Good concept, poorly executed.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

There was some serious potential here, but it completely falls flat in the 2nd act. I am totally going to spoil it here so be warned. So she starts out being captured by cannibals, who proceed to cut off and eat her arm and leg. She then escapes and kills one of the cannibals and is rescued by a hermit. Okay. Then she goes back later with a new leg and kills another one and takes the kid with her presumably to give her a better life or at least not leave her in the desert, even though that would be and was the first place her father looked. She gets messed up at a party and looses the kid and gets captured again by a cannibal. Then somehow is rescued by some rando good guy and goes back to the safety of the city. So what does she do now? She searches everywhere for the girl and when she finally finds her, she hatches some stupid plan to risk her life and get the girl back from a life of luxury and ease, just so she can return her to her cannibal father who she apparently has feelings for despite only knowing him for a day when he kidnapped her. They then eat her pet rabbit and it fades to black. What? These cannibals just ate half of her and now she risks her life and joins them because.....why?? Did she seriously develop Stockholm syndrome in one hungover day in the desert?Ugh. The acting, writing, and direction is sub par at best. It is obvious that they really tried to make this a cool movie but just couldn't put the pieces together. It had a few moments where I thought they were on the right track but they were few and far between and it ultimately was a bad batch.

Wow, what a complete load of deluded crap this is.Not a bad idea with assembling all the crims in one place like Escape from New York but it really is the perfect example of a director that believes themselves to be hip, cool and super talented.Really, if a character is walking somewhere you don't need to show me them walking for literally 3 or 4 minutes, I've got it, film something.The money they spent on special lenses and tedious tracking shots should have been spent on the virtually non-existent script. A boring, non entertaining piece of self important trash.

If you look through my extensive history of rating movies over the many years of being an imdb member, you would know that I only reserve good grades for most special of films. I grade things with brutal honesty and it takes A LOT to get me to grade something a 7, let along 8 or 9 but this, I strongly feel, deserves a 10. Yes a ten. Camera work is spectacular. Scene composition is absolutely amazing. Most of the scenes do not even require dialogue. Every gesture, every facial expression, every little detail was not missed. Watching silent clips was like watching entire conversation because it was about the scene.... not some lazy rehashed instant gratification copy paste algorithm that is applied to movies. This movie literally had a story line and that story line was of a post apocalyptic no hope at all, no light at the end of the tunnel... just surviving sort of thing. From the first few minutes to brutality of what came after to wandering about the universe that was created by the writer/director... it was hitting all the right buttons. Watching this on my home projector on a 10 foot wide screen just blew entire movie out of the water. I felt that it was a breath of fresh air. I felt that this movie was exactly what I was looking for. Granted to the most impatient one, this movie is certainly a no go. This is not about gore, this is not about action... this is not some mad max 2 with Charlize theron driving about the desert. This was about anything but that. I felt drawn to the story line for a change and helped by amazing scenery and stunning videography it just made a 5 and then a 6 and then an 8 and then a 10. Whether it was something as simple as sun blistered character or random bizzare group of people who clearly did not fit in.... this movie just kept getting better and better for me. I am so thankful that I ordered it on Netflix. I can see how this little gem can be clearly overlooked.

To sum this movie up it's different. The main character Suzuki what's her face is pleasing to the eye. You have Kal Drogo being Kal Drogo I guess. Never understand why this guy plays characters with strange dialogue. Keanu Reeves, and I didn't even realize it was Jim Carrey. I mean the movie has all the elements but the story revolves around a little girl that I clearly could care less about. She's not even a likable character but the plot just circles around her and those "find the child" type of movies are always the worst. I mean name one movie about saving or finding a kid that's good. I mean I can only think of 1 and that's Terminator 2 and that's because that movie didn't suck. I give this movie 6 stars because I like the atmosphere, the cast, it was shot well but the plot... was it ever terrible. I mean stick to the basics of desert wasteland. Controlling the water or the fuel or whatever resource people need to survive throw in the bad guy in control of it all and then the heroine trying to stop them and free the people so they can have access to said resource without being slaves. I mean that's every futuristic desert wasteland story this one should of just stuck to that and it would of been a good movie. Instead we get a movie about a kid you don't care about and a dumb ending that makes no sense.