Road Wars

B-movie? Try D. This flick is cheap, lower than low budget with serious issues with scenography (brand new trucks against supposedly post- apoc buildings), costumography (neatly trimmed, fresh looking actors in supposedly post-apoc world).

However, despite bad acting the movie has some good points. No CGI, all is done with cool MadMax-esque vehicles. Attempt at Aussie accents is also sort of a bonus (for being an homage) if not a slight comic relief.

The best in this movie is the story. It doesn't have a beginning. Audience is waking up into a nightmare (just as main character does). It doesn't have an ending either. What kind of ending is there after the end of the world? In between the moment lights come in and lights come out, we see an authentic, believable story about survivors. they have hopes, doubts, they have issues, they love beyond death, they are just trying to do their best to survive. I the end, they are defeated. Again, by love...

Obvious attempt to cash in on Fury Road, and it's from Asylum, so you know to go in with low expectations. But, I'm a fiend for post-apocalypse road war stuff, so I had to give it a chance. And... it was okay. It benefited from low expectations.

The cars are at least good enough to have maybe passed for extras in some of Fury Road's crowd scenes, so there's that. Unfortunately, they don't really get to do much. There's only one real chase scene and it's brief and doesn't entail much except driving around, with no real stunt work. The cover shows lots of vehicles and explosions. You get about five or six cars, and no explosions. As for the driving scenes, director's never going to be confused with George Miller.

Plot-wise it's Mad Max cross-pollinated with I Am Legend. Society's broken down and the few survivors and scavenging for everything. Gasoline seems to be more plentiful than water, though, since petrol's the one thing they don't seem to fret about much. A lot of people have become victims of a "vampire virus" and, since they luckily have a biochemist on their team, they're trying to work on a cure. One guy who may be immune shows up; the filmmakers are so desperate to make him seem like Mad Max that he has an Aussie accent, and they even have him wearing a black leather jacket with one shoulderpad.

Their big problem is they're running out of ammunition to fight off the nightly attacks from vampires, and to look for more they'd have to leave the only known source of water. Mostly they sit around talking about this, when you'd rather they were driving. It's not really that difficult to make one of these movies more satisfying -- just get decent-looking cars (which they did) and show them driving around a lot (which they didn't).

So, it's not very good, but it's still better than most of the Italian Road Warrior ripoffs that swarmed the video stores back in the days of VHS, so, I cut it some slack. Production values aren't bad, the survivors looked suitably skangy, and the acting's not great but isn't painful, either. And the plot's not compelling, but there is one and it's not overly clumsy. It's an okay way to kill 90 minutes as long as you're not expecting too much. Better than most Asylum films, but that's damning with faint praise.

Slow, boring, stupid. I understand the filmmakers didn't have a huge budget to work with, but they could still come with something better than this. Yeah, it's a Mad Max ripoff, but there has been a bunch of those, and at least some of them are entertaining! This one has nothing going for it, with the exception maybe of the cars, which look nice (the "hero" car is horrible, though), but what's the point of a Mad Max clone where NONE of the cars get trashed? There are no car stunts, either!

Guys, those cars were supposed to be ruins on themselves, don't tell me you couldn't destroy at least one or two for your "epic" movie! I guess the cars were rented from real-life fans who built their own "Fury Road"-like vehicles, since most of them have working tail-lights (a necessity when you are driving through the wasteland, I suppose) which suggest that the cars were street-legit, which wouldn't make sense for this kind of vehicles.

I have seen other Asylum titles just for the fun of watching an unintentional bad movie. This one is just bad, not funny. Avoid like the plague. If you really want to see a Mad Max movie, grab the old ones or go see Fury Road.

yes I watched this last night , found an online copy. it wants to be mad max 2/road warrior meets resident evil. this is just my op. ... it fails miserably on both accounts. weak soundtrack, weak hook... by hook i mean, in the first five minutes a movie -or book- should hook the reader/viewer, so they want to continue. my ratings hinge on re-watchability... i had to fast forward through most of the movie-- weak acting-- weak dialogue-- weak story line-- the movie quality is good, the filming. but everything else is "b" movie grade. the cars , the acting etc.

