Bad imitation of I Am Legend. Wait. The warning thingy said this review is too short! So... well, it's a borng waste of your time, even when you can understand the British accents.
Wasteland
2013
Action / Drama / Horror
Wasteland
2013
Action / Drama / Horror
Keywords: post-apocalyptic future
Plot summary
Wasteland is set in a world ravaged by a deadly virus and within that world is Scott Miller, a man who, against the odds, is trying to carve out some sort of life. The deadly infection that has ravaged the globe has almost totally wiped out the human race and Scott must spend his days finding water, food etc. Whilst trying to find uninfected people by radio, he must also avoid the many dangers that lurk in the outside world, while he waits for the return of the love of his life, Beth.
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I Am Legend... bad imitation
Zombie genre: acting class tedium: BUT ideal double bill to Schwarzeneggar's 'Maggie'!
Even for the zombie fan completest, WARNING: this is mostly just an acting class watch, as more or less completely carried by main 'star' Shameer Madrabrakus*, and latterly, by being joined by a Jessica Messenger also then injecting her side of the acting practice bit, too, as to be his reason to keep on, love interest.
Since as a film, and a 'zombie' one at that, this is just tedious, as director / scriptwriter not only has used virtually just one location (a marginally interesting when in outside shot, sorta shack) but then more or less only develops the story through Shameer (as a Scott) merely chatting to a never seen other over an intercom system (he's an electrician and briefly shown dabbling with it to paste over the plot hole of how any equipment still functions in a, ah, well, 'wasteland', see...).
Possible fun just might marginally be had from persevering to the end to see the selected extras do their zombie 'acting' - (the elder plump chap amused me, lumbering aimlessly about in the melee, front and rear shots provided by director Wadlow) - afore his version of the standard zombie siege and hands break into the refuge trope: and Rachel Benson playing 'Lolli', a supposedly a violin playing sixteen - (she looks well into her twenties!) - year old with a possibly deliberately creepy relationship inference from companion 'Max' (Mark Drake) is .. well; creepy, indeed!
But the REAL reason I'm introducing you so to what would otherwise be more or less (yup: again!) totally pointless to invest your time to watch, is that actually, this will make a pretty decent bottom half of double bill companion piece to recent Arnie Schwarzeneggar effort in 'Maggie' - (director Henry Hobson / writer, a J. Scott): so much so that to the latter, I wouldn't be in the least surprised if scriptwriter Wadlow felt as though he should take out a law suit for pure plagiarism!
* As billed in this: latterly has become 'Seepersand'.
Pretty good for a low budget zombie movie
Of course this ain't World War Z when it comes to special effects, locations and highly paid movie stars, but this low budget film actually ain't bad. It's at least convincing in making us believe in a post-apocalyptic world. I liked the atmosphere of the abandoned streets and houses. The acting isn't that great, but the main lead is charming enough to get us through the story. And you can see that the film was made with lots of love of the zombie genre. I think some people are too hard on productions like these. You can't compare them to The Walking Dead, Army of the Dead or even Shaun of the Dead. It was a good attempt at making an entertaining movie and I think the makers succeeded 6/10