I attended the premiere with moderate expectations as I knew the movie was a low-budget indie, but my hopes were high. Joy and the Apocalypse exceeded my wildest dreams in delivering an awesomely stellar impact. It's two lead actors, Vanessa Leigh and Reza Breakstone, were both superb and showed talent and depth of character and played the characters so believably and delightfully that I wanted more of them when the movie ended, thus hopes for a sequel starring these two are truly in my heart. The cinematography was superb. The music score was a sensational compliment as well, and was a major part of the total success of this film, and exposes a great new musician further to all of us. Further, the story itself was superbly written and left me wanting more throughout, until the surprise ending that was exactly what I was looking for - an answer to the delightful earlier unique and enigmatic tale of "Joy and the Apocalypse". I was initially and weeks after still am blown away by the AWESOME delivery this movie had in total, and my sincere reaction was – given their resources – that the two Director-Producer team of Dan Black and Ryan Convery were clearly almost magical in their ability to creatively produce, direct, and craft a product of such total quality and substance within their resources. I can only imagine the genius they will deliver on screen as they evolve into big budget movies, which, given their absolutely delightful delivery – they are clearly qualified to do. Respectfully - Spielberg look out!
