The world (at least this area) has turned to anarchy as water has become scarce. People survive in destroyed buildings. Kendal (Haley Lu Richardson) survives at the "Wallace Farm for Wayward Youth" along with a few others. Is "wayward" politically correct? Carson has a large pump and takes the remaining water on the aquifer and hunts and kills any "parasites" who dare take his water. Kendal is such a parasite.

The film consists of her strong will to survive and hunting down the right distributor cap for an airplane that they can fly somewhere with water and penguins...from Oregon. Good Luck Amelia. The dialogue was as dry as the desert. The action came in spurts and realistic enough to be boring.

Not the worst "Mad Max" type film out there, but it needed something more like mutants.

No F-bombs that I recall. No sex or nudity. Model Nicole Arianna Fox in tight pants. Booboo Stewart attempts some lines.

Life's not been easy for brother and sister Haley Lu Richardson and Booboo Stewart since the drought came. A drought unlike any other. Oregon where they live is no longer fertile and green. Instead it's looking very much like the Mojave Desert where The Last Survivors was shot. It stopped raining there 10 years earlier in a natural world wide disaster.

But in their own corner of the world a man named Carson played by Jon Gries is pushing out all of the people who are and have dug wells to survive. He's got the men and muscle to push them out and kill the survivors. Gries wants the whole valley for himself and to pass on to his daughter Nicole Ariana Fox who's as much a human predator as her father is.

This quickie which only took days to shoot is decently done and the ensemble cast give good performances. It's one bleak picture of a possible future. One thing I could not figure out, water was the big issue here, but I never saw anyone eat anything, where was all the food?

Make note of Max Charles who played a kid also trying to survive that Richardson and Stewart kind of adopt. He and Richardson stood out in this cast.

Opening with a lengthy dialogue-free scene, Kendal (Haley Lu Richardson) appears to be the sole survivor of some apocalyptic occurrence that has left the world ravaged and arid. As it turns out, she is one of a handful of characters who are all trying to survive in their sun-stung waterless desert.

Kendal and her sick friend Dean (the wonderfully named Booboo Stewart) are attempting to protect their life-saving well from the wandering evil water baron Carson (Jon Gries) and his band of scavengers, who are attempting to secure all water-giving appliances as his own.

Despite a slow beginning, and the burning feeling that this might just be a catwalk teen-soap, this soon developed into something far more interesting. Richardson is convincing and appealing as Kendall, and even the young actor Max Charles, who could have been precocious as juvenile survivor Alby, is very good.

The finale plays out very much like a Western, with a well-staged showdown between various characters. The ending is low-key in a way that befits the story being told, and the stunning scenery, shot in California, is a double-edged sword: beautiful but deadly. Recommended.