Black Flowers

Guide to those who choose to wade in - do not set your heart on a sophisticated, slick piece of Hollywood disaster-flare, nor on a deeply philosophical art house diatribe reflecting on our societal ills. This is low budget fare, unabashedly and to its core. More a buddy film / road trip set in after the apocalypse than anything else, this film isn't going to challenge your intellect or your adrenal glands. It is sweet, a little corny, and intermittently sticks it's tongue in its cheek often enough to keep things light. It ambles and rambles, but does manage to keep itself generally on course. One of those flicks that packs in a range of quirky characters and events, yet not too much of great consequence, but with enough of a glittery thread running through it to pull you through to its neatly woven end.

...definitely written by college sophomores! This movie had a lot of potential, and I can only give credit for great cinematography, all else is...sophomoric. I started watching it and realized, "Oh crap, it's gonna suck...", and it did, faithfully, but I watched it till the end to give it a fair review. Ah well, not everyone is meant to be a writer. But I need 600 characters to end this, so...boohoohoo. All I want is to have 600 characters so I can finish this. Stupidity states 600 min characters for a review when sometimes only less than 20 suffice. Oh please! This is worse than the movie! Must I go thru this twice? Come on man, 600 characters? Really? Who came up with this amount? Certainly not Roger Ebert.

Was the mother mentally ill? Some of the stuff she do and the way she act is child like. She would've been dead in the first day of the apocalypse. Who the heck would wear a big silver helmet, when they know people will happily kill you for your stuff? For some reason she thinks a hard hat is bullet proof.

This is a pretty run of the mill post apocalyptic movie, one that is actually better than many others, but that's not saying much considering how terrible the majority are.

The story is nonsense. An apocalyptic event happens and now it's a couple years later and a small family is struggling to survive while moving around, there is nothing remotely original about any of this. The father is a useless oaf who is already wounded when we're introduced to him, the daughter has no personality to speak of throughout the entire film, and the mother is one of the worst written, poorly acted, and most obnoxious characters I've seen in awhile. They meet a random "soldier" of some sort who is a complete piece of trash and they for some stupid reason take care of him and trust him in some hope of a bunker full of goods. That's from the movie synopsis mind you, the actual movie has nothing to do with it, you have no idea why they put up with this violent psychotic idiot.

The movie is filled with stupid decisions and absolutely horrible acting, the mother is the worst. She's the main focus of the movie but she is just plain unlikable and annoying and a terrible actress. The daughter and the "soldier" come in equally second as the worst and most annoying. They're all terrible. There is a little plot sequence involving a hippy commune that ties into the end of the film that isn't too terrible, but story and acting wise this movie sucked.

There was some competent broad shots and music scores here that were quite nice, it doesn't feel low budget for certain sequences, but this is not a good movie. Also much of the dialogue is clearly dubbed over the film because they were too cheap or incompetent and had to do it in post production. I wouldn't recommend spending money to watch this film and the woman who plays the mother is a horrible actress regardless of how poor the script was and would have been better without her.

I wish I knew where to start with this review, I guess it was when this 'film' finished and thank God it did, and I wish it had of been sooner rather than later, very poor and that's being kind. I like b movies, some of them are real gems, but this? No, just no, I'm giving it 2 stars because the actors took it seriously, even though the script is terrible and half of them cannot act, it's a D movie, just a tad over Asylum quality, it must have been a tax write off or something. Skip it, avoid, or watch it if you like a terrible film, terrible acting, and laughs at which you was not seriously supposed to laugh, be warned, you will not get this 1hr45min of your life back, and you will regret it, the only upside, it does have a few hot woman, other than that, nothing, just nothing, a solid 2/10 a number 2!, and that's only because I have to save 1 for Asylum films. I wish they had a 0/10, so I could rate this 1/10, but they don't.