There's something very powerful about this movie. It's very nihilistic. Human emotion and survival instinct when everything else is stripped away. Selfishness, and coldness. Mass hysteria and panic. These are all conveyed and add to the off-putting, terror filled mood. Jarnatt draws us into his desolate world and you really feel as if missiles are coming your way. It's very minimalistic in its scope, but the screenplay is superb and the mood more than makes up for this.

I had no idea what to expect with this one, and it has such an amazing switch from romantic movie to.. something much darker.. that I can't help but grin. It's all terribly 80's, but it only adds to the slightly surreal experience.

If you remember the nuclear paranoia of the 1980's, this film will bring it all back for you. It gets you fairly early with one of the worst scenarios imaginable, and then twists the knife over and over again with the following hour of hopes and false hopes, reunions and losses, narrow escapes, horrible deaths, grueling tension, and an almost intolerable amount of dawdling. Sound like fun? Then Miracle Mile is for you!!!

Well-made, scary little movie

while I admit it's been awhile since I've seen this, I was very intrigued at the time

Could be super-intense and engaging but falls into bouts of dark comedy weirdness. Great premise though which makes up for the occasional lapses in logic. Highly recommended if you enjoyed Scorsese's "After Hours", which, alongside "Miracle Mile", has the distinction of being the worst date movie ever.

Small-scale (human-scale) apocalyptic thriller. (You have an hour and ten minutes until the strike. What do you do?) Coincidence continues to play a large role thereafter -- a too-large role -- and a vein of quirky humor somewhat deflates the tension. But the finale concentrates on pumping up that tension, and the movie overall has both a broadness of vision (all of evolution) and a closeness (a couple of star-crossed lovers).