After the End (2017) User Reviews

Good student film

[wimpysgarage · 4/10 · 21 July 2022]

Agree with other reviews, acting was good, cinematography was most excellent, plot, dialog and some sequences were reeeeeally bad.

If you go in thinking it was a high school film project, you will be impressed. If you pay to see it your inner Karen will likely come out.

Alright plot, but jumpy and incomplete

[papreppergal · 5/10 · 3 February 2023]

For what it is, it was alright. Lots of stereotype style jokes, no real character building, the viewer generally is able to figure out what's probably going to happen next before it does, had unlikely relationship building throughout - basically skipped over for times sake I'd imagine, but that a HUGE aspect to making a good movie - creating a "relationship" between the viewer and the characters in the movie. The teens seem to leave an obvious breadcrumb trail for the bad guys following them through their journey. You'd think if they had been skilled enough to survive up until this point, they'd have learned to be as discrete as possible as much as possible, like not deliberately leaving their bicycles at the base of a steep rock climb where they actually went up and over it - try to hide the bikes or maybe create a diversion with them??

One more big thing I mentioned right off the bat as we watched this was: lack of flashlights, lack of kerosene lamps, heaters, or candles (it appears to be a warm desert climate so there's a pass there on the heat aspect), but here's the biggest thing: the main character presumably came from a HOME, right? Parentd, siblings, extended family... meaning they had dishes - ceramic, glass, non-stick cookware, plastic contsiners even as seemn with the two 5 gallon "gatorade jugs" he's toteing around until wildlife destroys his "bugout supply".... WHY on earth is he sourcing his water from a well with a pump style spigot into a rusty, old, bent up #10 can?!! When all people on Earth virtually disappeared due to "the stripes disease" that he easily replicated & tricked the bad guys by smearing crushed up dandolion blosssoms and other herbs to smear across his body to fake being sick to fool the bad guys), and he needed to go into now vacant homes homes searching for canned goods, why didn't he grab a minimum of ONE clean (or filthy for that matter) kitchen container that that could collect the clean well water being pumped up out of the ground???

I guess when people disappear, so does common sense and all their belonging he could've resourced for clean water & food consumption as well.

How about he found a solar generated whole house temperature regulator that he took and used to recharge his cell phone to review old photos and videos . It reminded him of his Mom at Chridtmas time and that his Uncle Izzy gifted a book on survival. He quoted multiple times "The more you know, the less you need" yet throughout the duration of the movie, this conundrum was never answered. It was just a "good placement at the right time" to keep the viewer drawn in for a while longer.

He was out of water after the well seemingly quit providing water. Somehow he and his new female friend didn't require water until she rescued hom and brought him to the lake where he could suddenly think to use a metal pot (from where??) could boil said water.

So many flaws for a "prepper in trainer" I guess we could call him, yet all characters had survived at least a year without any of these things.

Bottom line, this movie had major flaws, but would I watch it again? Maybe. It wasn't so bad that it was turned off prematurely or anything. Maybe a 2nd watch would actually fill in a couple holes where the viewer felt like "Wait, what just happened there? How did he....? Where did that come from?" ect. There were plenty of these instances where attention to detail on the production teams part deserved a pretty poor grade. Like a not passing grade. As in an F, as in you flunked movie making school.

But I'll reiterate again, it wasn't so bad we turned it off prematurely or absolutely hated it. You just have to go with what's presented and NOT ask any how's, why's, wtf's, and what?!'s. Do that, and this movie is definitely for you! Enjoy!

The New Normal

[nogodnomasters · 4/10 · 16 September 2021]

Addison (Justin Dwayne Hall) is a 17-year-old prepper in Oklahoma. He survives the "stripes" pandemic by wearing a mask, gloves, and living alone. When his garden is destroyed by animals and his pump stops working, he opts to travel to his Uncle Izzy, a marine prepper. He doesn't take the direct route because of rat infestation, but goes through hillbilly country when he meets a girl (Alex Frnka) and trouble.

The film was on the boring side. I imagine they attempted to be realistic. Seems to me matches and Bic lighters would be plentiful and one wouldn't have to run two stones together.

Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity.

Wasted potential

[rbstern · 3/10 · 11 July 2022]

I love post-apocalyptic dramas, so I tend to give less-critical reviews of films in this genre.

Unfortunately, I can't do that with this film. It has very good potential, but the script and editing are dreadful. The story has incoherent scenes and sequences, along with implausible plot lines. It feels amateurish. There is some decent acting, and some of the cinematography is very good.

It's a low budget movie, and understandably, that makes it hard to do everything necessary to make a quality film. The script and the editing are usually the things that can be salvaged on a low budget, but wasn't done here.

What we're left with is a good potential story that is badly told, not so much by the actors, but by the director and editor.

A good what would you do movie

[hendrikhuigen · 7/10 · 4 July 2022]

I thought this was a good thought provoking movie. The movie isn't big on details. This movie would be great for a college course to drive a critical thinking discussion.

I couldn't finish watching this garbage

[orionhi · 1/10 · 19 September 2023]

They are riding bikes and based on the riding scenes averaging 8-10 mph stopping occasionally to literally smell the flowers. This goes on for several days so they should be 144-180 miles from where they started. There are three sloppy, fat, tubs of lard following them on foot and somehow can track their direction when they ride bicycles over asphalt. They stop frequently to look for clues as to what direction they went so at that walking speed they should be 18-36 miles from where they started which is the same location as the pair and somehow the three fat guys walking end up on the same path way ahead of the pair on bicycles. Now I understand you have to suspend belief on movies for the movie to work but when it's a major part of the plot is that utterly stupid it's just not possible and whoever directed this should be banned from making movies because you cause people to waste an hour of their life on this nonsense.

A bit unrealistic

[hwg-21795 · 5/10 · 3 April 2023]

Two kids on bikes get followed by 3 walking med and they catch up to them. Unrealistic. If you have wheels, you can make it hundreds of miles before someone on foot. Overall it was a good concept but the idea that they caught up to bikes got under my skin. It's a little but predictable but overall has good bones. I would have liked it to be written a little differently but it's written how it's written. As apocalypse movies go it's fine. Remind me never to survive the apocalypse. It just makes no sense to put yourself through this. Death is just not that bad. Weird that ppl want to live this way just to exist. The acting was good at least.

Had Promise

[Brillfury · 4/10 · 25 September 2023]

Based on the trailer I watched, I thought this looked like a decent movie, and in some ways it is. Nice atmosphere, good acting...the thing that drove me INSANE was the two main characters traveling by bicycles to get to their destination and at the same time evade these three hillbillies in pursuit. The hillbillies are. On. Foot. And SOMEHOW keep catching up to the two on bikes. I wish the writer or director would have had just one encounter between the main characters and the hillbillies. Then drop the hillbillies from the plot and introduce a different conflict later on. But nooooo. Made zero sense and ruined the whole film.