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Years Later" DVD
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20 Years Later is one
of those movies where I can't shake the feeling like I walked
into the middle of the film even though I clearly started at the
beginning.
The plot, which I'm
having a terribly difficult time following, is about a woman who
gets pregnant just after nuclear war turns America into a smoking
ruin in the grandest Capital Wasteland style. No mention is made
of what country did it or who we turned into rubble just afterward,
and you know we did, even IF we were attacked first. Anyway, the
woman in question has some bizarre family issues, and is being
pursued by what appears to be a random lunatic who wants her baby
for some reason.
No, I'm completely
lost. It's like watching two separate movies that just happen
to have the same characters, the problem is that one movie is
good and the other one is complete garbage. I spent so much time
just literally baffled. There would be parts that would pull me
in, and get me interested, and keep me watching, and then all
of a sudden we'd switch gears to some random building somewhere
full of what I can only guess was crackheads. I'd be watching
the cave people get along with each other, and make the blue glass
tree, and set up their radio station and all like that, and then
boom! It's back to what I can only describe as the Raider camp
who are walking around a firepit and watching a spider make a
web.
The worst of it is
that I love a good post-Apocalyptic epic just as much as the next
guy, if not more so. Survival horror is a personal favorite subgenre.
I lost maybe two weeks to Fallout 3 and I haven't even tried Operation:
Anchorage yet. I'm desperately looking forward to when The Pitt
comes out.
But 20 Years Later...man,
that was just beyond me.
The ending features
some kind of attempt to tie together more loose ends than a plate
of linguini, but just can't quite seem to pull it off without
being even more confusing and a bit contrived in the process.
All in all, I tried
to like this one, really I did, and there are occasional moments
of brightness to this, but at the end of the day I just can't
get behind it.
20
Years Later
**
DVD
Directed by Jim Torres
Written by Jim Torres, Ron Harris
Starring Azura Skye, Joshua Leonard, Nathan Baesel, Reg E. Cathey
Produced by Derek Thornton, D. Scott Lumpkin, Donna Brower, Anthony
Balch
R
2008
95 mins
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