Empty

The basic notion is actually a decent-enough premise for a story: a gas crisis leads to a rapid breakdown of society. Fair enough.

However, the acting is so amateurish and the sets so poor that it really does have all the production values of a mid-range porn flick. To be fair, the female lead seems to have sufficient credibility but literally everyone else is awful.

The music consists of some 'Deer Hunter'-inspired acoustic guitar plucking and is often accompanied by extended scenes of the countryside. It feels like an advert for a 10-cd, easy-listening pack.

I thoroughly recommend not bothering with this; it is utterly unrewarding as a film experience.

I watch movies, especially B movies. I admit I am a glutton for punishment because I love zombie flicks and most of them are horrible. I find good in almost every movie I watch. This movie has nothing to make it redeemable.

But, no zombie movie I have ever seen (and that includes the Italian zombie flicks) approached the movie "Empty" for absolutely trash. The lead female (Ashley C. Williams) might be able to act, but she never demonstrates it here. The lead male needs to find a line of work that has nothing to do with show business for he never even approached being a believable character.

They had a basic idea of societal breakdown following a lack of gasoline worldwide, which has many opportunities for great story but they found none of them. Both "Piper" and "Dell" are utterly unlikeable characters who spend the entire time demonstrating zero charisma or chemistry. The female lead has lines written to show her as a vapid silly little twit, as an example, she begs her boyfriend to stop hitting the guy who just attacked them and (for a young broke couple) throws money away like a Hilton-Heiress while her boyfriend is presented as a jobless loser with a chip on his shoulder the size of Texas and the reasoning ability of a drunken pre-teen. Both of them take every dangerous path, every ignorant path and every self-damaging path they are offered.

Both of them treat each other like enemies rather than lovers or friends, and the male lead is basically a whiny child. While watching this movie I kept hoping they would both be tortured to death graphically for hours so I could enjoy their karmic reward but it never happens. It is reported that this movie had a budget of US$10000, and I have to assume they spent USD$9999 of it on getting drunk enough to make them think it was worth doing.

IMDb shows it as having a rating of 4.7/10 from 176 users, I have to assume that over 100 of those votes came from the family and friends of the cast and crew.

I see close to 700 movies a year and this by far was the absolute worst piece of garbage out there. There is no story line that makes any sense and the acting is so deplorable that even if their was a story they would lose it.

I don't think a 10k budget should be an excuse for a lack of story or horrible direction. It had actors who must have worked for free and they were overpaid. The constant arguing was comical in that it made you root for both of these central characters to meet a quick and painful demise.

Under no circumstances waste any time watching this. It was laughable at most points based on lack of reason and deplorable acting. I would rather spend one hour and 45 minutes dealing with an ingrown toe nail.

The story is supposed to be about a shortage of gas but it never really has anything to do with the lack of action. I watched till the end in the hope that a twist or some act of a higher power could save this drivel. Not a chance.

This is a tiny film with a tiny budget. I've read that the acting was terrible, but I don't agree. Sadly, I believe this is exactly how 2 spoiled kids in their early 20s would react to a situation like this. Foolish boy who puts on the macho act because he's scared as hell inside. Scared daddy's girl who has no real world experience behaving just as you would expect a scared little daddy's girl to behave. Constant and unending bickering.

The plot itself is interesting if unbelievable. Lots of mistakes in the filming, and I must admit I fast forwarded through much of the arguing. I did finish the movie. It's a pretty forgettable film, but I don't feel too bad about it.

What a waste of my time. I enjoy low budget movies, when done well, this was not!! Bad acting, horrible script and the story......It looked like it could have potential but within the opening 2 mins I knew this was going to be horrible. At the beginning the dialogue tries to suggest character background but in such an unsubtle way as to insult the viewer. The movie contains lines which my 8 year old daughter could have written better. The lead characters are unlikeable and as such you never feel part of the movie. The directing is poor and feels like a first year film students attempt at movie making. I can only suggest that you do NOT watch this as it wasted my time and hopefully I can go someway to stopping you from wasting yours, be warned I have told you. Its not often a movie hits my worst 20 films of all time but I think this may have just made it onto the list!