Really Surprised!

Did you people see the same film I saw?

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

In 1991, with the Earth ravaged by the apocalypse, lone wolf Richard Harris tries keeping one step ahead of the Ravagers, a mad band of human-hunters (led by gaunt, crazy-eyed Anthony James) who have already killed Harris' wife. Art Carney is a former Army sergeant who has a hidden surplus of instant food and automatic rifles; Ann Turkel is a street-smart girl (with shiny, shampooed hair) who suddenly goes all weepy when she falls for Harris (he tells her there's no room in his life for her, to which she replies, "I'm good for you! You'll see!"). Together, they attempt to find a safe haven known as the Land of Genesis. Adaptation of Robert Edmond Alter's novel "Path to Savagery" is undone by a sloppy presentation and a disappointing performance by Harris (wrapped up in a scarf like a nomad and addressing everyone with the same condescending elocution). This is may be the most substantial movie role eternal-villain James ever got, but the picture is such a dud that his opportunity here to break out of bit parts isn't worth savoring. *1/2 from ****

I only write reviews of movies with low rating, which actually are not that bad. Give them a chance!I don't know why this film has such a low rating ( 4.6 at the this moment ) when it is actually really cool. Good story, acting, costumes, environment design, good presentation of post-apocalyptic world. I love movies about apocalypse and post-apocalypse and that's why I wanted to see this one at first place. I don't regret it at all! I enjoyed it and you probably will to if you like these kind of movies. Maybe the story is slow and becomes boring in few places, but that is not a reason to have 4.6 rating.6/10

One of a handful of post-apocalyptic films I've tried to track down over the years.(The others being Captive Women, Aftermath, The Last Chase and The Quiet Earth.) Recently, I viewed the film and found it to be quite entertaining as well as a bit weird. The "Ravagers" roam the Earth for the sole purpose of disposing of as much of the population as possible. Rewarding work? The "Flockers" are kind of new-age hippy types who party in cavernous caves. They are a strange lot and are in need of a constructive kick in the pants. Fred Karlin's eclectic score shines during this passage. Richard Harris, the hero by default, has a simple delivery of his lines. There is a cool scene involving a blind lawyer, who has been tossed out of his community and is later stoned to death in front of Harris. The movie was shot in Alabama of all places. The locations chosen are desolate and appropriately barren. Harris finds Art Carney in an abandoned military silo and army base of some kind. Carney's girth, remember there is little food, is explained by his ample ration stash. Rod Stewart's ex-wife, Alana, makes a brief appearance before she is quickly dispatched to heaven by the Ravagers. Everyone in the film follows Harris' lead in search of a city called Genesis. Strategically, Woody Strode played professional football and would have been a better blocker for the Flockers than the boozer, Harris. Just a plan.

Richard Harris and Alana Stewart (George hamilton's ex, and at the time Mrs. Rod Stewart) plays couple trying to survive the future where earth is pretty much dead. Now there are these normads called the ravagers that roams and kills because they are your typical bad guys. The leader is character actor Anthony James. They even play undressing the manniquin (later stolen by MAD MAX). James and his ravager's attack Harris and Stewart, and kills Stewart leaving Harris for dead. Harris in return comes back and kills James' gay sidekick making James go on a revenge trail. Harris goes on a quest for a better life meeting a messed up old army guy (art Carney), Ann Turkel, Woody Strode and Ernest Borgnine (who takes 70min to appear only to disappear in 81min). Cassel plays a nothing part as a blindman who gets stoned. The film looks real cheap and it looks like it was cut to get a PG rating. The film is very padded, but looks slopply edited near the end. In fact James seems to be gaining more new ravagers which each new scene! It's ironic that this was Hollywood's answer to the apocalypstic theme, as this and DAMNATION ALLEY killed the apocalypitic theme craze, and it took a Aussie film MAD MAX 2 3 years later to get people interested in this genre once again, causing a grut of Italian rip-offs! But nothing beats the cheeziness of the original "Hollywood" incarnation The Ravagers!