Black Garden

4.5/10 🌠🌠🌠🌠🌌 This B&W independent film has a few key moments but they appear very lackluster due to the absence of any visual special effects and I mean any. No gun shots with exploding dye packs, No computer generated nuclear explosions, No car crashes or heavily choreographed fight scenes, They don't even go as far as someone being physically hit at all. They cut camera or it pans out to something far less interesting and once the altercations complete we get a gander of the aftermath. Outside of a muffled radio correspondence which makes no sense because it's being carried out by using a gigantic oldschool radio that's doubling as a walkie talkie. There's also a few scenes with billowing clouds of smoke in the background but that pretty much sums up the post production Sfx. My schedule was clear so I had an hour and half to burn but otherwise I wouldn't of made it through the entirety of this film. The acting is OK and the storyline of an apocalyptic era has been overly saturated to put it nicely but this scenario is still very interesting and appealing to our imagination when pondering on what if's. Ultimately I wouldn't recommend this feature but their still may be a small fraction of indie movie lovers who would enjoy "Black Garden"

Horrid, poor lighting, poor acting, poor plot. Normally if a movie is 6 or above on IMDB it's decent to watch. Not so for this one, this one is way overrated.

Please stop giving garbage like this high ratings. It's a ridiculous movie. There's no point to it. I got 45 minutes in and stopped with scene of the man talking nonsense to the woman. Silly stuff.

Not everyone will get the weight of this film, but it has that rare ability to stick with you, to shape your perception of your "reality" and leaves you feeling that you're already living in a post-apocalyptic state (especially in these strange times). Yes, it's low budget, but does not suffer because of this. The lonely figure with her radio wandering lost through empty spaces will always haunt with you. An underground success worthy of your time.

This is like many other bad movies, it has potential to be a good movie, but at no time do they seem to care about character or plot development.

It seems as if someone with a go pro just walked up to a complete stranger in a bar and asked them to write a movie, did everything in one take, and somehow got it in the system.

Furthermore, like many bad b movies, whoever did write it clearly had no ideas on how to end it. Nothing is worse than comming to the end of the movie and wonder what the heck was the writer thinking.

Unfortunately, If you think the movie might make a point or have a coherent end, or be cathartic in any way, you will be extremely disappointed.

Do yourself a HUGE favor and don't waste your time with this one.