After the End

I love post-apocalyptic dramas, so I tend to give less-critical reviews of films in this genre.

Unfortunately, I can't do that with this film. It has very good potential, but the script and editing are dreadful. The story has incoherent scenes and sequences, along with implausible plot lines. It feels amateurish. There is some decent acting, and some of the cinematography is very good.

It's a low budget movie, and understandably, that makes it hard to do everything necessary to make a quality film. The script and the editing are usually the things that can be salvaged on a low budget, but wasn't done here.

What we're left with is a good potential story that is badly told, not so much by the actors, but by the director and editor.

This late Sunday night, I chose this movie due to being a post-apoc fanatic. For a low budget, film, I enjoyed it more than most of the Prime movies I've seen over the years. After a long and slow start, I was HOOKED once the plot shift occured. Instead of having all my questions answered, I feel the director did a SUPERB job of controlling the flow of the story, leaving PLENTY of room for prequels and sequels if desired. I don't want to sound bias at all, but with the lack of over the top special effects, I am very satisfied with my choice, and highly recommend if you like great finales.

This is a gem that deserves it's place among movie lovers' "I've Seen That" list.

Yeah this was a weird one - started off very slow, snails pace would be unfair to a snail. The acting wasn't perfectly natural but the lead didn't have much to work with so did his best (perhaps when rocking out to a song they've got license to, he could've listened to it a little more). The other actors look the part, except for the one playing the mother, who's not a natural motherly actor so I'm not sure why the gender swap.

The film rushes it's last act, and as the below interviewer pointed out, the chase at the end is patently absurd and unbelievable. At times things just happened to keep the script moving.

The film did look beautiful though - would've worked better as a nature doco.

The filmmakers cared a lot about how things looked - both in terms of cinematography and two main actors. Unfortunately, they cared about visuals much more than they cared about the script, which is riddled with contrivance and occasionally outright nonsense.

Survival teen is smart/informed enough to subsist on his own but is apparently blind because he can't see he's riding his bike into a 20-foot-diameter pit. The plausibility of his actions just decline from there.

Bad guys show up and end up magically tracking down survival guy and his new friend who are riding away on bikes for days while bad guys meander at a snail's pace through the countryside. It's absurd.

I won't, uh, "spoil" the ending, but after a *very* briefly promising twist, the resolution is just patently stupid/unbelievable.

I normally read reviews before taking a chance on stuff like this, but for various reasons, I skipped the reviews this time. Lesson learned.

The main lead is young and very inexperienced. The other characters are convincingly experienced and the characters fairly well-developed. The story-line is decent. It's basically a slice-of-life Post Apocalyptic film. There is some violence and one would wish there wasn't in such a situation. But human nature, insanity and selfishness has gotten us where we are... and look at this mess of a world we live in.

Fairly convincing, a simple story but complete and well-rounded. The one major flaw of the film (and pointed out by so many here) is three not-so-fit rednecks managing to keep up with and track two much younger and fit people riding bicycles on asphalt. That's just goofy. How did that absurd plot line make it all the way through the writers, directors and production team without someone saying, "Hey, wait a second."

Add to that the cliche "PA violent redneck" theme that's been done to death in such films... and as realistic as such scenario might be, one could wish they'd have come up with something more original and believable.