The Domestics

I don't know anything about the director Mike P. Nelson except that he was clearly inspired by movies that I loved when I was young. There is no doubt in my mind that he was inspired by The Warriors (1979) from Walter Hill and by Mad Max (1979) from George Miller. By The Warriors for the narrating radio voice that warns about the different gangs operating in different sectors, and by Mad Max for the apocalyptic view of the world and the customized vehicles. I couldn't stop thinking about that while watching the movie and apparently I'm not the only one since I read another review thinking the same. I loved The Warriors, and I still do after all those years, so to me it was easy to like The Domestics, because in a way it brought back those memories. But The Domestics was just inspired by it, for the rest it's a totally different movie and story. I can get that people don't like it. Those people would probably not like The Warriors and Mad Max either. But if you did like those I'm sure you will like this one as well. The acting was certainly not bad for a so-called B-movie. I'm aware that the story doesn't make much logic sometimes but I was not expecting that either with this kind of post-apocalytic story. I's just a bit of easy entertainment, the kind I like everynow and then.

So people kept telling me that this was The Purge meets Mad Max. I can't really say i'm a fan of The purge, but however i very much adore Mad Max and post-apocalyptic themes.

This movie was pretty damned fun to watch, they established all the different crazy factions out there and it weirdly enough fits together.

I dunno if i'm biased but to me this movie was a good time. Don't overthink it, just enjoy the damned ride.

7/10

Overall this was a very solid story that held some nice emotional depth between the main couple surviving the insanity with some fantastic action packed thrills , and truly awesome post apocalyptic atmosphere that was shot brilliantly. I definitely recommend this and predict it will become a realistic foretelling post apocalyptic cult classic. I loved that it was set in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin.

This post apocalypse movie is good one. It has that right amount of thrill at right moments. You will feel like you have seen movies like it but trust me it is a good and fresh movie surely. A good watch for thriller fans.

Really liked this film...just because its not a major movie dosnt make it bad ....I have found many independant movies much better than the drivel put out by big name studios. Has a good plot...although its never revealed why the goverment killed off 97% of population....hey! maybe they finally found a way to alleviate the traffic problem in L.A.