Director: Sergio Martino
Starring: Michael Sopkiw, Valentine Monnier, Anna Kanakis, Romano Puppo, George Eastman
SYNOPSIS
In the near future, following a nuclear holocaust, no children have been born for 15 years. With humanity on the brink of collapse, one man is given a mission: to go into the hostile ruins of New York and rescue a woman believed to the the one remaining fertile female.
REVIEW
So, does the above synopsis sound familiar? One has to wonder whether or not P.D. James watched this movie before writing the original novel of Children Of Men. OK, probably not! Inevitably, this movie isn't quite as classy or as innovative as the 2007 adaptation of that novel, though it has much to recommend it.
Directed by giallo master Sergio Martino, this is one of numerous New York based, post-apocalyptic movies that followed in the wake of both Mad Max 2: Road Warrior and Escape From New York. Among such company as Bronx Warriors and The New Gladiators, this is probably one of the better movies in the cycle, with Martino's direction being swift and the script imaginative on the typically low budget that keeps action relegated to sewers and warehouses for the most part.
The cast is reasonable for this kind of fare, with the main trio of heroes being very good and the always welcome George Eastman's appearance in the final act made me smile quite a lot - anyone familiar with video nasties and other Italian movies of this period will know his fact for sure!
Of course, it suffers in other ways typical of the period. The dubbing's fairly bad, the acting is passable at best with most cast members relying on charisma rather than acting chops. it all ends with some rather silly twists, but again no better or worse than similar films of the era.
Not Oscar material, but a great little movie if you fancy a no-brainer time-waster on a lazy afternoon...
7 / 10
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