How It Ends is a 2018 American action thriller film directed by David M. Rosenthal and written by Brooks McLaren.

The film stars Theo James, Forest Whitaker, Grace Dove, Nicole Ari Parker, Kat Graham, and Mark O'Brien.

He flies from Seattle to visit her parents in Chicago, intending to ask her father Tom for permission to marry Sam.

That night, they are pulled over by a police car, but the driver is an escaped inmate from the local maximum security prison, armed with a shotgun.

He strikes a deal with them, taking their four wheel drive vehicle in exchange for them staying at his father's well-stocked house until they are ready to go north, where the situation is supposedly better.

The mystery thickens as Will notices dead victims buried in their cars under a thick layer of ash.

Convinced the disaster is not natural but the result of an elaborate attack, Jeremiah reveals a deep paranoia.

Soon after, a volcanic eruption triggers a massive burst of fire, ash and shockwaves, causing a pyroclastic flow.

Will and Sam speed away from the all-engulfing cloud, barely staying ahead of it but managing to out-distance it as it subsides.

[11] Metacritic gives the film a weighted average score of 36 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".