My review was written in March 1990 after watching the film on Paramount/Prism video cassette.
"Aftershock" takes a different look at the "Mad Max" genre in the form of alien interference after mankind suffers a nuclear holocaust. It's an okay direct-to-video picture.
Elizabeth Kaitan plays the beautiful alien who pops up on Earth and is immediately hunted down by the militaristic forces ruling following WW III. She's befriended by rebels Jay Roberts Junior and Christopher Mitchum, and manages to keep just one step ahead of pursuing baddies John Saxon and Richard Lynch.
She's here, oddly enough, to get advice from humanity on maintaining the peace based on pre-nuclear war monitoring of Earth activities. Instead, she arrives too late for both cultures' sake.
It's an interesting departure for Kaitan, who's usually merely decorative. Roberts makes a handsome hero.
Film gets overly cornball in the final reel, especially when Mitchum whips out a copy of the Constitution of the U. S., presented as a guideline to save our society and that of the aliens. America may be offering some inspiration in this era of emerging democracies, but to set the standard for the rest of the universe is a bit much, even for sci-fi fans.
