SteyrAUG
07-08-20, 00:47
I didn't set my expectation too high for this Canadian "preparing for the end of the world" film and I wasn't really disappointed.
It was an interesting cautionary tale about preppers / survivalists. Some surprising gun porn with Vz58s and AK-74s and thankfully no CGI muzzle flashes. They seemed to have used actual firearms (modified for blanks and film use) just like American films prior to around the year 2000.
There's lots you will see coming from a mile away. The fact that a survival retreat quickly becomes Lord of the Flies when the first real world challenge presents itself and what is meant to be a supreme irony that "survivalist don't need to fear the horde of masses that they are training for as much as they need to fear each other."
Yawn.
Moral of the story, if you probably wouldn't go camping with strangers or people you have only met online, you probably don't want to go to a remote mountain retreat far removed from civilization where people are training to kill what remains of society after the collapse. If that isn't already obvious to you, you might think this film is brilliant. For everyone else it's kind of "duh...who would do that?"
There are moments of unintended humor similar to "The Green Inferno" (2013) as the survivalists who train to be the last people standing are astonishingly ignorant of basic tactics and even those who supposedly have prior military training blindly walk into ambush situations that even a 90 day wonder "butter bar" would be wary of.
Also if you are the guy who has prepped for the end of the world and built an "off the grid" self sustaining survival fortress and a lone female can kick your ass on the home field, you suck at prepping for the end of the world.
Anyway, worth a look if you are bored, if for no other reason than to get an understanding of what other people think survivalist camp would look like. I guess they never saw "The Road" and personally I'm sticking with "The Survivors" (1983) which is actually the only thing worth a damn that Robin Williams ever did.
It was an interesting cautionary tale about preppers / survivalists. Some surprising gun porn with Vz58s and AK-74s and thankfully no CGI muzzle flashes. They seemed to have used actual firearms (modified for blanks and film use) just like American films prior to around the year 2000.
There's lots you will see coming from a mile away. The fact that a survival retreat quickly becomes Lord of the Flies when the first real world challenge presents itself and what is meant to be a supreme irony that "survivalist don't need to fear the horde of masses that they are training for as much as they need to fear each other."
Yawn.
Moral of the story, if you probably wouldn't go camping with strangers or people you have only met online, you probably don't want to go to a remote mountain retreat far removed from civilization where people are training to kill what remains of society after the collapse. If that isn't already obvious to you, you might think this film is brilliant. For everyone else it's kind of "duh...who would do that?"
There are moments of unintended humor similar to "The Green Inferno" (2013) as the survivalists who train to be the last people standing are astonishingly ignorant of basic tactics and even those who supposedly have prior military training blindly walk into ambush situations that even a 90 day wonder "butter bar" would be wary of.
Also if you are the guy who has prepped for the end of the world and built an "off the grid" self sustaining survival fortress and a lone female can kick your ass on the home field, you suck at prepping for the end of the world.
Anyway, worth a look if you are bored, if for no other reason than to get an understanding of what other people think survivalist camp would look like. I guess they never saw "The Road" and personally I'm sticking with "The Survivors" (1983) which is actually the only thing worth a damn that Robin Williams ever did.