Where can you watch the alternate ending? I wasn't aware there was one.

It was one of the special features on the DVD that I rented from Netflix.

@Tricklebrook said numerous boats of all Ives:

It was one of the special features on the DVD that I rented from Netflix.

How about sharing what it was, because the ending I just watched on Netflix really pissed me off!

They did find another survivor even if he was I'll. Chances are there might be other out there. I'd be trying to learn how to take a boat elsewhere. There must be numerous boats of all sizes to choose from. Or learn to fly a see plane.

lantzn--

Then you would still be pissed off by the alternate ending (as was I). It didn't really add anything to the story:

SPOILER!!!!!!!

In the original, earlier in the film, we see Jenai at the window, where she sees the flash of light, and then goes back to bed.

In the alternate ending, it simply shows us that the boyfriend was told about the light by Jenai.

It does so by having the boyfriend look at her corpse on the rocks after he has just taken her out of the water (no change there), but then there is a flashback scene where Jenai is at the hotel window, where she sees the flash of light; the boyfriend calls her back to bed (not shown in the original, where we just assume he is sleeping). In the flashback, Jenai asks him if he saw the flash of light. He says he didn't. She then climbs back into bed with him and the flashback closes.

That's it.

We are then back at Jenai's corpse. The boyfriend walks away, gets in the SUV, and drives aimlessly (as in the original).

Personally, I thought the couple were both idiots. The girl was a coward for ending her life, when, as the boyfriend said, "they had the whole world at their feet." They were both young and could have had many decades together.

And the boyfriend didn't take their survival situation seriously enough (as Jenai scolded him for at the supermarket). The girl wanted him to be a man and lead, but he wouldn't.

Together, they both could have found a way to survive, and maybe even taken out one of the motorized boats that surely were still in the ports and try to find others, as you suggested, lantzn.

I didn't really like those two at all.

@northcoast thanks for the altenate ending, wonder what that meant about it revealing he never saw the light.

Anyway, I agree with you on the couple, they were not very likeable. She had the right idea at one point about finding others but then kinda stopped. When you think you're alone but then find someone else, surely you'd continue looking for others like she was doing?

Things moved too quickly in the film. It would have been better to see this change over a longer period of time, certainly not weeks. There were supermarkets everywhere so food would last for a while, electricity never stopped and petrol wasn't a problem.

And philosophically...they barely spoke to each about anything. There was a hint of what could've been by the abandoned plane but that just seemed to fizzle out.

I liked the cinematography and score, but altogether this never really took off.