Aftermath

The poster to the movie was far cooler than the movie itself.

It feels like the filmmakers allowed their love of Zombie films to influence the movie they made. The plot is about a nuclear holocaust that seem to come out of nowhere hitting on American soil and focuses on a handful of people who are dealing with the whole thing.

The cast of characters are all locked in a seller waiting for the radiation to clear up enough for them to surface. Like most small movies of it's caliber, the movie focuses mostly on the inner turmoil between the characters, who I did not find that interesting. This small crew also had to deal with others from the outside who minds have been altered do to what's happening on the surface.

Not much to the story but it did not need to be, but I my interest in the characters was lacking.

Reasonable film. Good lead, but dear god Edward Furlong muzr have hated someone to act that badly.

You can only act that badly, dekiberately

"Aftermath" cannot really stand up to films like The Day After or Threads, nor books like Alas Babylon or On The Beach or One Minute After, but it does alright. The movie's success is to serve as a warning to avoid nuclear war. I wasn't going to comment until I saw a 1/10 review grumping about smoking around a pregnant woman; was the commenter oblivious to the ionizing radiation permeating the countryside? If it ever comes to this, pray you go out in a blazing flash. Misery awaits those who survive the initial exchange. 6/10

I am usually one who will see a flood of 1/10 stars, then a few 10/10s and typically believe the 1/10s are being more honest...but in this occasion, I have no clue what anyone who hates this film was thinking!

As someone who grew up with a, "prepper" Father (he even had a small cinderblock fall out shelter in our basement) I feel like I've alwats had a better idea than the average person on what would happen in the event of a nuclear attack, and how to handle it (the best we can...)

That said, this movie hits pretty much all the DOs and DONTs of what would be expected by people with a little knowledge, while of course keeping it a fictional, entertaining film at the same time...there is a balance that must be walked between a fun film, and reality...this film did it very well. So all those talking about the film or bashing its realism ..read a book. Those saying how it's too depressing...are you not aware a Nuclear holocaust is basically as close to "THE END" as we will likely ever get!?!?

So the review of the film itself as a film...it was very enjoyable!

Pacing It starts off immediately, infact it starts so fast that one of the few areas I could see someone be turned off by is he never really get to KNOW most of the people...but they do give us just enough info to care...I felt. And I'll take that trade off for no 30 minute boring build up! So for pacing I give it 9/10

Acting Like any low budget, the acting will never be A+ but it was more than passable, I very rarely had any frustrating moments with the cast 7/10

Story This is where it really shines, the story was very believable in my opinion. From the blindness of the flash, to the radiation sickness... to food and water being accounted for, lights, bathroom etc. all is accounted for which was impressive. Nothing was cheesy, nothing was over the top. However, keep in mind - this is NOT a "popcorn flick" or a date movie. Be prepared for depressive vibes. 10/10

If you're into end of the world types, or people holed up in a small space, or survival types (without all the corny battles, and zombies, etc. then I say give this a shot!! I honestly don't see how anyone can rate this BELOW a 6...

OK, so here goes, my first review. I could have chosen a thousand better movies to review, so why this one? Well, as an apocalyptic movie goes, this is the second most depressing film about nuclear war that I have ever seen. The first being an animated film (yes I know how that sounds!), When the wind blows by Raymond Briggs (the guy who wrote The Snowman), It's one of the saddest films I have ever seen. Anyhoo back to The Aftermath, some scenes are pretty far fetched. There is no real explanation as to why events take place. The characters are not fully developed and a ton of other minor foibles, but that being said, this is a film that makes you think, what would you do?. Would you try and battle through?, would you resign yourself to the inevitable? or would you curl up and die? Pretty depressing stuff all in all, but in this climate, in which we are destroying ourselves by the minute, it is an all too realistic scenario. Unfortunately.