I love this movie so much

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

The people who gave this the great reviews it didn't deserve must be friends of the filmmakers. Done on the cheap, the acting is bad, the story is dull and predictable (I think they were going to make a zombie movie and changed their minds), and the scientific accuracy is laughable. These people out in the open when the bombs dropped, aren't going to survive even 30 minutes, let alone days. Where were the firestorms? the great winds that the release of nuclear weapons causes? These were just many of the gaffs. This was like a low budget version of The Day After. Want to see a truly great terrifying nuclear war film? Get a hold of Peter Watkin's The War Games or Threads. As for this, I wish I could just forget I've seen it.

There are many unanswered questions in this movie or as I like to think of them "plot holes". After a semi-promising couple of minutes at the start the movie quickly becomes a small scale lock in hide from the zombie things outside suspense drama with no suspense that leaves the audience wondering not "What's outside!?" but instead "Why is any of this happening?". If you like shiny movies where the characters lack motivation & do many stupid things to move the plot forward, this is the movie for you. You will have the unarmed lead character getting shot with no warning for apparently walking up to a strangers porch in search of shelter. You get the joys of never quite working out what any of the characters were actually doing in the middle of nowhere to get into this position in the first place. You get to wonder why any of the nukes were fired to start the whole film off. These questions and many more will fail to be answered in any meaningful way. This is a movie based on bad plot lines & has a wholly unremarkable script. The only reason this gets 3 stars is because the production was good & most of the actors were able to transcend the shoddy regurgitated script to show some of their talents, even though it would appear the plot was worked out by Spongbob Squarepants best friend.

I want to give it a higher rating. They got so many things right. Script, direction acting all well done. The top review had a good summary, except that he thought some engineers would be able to tell him where the movie was wrong about radiation. They wouldn't. One of the few times that the cinema ever got remotely close, and this by far was the closest. The things some might want to quibble about would go the way depicted if people didn't know what they were doing. Which is the case here. No one for a change is given the role of brainiac of the universe. They really don't know what they're doing. They also don't have a prepper/survivalist who has been training for this contingency to help them out. Just some regular folks who are trying to deal. Supply issues are glossed over, but so are most character introductions because in the real world people don't run and announce their profession/helpful hobbies and quirky humanizing interests to those they've known for a long time, and even less so to strangers. A+ for apocalypse vs humanity. A- for humanity survival needs. A for not hand holding the nincompoops who need every little detail explained to the. Although with all the good effort, and work in this wrongly maligned little gem, somehow it never gels to be more of a movie than an apocalypse movie. In that niche genre, where it doesn't intersect with action (cough The Road Warrior cough) it's the best you'll find.

It seems like whenever Edward Furlong needs to pay child support, we end up with about three of these stinkers per year. Is it really all that bad? Pretty much.'Aftermath' is about a group of strangers (original) locked up together inside of a basement during a nuclear apocalypse. It's supposed to be a realistic view on how we would act during such a tragic event. Why this needs a 90 minute runtime is beyond me, because the character development still ends up being awful, even though the entire film is based around that factor. When the action finally does set it, it ends up being entirely unnecessary. Why not just end the film the way you began it? Did we really need a group of zombie hillbillies that have no clue what the hell they're doing? The film wouldn't have been any worse.Random Ramblings Of A Madman: Looking at Monica Keena for 92 minutes will never be thought of as a negative, and she makes the time fly by, but your film's success should never be based around that factor alone. As for Eddie Furlong - Those 'T2' paychecks no longer cover life's responsibilities, so unless his local dealer decides to have a clearance sale, we should be seeing more Furlong 'greats' in the near future.