Saw this one last night and I thought it was great; one of the better post-apoc films I've seen.
World Gone WildNow, the general plot is pretty much "The Magnificent Seven" Small defenseless community in the desert gets attacked by raiders, so they send someone to the big city to get some mercenary assistance. Mercenaries come back and defend the town. However, while taking the general plot from "The..Seven", the story is unique enough to not be considered a rip-off. The community happens to be the only known source of water in the area (a precious commodity in the post-apoc world) And the raiders are a religious cult led my an insane messiah figure. The leader of the community is an ex-mercenery-criminal type himself and most of the crew he assembles are pretty shady themselves.
What really makes the movie work is two areas where most B-movies on a budget fall down: Acting and Dialogue. Bruce Dern does very well as the mushoom-eating, dreaming, ex-mercenary leader of the small desert community. Adam Ant is great as the leader of the cult and Micheal Pare also does a good job as the leader of the mercenaries. The rest of the mercenaries do well, as does the obligatory love interest played Catherine Mary Stewert ("Last Star Fighter", "Night Of The Comet"). All told, the actors work well with the parts and the dialogue. And the dialogue is the really good part, not a lot of hokey lines and some great funny one-liners well delivered.
Angie: I'm Angie, and I teach school
George: I'm George, and I can't read
Angie (about a new addition to the group): He's a cannibal!
George: Nobody's perfect
George (to the same cannibal mercenary after a battle, while said cannibal is surveying the dead): Just their's....not our's
It is a basic low-budget post-apoc film, but within the budget it works very well because it relies on the characters to carry it