The main idea behind Los últimos días, the latest offering from directing/screenwriting brothers David and Àlex Pastor, is far from original. The basic plot - a mysterious and deadly epidemic that creates mass panic and, ultimately, complete social chaos - shares more than a passing likeness with M. Night Shyamalan's 2008 movie The Happening, as well as I am Legend and Danny Boyle's brilliant 2002 release, 28 Days Later. Despite clear parallels with its predecessors, however, Los últimos días is no less worthy in its depiction of all-out human catastrophe. Indeed, it goes one step further, attempting a social critique similar to Blindness, the 2008 movie based on José Saramago's novel of … [Read more...] about The apocalypse comes to Barcelona