Desolate (I) (2018) User Reviews

Disturbing

[omendata · 6/10 · 15 July 2019]

Well filmed and acted and a very strange story - where is this meant to be set as I certainly haven't seen this sort of place in the USA and in what year as it seems to be a futuristic movie or just trying to be different.

I must admit I always find movies in which women are used and abused quite disturbing and this one leaves a particularly bad taste in the mouth and does not really have many redeeming features!

I suppose you could say it does illustrate what is going on in the world but it has been done many times before and this film really gives nothing new and although it is well acted the story really goes nowhere - pretty average fair!

What a missed opportunity

[topcar · 6/10 · 16 July 2019]

First half 8/10 the second half 5/10, it's like one person wrote the first half and someone else wrote the second half, This could of been a very very good movie

Incoherent

[bornskeptic · 5/10 · 7 February 2020]

This movie was a mess. It had a lot of potential.... family of brothers amid this awful landscape fighting for survival. But the script was simply unintelligible. It had enough plot and story for a 3 hour movie which makes me wonder if this thing got butchered in the editing room. There were leaps in logic and believability that were jaw dropping. Made no sense. I loved some of the characters, a couple of tense scenes, and some beautiful outdoor cinematography. But it was so disappointing.

Another piece of garbage with fake imdb reviews

[carlos-pires · 1/10 · 13 July 2019]

This is surely one of the worst movies I have ever watched in the last 40 years. Don't believe the 9 star reviews, which are obviously fake reviews from production staffers. Hint: click on the "See all my reviews" and if this guy who is so eloquently praising this piece o's*** only has 1 review, IT'S OBVIOUSLY FAKE! As for the movie... it has the most stupid and incoherent plot I have ever seen. Nothing makes sense. Looks like a bunch of redneck inbreeding crackheads decided to movie on redneck inbreeders and crackheads. I was fooled by above-average poster design and by fake imdb reviews. Please don't make the same mistake I did.

Predictable and truly awful

[pencritical · 1/10 · 22 July 2019]

Desolate supposedly takes place in a land where no rain has fallen in forever, but there is grass -- brown grass. Evidently these dumb jack-knapes don't know what ground would look like when nothing grows for years. There wouldn't be ANY grass you morons. Try a desert, the outback? A tundra? Not the badlands... that grass is just summer dormant. Idiots make bad movies.

Anyway, bad settings aside, the story is asinine and boring as hell. A stupid idiot of a kid has three equally stupid and overbearing older brothers and a "shades of Deliverance type" stupid father who all insist he tow the line, which up until this point he evidently hasn't been doing but suddenly feels the need to do now?

Stuff as expected goes from bad to worse. There is a girl. There is stolen money. There are bad guys. There is betrayal. There is more betrayal. There is a lot of death. The comatose stupid kid is a hero under it all. All the people who should live do except one sacrificial good guy. Blah, Blah, Blah. Does it sound familiar? It should. You've seen it before. It bored you then. It will bore you now. Don't bother.

Meh. Rather lack luster.

[Medevi1 · 5/10 · 16 July 2019]

This movie gets 5 stars from me, and just barely. I can see some giving it a 6 but anything over that is either someone selling their product or people that are easily impressed. This is a modern day western set in forgotten town USA. There is nothing futuristic about it. More a look into the bleak world of man when left to his own devices. The movies story is unoriginal with typical characters behaving in typical fashion. The pace is set early, and never really gains any steam making it feel monotonous. The movie does do a good job at making you wonder how thing came to be the way they are, and has a real sense of believability in that it could happen without to much stretch of the imagination. That's really the only thing the movie has going for it. I didn't find it unsettling, brutal, exciting, or compelling in any way. It's average nothing more, and nothing less. Watch it if you like, but please don't be persuaded by these reviews giving it 9s, and 10! I promise you it's a 5!

Way better than expected

[machi712-835-648661 · 7/10 · 11 February 2020]

Is it a stellar film? No, but it's way better than I expected. Good acting, good action, interesting enough plot, effectively disturbing at times. Some plot holes but solid indy thriller.

Horrible Horrible, Horrible Movie

[sp1063 · 1/10 · 28 November 2020]

It started off really, really bad..........and just kept getting worse. I can't even tell you why I watched it to the end.

Don't waste your time or your bandwidth on it.

Good movie!

