Anybody Else Notice it was daylight at midnight?

I think to nitpick or say the movie "dropped the ball" in reference to the apocolypse's cause is to be a bit unfair.

The movie isn't really about the end of the world. It's about how people who know they're going to die spend their last night alive. And how the humanity and and secrecy we develop throughout life is thrown out the window when you realize you're not going to live much longer.

Would all that that happened between Patrick and Sandra have happened had the world not been ending? No. Sandra would've thought about her husband and their child, and felt that it would be morally wrong to "try" to fall in love with someone else. Duncan might have been terrified of the kid with the gun. Craig would have never gotten his list done (as he said, he's never tried to live his fantasies, and he was surprised how easy it was. Most likely because those women might not have been as willing to give it up so quickly to a stranger who could have God-knows-what VD at this point).

I mean, the film is called "Last Night". It's not Armageddon. The point of the film isn't to make something huge and important about the world ending. It's about the simplicity of what people might do, and how better or worse off they might be if they would break down the walls of what is and isn't appropriate or what is or isn't moral and just did whatever they wanted, without consequence. Atleast that's how I see it.

The science isn't important. How the world ends or why isn't important. For all we know, aliens had come to earth and dropped a gigantic nuclear bomb on Uzbekistan and said "you people will die in 6 months". Who knows? Who cares? It's not about the end of the world. It's not about asteroids and explosions. It's just about people. Learn to love the simplicity.

"Is this a joke? Because if it is, it's both funny and well-executed."

At one point the whole screen is filled with a huge "sun" that we can all assume is the meteor that is very soon crashing down on earth. There aren't a lot of things that can cause doomsday that we will know the excact minute of months in advance. A meteor is obviously one of them.

If a huge, flaming meteor is crashing into the earth, it will light up the sky for weeks before it actually crashes. I don't get how this is not -flaming- obvious? Even if the film (correctly so) doesn't care at all about how the earth is ending. It doesn't matter at all. They still explain it very well with subtle hints all the way.