George Taylor I'm really beginning to think that a lot of the reviews on IMDB are by the filmmakers family and friends. I don't see how anyone could rate this silliness beyond a 1. A little movie review. Recently I watched 2018 Post-Apocalyptic movie called "The Domestics." Let me be honest here, it should have been called The Dumbestics. It's everything I hate in a Post-Apocalyptic movie. Most of all, it's a movie where there's no logic at all. This is a problem with most films of this type. First, we learn that the US Government has gassed most of the populace, killing off 97 percent of the populace. 97 percent! Yet there are all kinds of gangs running about. There's no kind of timeline, so we don't know how long things have progressed. The main characters are a husband and wife whose marriage is on the collapse. So to save it, they head to Milwaukee where her parents are. They run into and get out of many problems - problem is - none of it's believable. In a space of about four days, wife goes from nimrod barely able to survive, to valkyrie. There's a mystery woman who saves them time and again before she... no that would be telling. Finally, like most films that really annoy me - it just ends. There's also an annoying as hell Radio announcer (much like the 70's film Vanishing Point). It's just a dull mish-mosh of ideas with very little thought behind it. It's like a paint by numbers of how NOT to do a post-apocalyptic movie.

a_chinn The US has been devastated by war and disease, killing off most of the population and leaving survivors without a government or civil order. What's left is different gang controlled territories by The Sheets, The Cherries, The Plow Boys, The Gamblers, and The Domestics. The Sheets wear sheets. The Cherries are an all-girl gang. The Plow Boys drive a big plow. The Gamblers are the most interesting, continually playing games of chance, spinning prize wheels or doing rock-paper-scissors to decide whether to kill someone or not. That group had a bit more to their mythology and are the most interesting, having an actual culture rather than just an interesting outfit or namesake prop. The Domestics are the gang who are the most normal and identifiable (you know, domestic) and that gang is where our two heroes herald from. The distinct look of each gang, outside of the normal Domestics, made this film seem like a post-apocalyptic version of Walter Hill's "The Warriors" with our hero gang, The Domestics, having the bop their way through enemy gang territory to get to safety. There's even a DJ narrating between the film's events, just as Hill's DJ did in his 1979 film. The story wastes no time getting down to business with a husband (Tyler Hoechlin) and wife (Kate Bosworth) setting out across the county to find out why Bosworth's parents stopped answering on their CB radio. As will Walter Hill's film, writer/director Mike P. Nelson's story unfolds in a series of episodic events, where the couple encounters various gangs, although unlike "The Warriors," this film comes to a head with a major confrontation between all of the warring gangs. That climactic action scene is pretty good, but my favorite episode comes early in the story when the couple is rescued by a kind man, Lance Reddick, and his son who takes the pair back to his warm welcoming home to meet his family and enjoy a hot meal, which (SPOILER ALERT!) ends up being PEOPLE! It's a wonderfully creepy episode with this seemingly normal and caring family turning out to be cannibals. What makes the episode work so well is that it doesn't build to a familiar Texas Chainsaw Massacre crescendo with Bosworth and Hoechlin becoming the family's next meal, but they instead find themselves calmly being invited to join the family. I wish more of "The Domestics" was made up of more unique and unexpected of episodes such as this, instead of the more familiar encounter/fight/flee formula that makes up a majority of the couple's encounters (though their encounter with The Gamblers in a ramped up version of Russian Rouletter that's a bit like "The Deer Hunter" meets "SAW" is pretty wild). Overall, "The Domestics" has the grim look of "The Road" but is more similar to the comic book post-apocalyptic action of something along the lines of "The Purge" or "Z-Nation", which isn't a bad thing, but I think this movie had the potential for greatness with it's solid cast, excellent production design, and some cool ideas sprinkled throughout.

rabyjohal Girl who wouldnt kill a fly and didnt know how to shoot .next morning while she was injured gone Ak47 . Was on killing like professional .stupid

Claudio Carvalho IMDb used to be a serious site about cinema; however it is impressive the number of fake reviews some films have after the recent modification of this site. "The Domestics" is one of them. There are reviews promoting this garbage with the intention of luring the unwary reader. "The Domestics" is awful and stupid. There is neither explanation nor development of the situation that caused the apocalypse. Why the black gas was released by the government? The lead couple performed by Tyler Hoechlin and Kate Bosworth show no chemistry. The annoying Nina West after listening to a metal rock very loud (despite the dangerous gangs everywhere) becomes a very bold heroin, shooting at the gangsters. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "Os Domésticos" ('The Domestics")