"World Gone Wild" a well done post-apoc film

[Fearless Freep]

Saw this one last night and I thought it was great; one of the better post-apoc films I've seen.

World Gone Wild

Now, 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

[Damien]

Bruce Dern is a very good [and under cost] actor that was around for years. I do think since "The Burbs" his been at high demand... He hasent played any lead roles in years... (The Two Headed Transplant, and Silent Running were the only two lead roles I know he was in)

Micheal Pare... is one of those actors that seems to have a path handed to him from the start and didnt go anywhere but from one bad movie to another worser then the last. (Maybe this guy has bad luck, or he cannot act... some of his movies were so bad that nobody seems that they could act)


Catherine Mary Stewert ... This is one girl I wish I seen more of her... (I love Night Of The Comet) but where is she now... Sure she is older today, and I think she was in her mid 20's when doing Night Of The Comet... maybe she got old realy fast. Hollywood is funny that way I guess, if you look old you get droped (well this was back in the 80's... today, it seems that older female actress can still make movies)

World Gone Wild is a very good "Low budget" post-apoc film... Sure no Mad Max story, but it was a hell a lot better then Defcon,

[Fearless Freep]

I remember Bruce Dern most as the Admiral in "Up, Periscope"  I've only seen parts of the "The Burbs".

Micheal Pare I've seen in a fair amount of low-budget stuff.  This was one of his better efforts, much better than "Space Rage" or "In the Dead Of Space"

Sure no Mad Max story, but it was a hell a lot better then Defcon,

It was much better than a lot of low budget post-apoc films I've seen recently :)

[Damien]

I do agree with you on that, I've rented this move at least 2 or 3 times (I havent seen the movie in years) but I think the combo of Bruce, Adam and the sexy Catherine made the movie. Micheal role could of been played by anybody else and the movie could of been good or even better.

Post-apoc films are very rare and many of them do suck...

[Fearless Freep]

Micheal role could of been played by anybody else and the movie could of been good or even better.

I'm not sure.  The role could've been played by a lot of people, but it would've had to be someone who could kinda laugh and not take it too seriously and realize the 'ensemble' nature of what the cast had to do.  I can think of a lot of people who could've messed it up by being too self-important

But I agree that  Bruce, Catherine, and Adam really made the movie worth watching.  Along with the cannibal and to a lesser extent the 'gunfighter' who built his own still

Post-apoc films are very rare and many of them do suck...

Not too rare, I seem to have seen a lot...and most of them are mediocre to terrible ("Equalizer 2000" anyone?)