Dystopia: 2013 |
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USA • 2012 • 122m •
  • Directed by: Johnno Zee. • Starring: Cody Brown, Steve Arvig, Kristin Mothersbaugh, Sam Senovich, Jennifer Eiffert, Nelson J. Flowers, Scott Fitzpatrick, Warren Ray, Joe Falk, Leah Samson, Tyler Mease, Richie Velasquez, Chris Cactus Yarnton. • Music by: Bryan D. Arata.    A film about the mythical and mysterious cataclysm which befalls mankind on December 21st, 2012 and what happens next. Centered around 4 characters, each with a back story of what their life was like before it all came crashing down, the film depicts life for these characters as they struggle for survival and strive to discover the cause of the end of civilization as we presently know it.
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In some ways you've got to admire the producers behind DYSTOPIA 2013 who have decided to make a movie without any budget. They get around the real problem of portraying an apocalypse by alluding to it via the title sequence then cutting to David wandering around as a survivor with the audience left to join up the dots as to what has happened
The unfortunate thing is that being an American film the producers are trying to emulate MAD MAX as if that's the only role model for post apocalyptic fiction. Big mistake. Britain has a long heritage of this type of speculative fiction with novelists such as John Wyndham and John Christopher. Indeed when David meets up with some protagonists and one of them is a convicted criminal you're reminded of THE DEATH OF GRASS, but for some reason DYSTOPIA is trying to be an action adventure movie and if you don't have the budget for it then you can't afford to make the convincing action scenes needed for it
I don't like to be too negative for film makers who get off their backside and don't let a lack of budget stop them from pursuing their dreams but I'm often reminded of the constant fundamental problems when someone does this, namely having a screenplay that tries too hard to enthral the audience and having a cast who are very wooden. This type of premise should follow the 2009 overlooked masterpiece THE ROAD but this film ends up becoming the road to nowhere.
Review by Theo Robertson from the Internet Movie Database.
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