Bad Enough to Be Funny, but Not Boring

tclark55

POSITIVE: 1) although it is bad enough to be funny, it is not boring; 2) there was some nudity; 3) some of the special effects (the destroyed city, the radioactive rain) were not bad; 4) there were a few surprises in the script, such as children being killed (not shown)--as a father, I do not like seeing children killed or abused in movies, but it is noteworthy when it happens; 5) the actor who played Newman, the lead, seemed to be doing his own stunts; 6) Sid Haig's acting was good.

NEGATIVE: 1) the pretentious script, especially between the lead character, Newman, and the boy; 2) the soundtrack which had so many different snippets of music, many of them unrelated to what was happening on the screen (cute, happy music when people are fighting?); 3) the film-making--fading to black between scenes always seems like a low-budget, old fashioned way to transition; 4) the hero's stupidity--Newman has to be stupid to try to take Cutter, Sid Haig's villain, alive, and it leads to the deaths of the most sympathetic characters; 5) the plot--it ends with a boy out in the desert walking down the middle of the highway alone (he probably will not last long); 5) the narration--the final narrator is the boy, but if he is looking back, shouldn't he have an older voice? 6) logic--Newman shoots one of the bad guys in both legs, then suddenly the bad guy is able to start fighting with him and is almost able to throw him off the roof; 7) special effects-- the space ship at the beginning.

score 1/10

tclark55 12 June 2020

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