5 Years After the Fall (2016)
Starring Zorba Dravillas, Nicole Garrett, Gabe Meacher
Directed by Brent Nurse
We’re talking about the end of the world here, people, and the idea that the haves and the have nots will eventually fracture into a destructive non-linear entity, causing more death and ruination for those simply trying to survive. Sounds like quite the big-budget undertaking, doesn’t it? Not in this case, however. Directed by Brent Nurse, 5 Years After The Fall is a film that while not exactly drowning in allocation, still manages to serve up a moderately entertaining premise.
As the past 5 years have elapsed in this film, we’ve learned that society has eventually crumbled, and the severe lack of food has caused even more of a rift between those who’ve been protected by massive retaining walls and the starving scavengers left on the outside whose only hope of survival has deteriorated into cannibalism. Bleeding-heart Jacob (Dravillas) truly thinks that it would suit mankind to start allowing some of the starving folk access to the inside, for nothing more than letting them eat to survive… big mistake, pal.
While on an expedition one day, Jacob becomes stranded and is forced to take up shelter in a modified crack den that’s been armed to the teeth by a heavy-hitting drug boss, and Jacob’s reluctance to kill intruders is quickly challenged by a lady named Grace (Garrett), who was cuffed at the wrist when he first stumbled upon her, and yes, all of this is actually happening in the film.
So we’ve got a passive pacifist type and an ass-kicking mysterious heroine, a band of ravenous flesh-eating lunatics roaming the streets, and a pissed-off drug kingpin who’s not all too happy about someone infiltrating his crack house – I’d say this is going to be quite the eventful apocalypse, wouldn’t you?
Nurse uses numerous scenes of blistering violence and some pretty interesting plot swerves to keep the viewers guessing. It’s a fun ride despite the lower-than-low budgeted looks and feels of this one. Performances are on the upside here, especially Dravillas’ portrayal of the bookish nerd reluctant to pop a cap in someone’s ass, and the idea that this could potentially become a money/no money, us vs. them scenario in the future is a somber thought indeed. In the meantime feel free to settle in and check this one out, and remember to stockpile your dry goods because you never know when you’ll need to keep them at the ready.
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