The fine acting by the capable cast holds this movie together: Edward Furlong as hotheaded redneck Brad, Monica Keena as the feisty Elizabeth, C.J. Christian McDonald's grim script pulls zero punches concerning the harsh subject matter it's genuinely upsetting to watch these poor folks turn on each other and slowly succumb to radiation sickness. Director Peter Engert relates the darkly compelling story at a constant pace, ably crafts an unflinchingly bleak and depressing tone as well as evokes a strong feeling of overwhelming anguish, despair, and hopelessness, and wrings plenty of suffocating tension from the cramped and claustrophobic basement setting. Reviewed by Woodyanders 8 / 10 Gloomy end of the world filmĪ motley assortment of desperate people are forced to seek shelter in a farmhouse cellar in the devastating wake of a nuclear holocaust. Most likely it would be uninfected people out to scrounge food, of which only sealed goods are safe after you wipe off any exterior fallout, but that makes a boring film, like that Viggo Mortensen thing everyone seemed to love. The very idea that infected people are out marauding around is something to spur slumping gun sales, but not a likely scenario. It also makes people lethargic as you feel sick. Radiation sickness first effects the digestive system. We didn't get any idea how long they were exposed to that level. The rate of 4 Rem/hr will give radiation sickness to most people after a day or two of exposure and kill half the people exposed after 4-5 days. That appears to have been added for effect. The dose rate meter shown typically doesn't click. A makeshift fallout shelter is great, but unless you have a filtered air system, you only have half the problem licked. They don't have many warheads and certainly don't have the capability to reach the US so they had to come from either the Soviets or China, most likely the Soviets, but there is no reason given or why NORAD failed to protect and warn us. The war started when Pakistan launched nukes against Israel and India. They eventually find refuge in a basement to the dismay of Brad (Edward Furlong) who supplies us with internal conflict until the wanting, looting neighbors show up. They steal a vehicle, loot a store and seek shelter in rural Oklahoma/Texas, a place that has far more many guns than basements. He meets and woman and a young boy along the road. Thomason ) a young doctor who knows something about what to do when the big ones start falling. Reviewed by nogodnomasters 7 / 10 IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?
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