After a nuclear war. Films, books, games and other products on the theme of the imminent nuclear holocaust were released a damn cloud. Specifically, “Consequences” did not throw their five cents into the general piggy bank, but the tape is to some extent not hopeless.
While the two astronauts were traversing outer space, a local nuclear eke occurred on Earth, as a result of which most of the population went to the other world, and the survivors mutated into creepy monsters. There are “normal” people left, but most of them are represented by the gang of psycho Cutter, who is very cynically dealing with the remaining “baiters”. The astronauts, meanwhile, land and, marveling at the changed landscape and the skeletons of former skyscrapers, were involved in the confrontation between Cutter and good survivors.
I must say, in places the film resembles, you will be surprised, a video game. All games are about a sad future at once. Judge for yourself - the Glavheroes also scour the streets littered with garbage, obtaining weapons and food, occasionally fighting off mutants. One of the characters learns about everything that happened from the audio recording (in many games, the plot or side details are revealed this way), and sometimes something like an Ejection happens, as in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Of course, it is ridiculous to say that most of the games were inspired by this film (well, yes, the picture with this rating is only inspiration to look for), but this is where all these details are collected in a bunch.
I did not like the fact that in peaceful scenes, the characters begin to philosophize, speaking with quotes from books with wise sayings, but not at all as in real life. This in the general context of the tape looks commendable, but ridiculous, clumsy and simply boring. A lot of questions can be presented to the post-apocalyptic future created by the authors of the universe, which sins with unanswered questions and inaccuracies. In principle, this applies to the whole scenario - how after three shots from a shotgun on the legs, the assistant of the chief villain manages to run and jump like a saiga?
But there are good scenes here. Yes, good final disassembly of one of the main characters on the basis of criminals, which is a low-budget sub-prototype "Commando" (the hero knocks everyone, villains can not get on it, but willingly cobbled themselves). But that's not what I mean. I'm talking about scenes of Cutter's atrocities, which are very bloody, brutal and cynical - that the scene of the execution of a group of men who are literally turned into mincemeat by firearms, that the raids of the Cutter gang on a bunch of peaceful people, in which even small children will be killed. And in general, Cutter turned out to be a textured bastard - thanks to Sid Haig, who is known to fans of modern horror as Captain Spalding from the films of Rob Zombie.
Quite a good movie with a sad and depressing post-apocalyptic atmosphere, but at times too boring and embarking on incomprehensible reflections.
6 out of 10