I have to say that I started this film figuring already in advance that it would be the perfect kind of film to eat in front of (meaning I wouldn't need to pay much attention as I ate serenely).
Well hell. I was so right I actually didn't need to look up from my pasta. Or from my phone. Or from playing with the cat.
It's too bad, the idea could have been funny, like in the film "Bounty Killer" except here it just ends up feeling like a cheap try (really, everyone is dying of poison air and water and the 'authorities' are worried about people driving cars? seriously?). Maybe I missed the big picture, I'm sorry, I got lost in the bad acting, bad costumes and bad special effects (no, let's be honest: there weren't any).
Seriously speaking though, the main character was probably written to be an 'anti-hero' (what a shocker, it seems like everyone is following that trend) except that the writers don't seem to have looked up the definition. An anti-hero doesn't lack all morals, they simply go about their world saving in an obscure, unconventional way usually motivated by a dark past. Ok, so they got the dark past somewhat covered but the rest was just rush-write bullcrap. One moment she's this big bad, unemotional killer who doesn't care for anyone but herself and the next she's crying out "Nooooooooo!" to the ditzy young blond whom she's just met and who (litteraly ten minutes ago) just turned on her and got her beaten almost to death?
Here is my final words for this film: "Whyyyyyy?"
Review of Scorched Earth
