Survival Earth

This apocalyptic story is indeed a story, and indeed has "credible characters in incredible circumstances", so that alienates the usual meth and crack head viewers who get angry about credibility.

The scenery is every day, the characters are not always particularly likable, but they are believable and three dimensional.

This is very low budget, and that's good. The worst movies are those that waste big budgets on depressing and stupid stories.

Now, it isn't a perfect story. It begins well enough, like a stage play with three characters who have to fend off modern day vandals in the woods. Two are a sort of hippie couple, and the third is a military man.

The relationship between the three is very mature, much more so than the usual apocalyptic tale. Their focus is on survival and working together.

However, the "incredible circumstance" of the hippie guy being cloned by a scientist father is a bit far out, but considering it is the one variable that is far out, we can buy into it.

And the clone becomes the climactic point of the story. This has a Twilight Zone feel to it, and in a good way.

This is a good story, with realistic characters, and like all great films, works just as well as a stage play, and is good inspiration for children pretending to be something else. It's a bit of a hidden gem.