is back with the survival movie “The End We Start From,” which premiered Saturday at the Toronto International Film Festival, and again her strong-willed character has her entire existence dramatically called into question.
Running time: 96 minutes. Not yet rated. In theaters Dec. 8.Comer is just as propulsive and magnetic as she was onstage — albeit in a much less explosive story — only this role’s personal disaster is also a natural one.
Like an indie “The Day After Tomorrow,” Great Britain begins to mysteriously flood in “The End We Start From” which is based on Megan Hunter’s novel, and drives hoards of panicked people out of waterlogged London to the north where it’s drier.Woman (Comer) — we never learn her name — is pregnant and gives birth as the torrent rages outside.
In order to survive, she, her partner (Joel Fry) and new baby boy Zeb must flee to his parents’ home in the country. That’s when things turn bleak.
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