They had to be trying to make this so bad. From the ridiculous plot and characters, to the extras standing around playing cards in the background of fights scenes (okay, I took some liberties there, but not by much), to the well below average special effects, and the inane action sequences this is just horrible.
Is it so horrible it's good? I guess that is up to taste.
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It may well be the worst I've seen. I take these "Made for Sci-Fi Channel" movies with a grain of salt, but this was unwatchable. I finally turned it off after 25 min.
For example...When they decide leave the bunker and thee lead female challenges, and then beats up the older man in the bunker, I almost changed channels then....but sadly I waited.
Ten years underground and the lead female has perfect hair and make-up. We saw their food rationing room; I guess they stocked up on a decades worth of mascara and lip gloss too.
Then outside the bunker, I don't know where to begin...awful.
I set the bar pretty low for Sci-Fi movies and I have come to expect garbage, but this was completely juvenile. Do not waste your time watching it.
What the hell happened at one scene, the mutants were attacking the silo/bunker and then the survivors are suddenly at the western town. How'd they get there? Was stuff cut or was this just terribly made?
Why was the bunker so easy for the mutants to get into?
Why did the mutant king spare the one girl?
Lead brunette girl was all crying about the Preacher woman she'd known for 10 minutes, but expressed no feelings about the two people the townie mutants kill before her. And was reluctant to kill people who'd go back to being human in the daylight despite them killing her people, and despite being able to slit her friend's throat earlier.
Then after she dies, she adopts her Preacher persona, even taking her clothes? WHAT THE FUDGE? She's the reason Preacher died, because she wouldn't kill her mutant ex.
I agree with your three questions about plot sequences and missing scenes. I would like to give the producers the benefit of the doubt but the bunker attack scene almost looked like an afterthought done on no budget. The give away was the weapons involved. Most of the movie had combat weapons but the silo/attack scene had one shotgun and a phoney, I mean really phoney like a toy, lever action rifle. There was also no indication of how the survivors got to the town(shown as at least one if not two day drive)to join up with their depleted scout group.
The bunker should not have been that easy for the mutants to break into and since the survivors were aware of the threat, why didn't they manually block the entrance instead of wait in a terrible tactical position to be overrun?
"Lead brunette girl", AKA Holly Deveaux, I thought did a great job of acting and made the movie worthwhile. Remember, an actor does what the director tells them to do. How well they do it is the reflecttion on the actor not what they are doing. Why people react different ways to different situations is a long story. I can personnally attest that in high stress situations, humans beings can observe/do some really horrendous situations seemingly without reacton and be outwardly devastated by something really insignificant.
I too, was disappointed that the director had Melissa go 'full preacher' after Sadie's death. I figured she would just put the white collar on her camo in memory of her friend. She did look hot in the full preacher outfit though but then so did Ashanti.
Basically, I liked the movie in spite of all the errors and inconsistancies. The actors did a great job with what they were given and were worthy of a better movie.
I just don't understand why you would waste money to make a movie this bad. Oh well, nice to see the consensus is the movie was horrible.
shareYeah, the movie definitely jumped around a lot. I'm confused as to how much of a threat the townies were - the humans seemed to just walk around freely. That whole battle scene was confusing - were the townies fighting the full blown mutants? The mutant king was nice to the girl, then he got attacked by...who? Was it humans or townies? He went down so easy too. The silo managed to survive for 10 years and then just like that the mutants broke in and the humans had 2 guns to fight them? And Kim Coates was alive the whole time? The movie they played last week, Disaster LA, was better.
shareTwo hours of my life I won't get back. I don't expect much from SyFy originals but this was all on the writers. So many plot holes it seems written by the loser of a writing contest in a middle school creative writing class.
It's not very good, but it can't be the worst movie ever made. For one thing, it doesn't have Adam Sandler in it.
shareGawd there is always one.
This is quite clearly, guaranteed, 100% and obviously not the worst movie ever.
It is below average though lol.
I have the impression that the Mutant King didn't attack the girl because either he is her Dad or he knew her since she was a little girl (like an uncle, family friend, or neighbour), something like that but I was surprised they retained so much humanity. I can't be bothered to re-watch this movie to see if I'm correct. XD
The main brunette girl multiple singing sessions are the worst thing of this movie. I also predicted to my husband that after she met up with Ashanti, they gonna sing together and I was right. So laughable.
Very sad that Kim Coates was barely in it. :( He is the best thing in this movie.
The mutants attacking the bunker was very badly done, people literally stood behind watching 2 people getting slaughtered. WTF.
Very very poor CGI. But I can look past this.
I cannot watch the main brunette, she always has to look "perfect" in every scene, perfectly curled hair and make-up. Her teammates wearing camo outfit but she look like a tourist in Paris or something.
I am a huge fan of Heartland, so I basically only watched this movie because Amber Marshall was in it; however, she was only in it for a short amount of time and even her participation couldn't save this disaster.
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I switched on it for i think five minutes to see something like this:
Bunker doors open
Group of young actors step out wearing pristine military gear, one actor says some dumb exposition like "been down there ten years, would rather die than spend another day down there"
all proceed to speak perfect cliche military lingo to some old guy father figure "ten-four we got a fox-trot code 9"(something the old guy taught them?), something really stupid about implausible & impracticable solar panels happens,
A military vehicle appears out of nowhere and apparently "purrs like a kitten" somehow after 10 years of presumably being totally inactive.
They drive up to a house, guy checks radiation levels or something dumb, something with two arms and walking on two legs opens a door and makes a noise, everyone starts uncontrolled firing at it for absolutely no reason(something the old guy taught them?). Another obvious human pops around a corner and they also shoot it for no reason.
"what is this?" looks down at obvious human body "SOME KINDA WERID ANIMAL OR SOMETHING" touches it, shows man with green face paint, "raaar" opens eyes with terrible CGI effect.
that's when I changed the channel. My brain couldn't take anymore. I feel bad for anyone who continued to watch it.
How do movies like this get made? How do you get a budget to make a first draft script made into a movie? I've literally read better scripts online that will never be made into a film.
I can see this being on an 8 movie pack in a wall-mart 5$ garbage bin, but how the hell did it make it to an actual movie channel on satellite television? Mind boggling. It literally made me mad.
I'm a firm believer in watching a film all the way through otherwise you're in no position to criticize and I stand by that. However your description there was dead accurate and it simply didn't get any better. Disastrous mess of a film with unintentionally laughable moment after unintentionally laughable moment.
How Coates got roped into this I'd love to know.
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