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One of my all time favorites.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

US Army Captain Nick Preston (Dolph Lundgren) is a relic left over from previous wars. He is left in Fort Edenberg, a military junkyard. Then an earthquake measuring 9.5 hits and California is separated from the U.S. Preston, Marine Sergeant Lucky Simcoe and Air Force Captain Sarah McBride are the only survivors on the base. They are joined by a disparate collection of civilians. There is an epidemic called Q Fever. There is a shortage of water. The prisoners at Nanwong have taken over led by Jesus Carrera.This is a bad B-movie even considering its intent. The apocalyptic world is just cobbled together with random problems. I don't know what a plague has to do with an earthquake. Even a 9.5 wouldn't turn the world into a dystopia. Dolph Lundgren is not the best actor but he tries. There is some action but it's not shot well. This is a low grade B-movie no matter how you add it up.

This movie is not what I expected from the DVD's cover or from some of the reviews posted here. There have been countless post-apocalyptic, Mad Max clones and rip-offs but this movie differs from most in that it takes a lot of time to get to the running around and shooting scenes. Time which is spent on character and atmosphere.The story is just as full of holes and "what the hell are they talking about?" moments as any other cheapo SF flick (for instance were we really expected to believe that that fine, healthy horse had been stuck in that box in the middle of the desert for weeks!? And I'm not sure the whole weird disease, pain relief ward run by desperate murderers and psychos thing made any sense at all.) But there was so much other weirdness floating about that I got the idea things might be explained / resolved by the end. They weren't, but the air of weirdness: the sudden strange Christian Voodoo rain magic thing, the cons standing in the blazing sun drinking their own urine and watching (worshipping?) their Hispanic leader Jesus on massed TV screens, the almost dreamlike quality of some of the scenes carried me through to the end.This may not be a great movie (or even a good one) but it sure as hell is a lot more interesting than 90% of the cheap, explosion driven, crap that masquerade as SF movies out there.Incidentally if you watch this on DVD check to see if there is a "making of" featurette. It's pretty standard fare but look out for the producer(?) trying to hide his astonishment they could find decent actors in Israel. His hair is incredible. Scariest thing I have seen all week. It's like Arch Hall's in Eegah!, only more so. I hope it was a wig.

A movie for all Dolph Lundgren fans to enjoy. Not that bad for being extremely low budget. I thought they had an interesting concept with an earthquake turning California into a island. I also enjoyed Lundgren's narration throughout the movie. It's also well worth it to watch the perky and sexy Rebecca Cross (as Candy) dancing around this movie. Why hasn't she been in any movies lately?[SOME SPOILERS]I didn't understand why people were dying and had bubbles forming on their faces and on the top of their heads. Like that crazy milkman with the mutated goats. That was never explained in the movie. But the movie did a good job keeping you interested in the characters. Towards the end I thought Candy was killed but I was very relieved to find out that she was alive and being held prisoner. That really made the mission into the prison with all those crazies more heart-pounding. If your a fan of Kevin Costner's "The Postman" (I know there aren't many of you) you should enjoy this small-scale post-apocalyptic adventure.

Being a big fan of Rebecca Cross meant I had to see her in this movie. She was terrific in the movie. The movie was average only. This is her best role yet. Seeing her in the movie was of course best part of the movie, and worth the cost of the rental.