[vultur_gryphus · 9/10 · 11 February 2020]

Wtf is with the bad reviews?! Good acting, cool story line...maybe a little predictable but still so so good!

A good surprise !

[damienmassart · 7/10 · 15 July 2019]

First, I was thinking to a cheap, low-budget, Mad Max-like movie, but I soon discovered that Desolated had its own singularity : that of a futuristic western with epic accents. The plot is good, the acting is excellent, and the stagîng is sumptuous. Some scenes look like Edward Hopper or Andy Wyeth paintings, and it sometimes reminded me of Days of Heaven or The Reflecting Skin, in the way of filmîg lands capes. In a time of movies formatted on the same model, it was a really good surprise to discover a film like this one, original, intense and dramatic. Watch it, you won't waste your time.

What Kind Of Love Have You Got ???

[nebohr · 5/10 · 4 December 2020]

Billy Is A Classic Screw-Up. He Gets His Family Killed Because He Puts His Love For A Girlfriend Above His Loyalty For His Family. There Is A Significance To The Ending...But It Has A Falseness To It.

Oh man...

[mercyaintfree · 2/10 · 6 February 2020]

Just a really...really...REALLY bad film. If you watch this though there are some memorable lines that are supposed to be dramatic..but are laugh out loud funny. Probably cost 1.99 to make...."it was an accident Billy" "you shot him in the heart Ned". Hahahaaaaaa. Billy and Ned. Frank and Ted. Camaros and prostitutes. WANTED...DEAD OR ALIVE...THE PLOT FOR THIS cough...MOVIE.

Confusing bundle of randomness

[Kyle-Kyohazard · 4/10 · 15 February 2020]

Starts off as a desolate (title) post apocalyptic desert world where families are struggling to survive against each other and turns into a confusing weird hillbilly heist/drug/prostitution ring movie. Feels more like an episode of the David Morse TV series Outsiders than Mad Max. The only real saving grace is Jason Ritter (Humperdoo)

Worth to try

[ariqakbar · 7/10 · 3 August 2019]

Yes the story was going far from the grip as this movie goes. but it doesn't make it that bad. the half from begining gave a very strong story for me. good background. the concept feels pretty tight too.

they do a quite good act to be fair. great choice of set.

the closing feels it force to be there. and make the movie more even going to the bad decision. but beside that i kinda enjoy a whole package of this one.

Emotional - I FELT this!

[jjstetch · 8/10 · 3 May 2020]

It got better and better. Then I HAD to see what was going to happen - very good development timing and keeping the audience engaged. Kind of meditative, I liked the spaces between the action. You can really feel for each character's motivations, no matter what side they were on.

Worth more than its current 4.9 rating

[natasha661 · 6/10 · 26 October 2020]

Unsure why not rated higher. Good indie film. Main character Billy Stone was likeable. Liked the hot dry rural setting, showing the grim realities of farming with no water and the breakdown of local community and influx of drugs and prostitution/human trafficking. Becoming a eat or be eaten mentality. Enjoyed.

Good acting makes up for weak script

[lighterthanair-82569 · 6/10 · 2 December 2020]

Worth watchIng, although it brought up many logic questions, such as, why are you fighting to save a farm where nothing has grown for years? And Billy, the "good guy" taking revenge on his brothers who left him behind... while being shot at by a psycho with a machine gun? I love my brother, but I hate machine guns even more. They had to leave him. And why are there full service burger joints when there are no cows? However... it kept me glued to the TV with good acting and enough action to justify 90 minutes. And a great job by Callan, the guy who played Van, the "mysterious hero."

worth the watch

[tenorfly-1 · 8/10 · 14 July 2019]

Starting to take a lot to grab my attention, this film did, solid acting great story

Wow! Way better than expected.

[shellycaldeira808 · 10/10 · 14 July 2019]

Really liked this movie! The epitome of both bad character & people with all the right stuff. Wanted more. It's got one of those endings where you kinda know what the future holds however you just wanna see and experience some of that future! Double thumbs up!!

Great movie!

[chermcguire · 9/10 · 3 May 2021]

Like someone said...I don't know why the bad reviews. If you want an action thriller, this is it! Very intense! Bloody! Violent! Great acting. Great stunts. Restricted 🚫 Not suitable for children! This review should give you a clue as to what kind of movie you are watching...so if you don't like violence, don't watch it!