I wish i hadn't watched it in the first place, if fast forwarding is even watching. It will not be re-watched. there is a lot of sitting in the desert, driving in the desert. pointless dialogue and stuff that doesn't make sense.

I have no doubt that someone will say "this movie is epic", well, to that , i say ... every turd has its punchbowl. hey , i am gonna use that in my thread from the sandbox message board entitled "the poop group". check it out.

comment , bring all your poop slinging to my poop group in the sandbox message board I thought you said you weren't insane anymore?

HEY EVERYBODY ITS ME (4) and today we review " upset dax: furry choad" ...the movie !!!!!!!!!

SO here we have yet another "asylum" production ripping off a block buster movie ...obviously "mad max: fury road" that came out around the same time ..... instead of "war boys" we have "zombies" .... and instead of "mad max" we have "steve" from accounting .... you know some random forgettable looking average joe looking guy with an aussie accent and a halloween try hard mad max costume on .... THEN we have the furiosa chick for the movie ? ...the "side chick" if you will being almost the main character ALSO in this film as she is looking for a cure for her man and yadda yadda ........totally different story line form mad max though .... but visuals are very close BUT as with 99% of ALL end of the world films .... it always turns out like that ......you get either mad max look, or cyber punk look ....thats our only 2 choices .... WHY ?!?!?!?!?

Its a competently made film over all ..... usually the asylum films are though ...they get a lot of crap thrown their way for ripping off the block buster films BUT they do a decent job most of the time now ...in the beginning ...meh not so much BUT NOW days ....yea ....they do pretty good ...

story was mid level, nothing to great , the standard "search quest" deal,.... with the gasp "twist" ending you knew was coming from a mile away ... though ... the way the "heros " handled it was kind of stupid .....i mean ... when facing end of your species , and you find a cure, BUT it has ONE ...only ONE set back and really that set back isnt that bad .... i man the cure leaves you pretty much fine with a livable normal life .... but instead of accepting that they get all NO WE MUST BE PURE AND "NORMAL" AND AAAHHHHHHHHHHH KILL KILL KILL!!!!!! Like dude calm your milkers sir .....your fine ....they are fine ...everyone could literally BE FINE but instead you think one tiny thing ....and its the end of the world .....again ...... news flash its already over ...theres like 200 people left max and you can change it all back ....BUT NOOOOOO you want to be a jerkoff last second because ???? Writers block on how to end the film is my assumption .... didnt have a "good way to end it soooooo we get that

couple of major issues here that could have easily been fixed to make it a solid film:

#1. Should have NOT had an aussie for the lead male hero role ..... i mean ...end of the world movies already have to be compared to mad max literally every step of the way so why make it even easier ??? Doing this would have made it stand alone as its own film - however i know then it would NOT have cash grabbed the mad max train and that was the sole purpose of this mockbuster .....so i get it .... but a man can dream cant he ....

#2 the TERRIBLE SOUND TRACK .... jesus christ REALLY ? .... some ... pulp fiction would be sounding garbage ? ... ugh ......nothing says serious zombie end of the world movie like bad surfer music .....

# 3 .... at about 56 mins in ... the black dudes eyes .... LOL ... did no one think to do a reshoot for that one scene ? ... no one .. on the entire crew ....did ANYONE watch the dailies ??? Someone notice he shut his eyes on his own ? ... no one AT ALL ?!?!?!?!? Okay ... apparently an entire crew of blind people shot this film ..so actually now that i think about it ..im impressed how well this came out ....

other wise ....IF you do NOT think of it as a bad mad max parody .....or rip off ....then it isnt half bad really .... its got some action going on ...basic story, acting is on par .....i mean easily a standard filler film for a saturday with nothing to do , just put it on and waste a couple of hours kind of deal sure ... OR you could rewatch MAD MAX FURY ROAD again !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4/10.