Rob Butcher We stuck it out on Sky Box Office. Depressing acting, writing and a monotonous whirring noise in the background. Even the final action scenes were stilted by continuous freeze-motion captures. This works for NCIS every ten minutes but not in a movie every five seconds for a minute.After twenty minutes, we no longer cared but watched it purely to see if anyone survived - there was little hope of it improving.You never find out what happened to start the holocaust. You never found out how 24 litres of water lasts for a month for nine people. Or how one toilet bucket lasts ... But you cease caring.After growing up with the threat of a nuclear holocaust, we were prepared to watch good acting. But there was none. Hunter was a powerful leader for the first thirty minutes, but after that seemed to lose interest.Very disappointed.

Wizard-8 When I first found out about this movie, I looked it up here and read the previous user comments, and I was intrigued that people were pretty much split on the movie, some liking it and some hating it. This intrigued me enough to go out and rent the Blu-ray. I thought in the end it was pretty good. Now, I feel I should mention that I have an interest in post-apocalypse movies as well as low budget B movies, so there was some appeal for me that other viewers might not find. But there is some other stuff - good stuff - that I think might please other viewers. It is well acted, with even fallen actor Edward Furlong gives a good performance. The direction is very atmospheric - you can really feel the grit and gloom the characters are experiencing. The movie definitely does not sugar-coat the situation, and what it portrays I think would be accurate if the situation did happen in real life.There are a few unanswered questions, like how the survivors happened to have a stethoscope, but such questions didn't concern me that much since most of the rest of the movie is solid. If I have any real complaint, it is that the direction is too up and close to the actors at times. I realize that 90% of the movie takes place in a basement, but I think the director still could have given a somewhat wider view of the situation at times. Despite that, however, I would recommend this movie.

MartinHafer Tonight, I watched "Aftermath"--a tense and scary film about a small group hunkered down in a basement after a nuclear apocalypse. While it's a pretty good film, the film I expected to see was "Aftermath"--a film about a Polish-American man who is returning to Poland for a visit. Somehow, Netflix just released the film...the wrong film. I called them and they said that the company NEVER ordered the apocalyptic film...and others are apparently reporting that they, too, got this film instead! Well, I guess it was just meant to be that I saw the other film instead!Both films were made in 2012--so I can understand the mix-up. The Aftermath I saw was directed by Peter Engert and stars a variety of talented but relatively unknown actors. This was a good thing, as the movie is about ordinary people and how they react to a nuclear war. Having Brad Pitt or Meryl Streep in the film might have been cool...but it wouldn't have worked with a picture like this.When the movie, you learn that several nations have begun detonating nuclear weapons on each other. Exactly how and why isn't important-- what IS important is that somehow a chain reaction occurred and nations are now nuking each other! The film is set in rural Texas and even there they are impacted as soon bombs start detonating all around them. A young doctor, Brad (C.J. Thomason) is backpacking when the bombs start going off nearby--and he and a woman and her blinded brother rush to find supplies and shelter before the effects of the blasts kill them. Finding the supplies is amazingly easy as is a vehicle, but the shelter is another thing. Brad and his two new friends aren't sure if they'll ever find a basement or bomb shelter, as the first place they try results in Brad getting shot! He's going to survive but what about the next place they try? And, even if they find a shelter, what will happen when the folks that remain start to behave like animals...as they most certainly will.If you are looking for a feel-good movie or a date film, then you need to keep looking. Not surprisingly, "Aftermath" is incredibly depressing and eventually looks a lot like a zombie movie in many ways. But that does not mean it's a bad film--and nuclear apocalypse, unless I am mistaken, SHOULD be incredibly depressing!! Christian McDonald's script is very intelligently written and SEEMS probable. While I am sure nuclear physicists and engineers would find lots of plot holes, it sure seemed real and kept my attention. I also appreciated it because it was a great look at human nature--at least for us pessimists who assume such a horrific event would be made even worse by many of the survivors and near-survivors. In some ways, the film reminded me a bit of the classic film "On the Beach"--but without all the movie star cameos. In this 1959, the world also starts to slowly die because of a widespread nuclear exchange but too many of the characters seemed amazingly nice, decent and orderly in the face of certain death. I am not knocking it--it's a good film despite this. But it lacks the grittiness and ugliness you see in "Aftermath". Ugly, tense and awful--all good reasons to give this independent film a chance. However, also very good reasons NOT to watch this with your kids!! In fact, I really think it's perhaps too tense, depressing and bloody for many adults--but it STILL is a very good film because it never falls back on sentiment or clichés. It's worth a look...for the right viewers.

bbickley13-921-58664 The poster to the movie was far cooler than the movie itself.It feels like the filmmakers allowed their love of Zombie films to influence the movie they made. The plot is about a nuclear holocaust that seem to come out of nowhere hitting on American soil and focuses on a handful of people who are dealing with the whole thing.The cast of characters are all locked in a seller waiting for the radiation to clear up enough for them to surface. Like most small movies of it's caliber, the movie focuses mostly on the inner turmoil between the characters, who I did not find that interesting. This small crew also had to deal with others from the outside who minds have been altered do to what's happening on the surface. Not much to the story but it did not need to be, but I my interest in the characters was lacking.