This is such a pointless exercise... Nothing rings true in this shallow film. A post-apocalyptic world that leaves you totally disinterested. This war not only killed most people and made savages out of them, it also seems to have damaged everyone's brains; the characters act illogically, say nothing when they talk, and seem to live by rules that even mentally-deranged amoebas would object to.
When the black guy mentions someone called "Rem" a couple of times, Harris asks him, "Who's this Rem?". The black guy answers, "Rem is Rem". And Harris says "Oh." Oh, well, thank you very much; that's just the answer I was looking for. What kind of bull**** dialogue is this? It sounds like a comedy but isn't.
The stupidest aspect, however, is this idea of "the rats" (violent, brutal humans) following Harris throughout the whole film just because he killed one of them out of revenge for them killing his girl! They actually leave their base - their city - and follow him around during the whole film. How they manage to track him down in the end is anyone's guess; after all, Harris didn't tell anyone where he was going and couldn't even if he wanted to because he himself didn't know where he was heading towards. Supposedly they followed his trail by finding remnants of food, bullets and what not - what baloney.
The "rats" are lead by a skinny guy who, in reality, couldn't assert himself as leader of a pre-school basketball team, let alone a post-apocalyptic wild bunch such as these "rats". When an attractive woman decides to follow Harris on his way to the elusive "Genesis", he dislikes the idea of her tagging along because, as he puts it, he is a "loner", blablabla.
When they find Borgnine's ship (the Rem character) Harris gets into a very silly dialog with him over how the ship is run and so on. Then, at nightfall, the "rats" attack the ship, the ship blows up, the ship's inhabitants escape, and find themselves on the shore the next morning staring at Harris as if he were the new messiah or something. Then the black guy says something about "Genesis" and Harris tells them they'd found it. Brilliant. And that run-of-the-mill soundtrack doesn't help, either.
When the black guy mentions someone called "Rem" a couple of times, Harris asks him, "Who's this Rem?". The black guy answers, "Rem is Rem". And Harris says "Oh." Oh, well, thank you very much; that's just the answer I was looking for. What kind of bull**** dialogue is this? It sounds like a comedy but isn't.
The stupidest aspect, however, is this idea of "the rats" (violent, brutal humans) following Harris throughout the whole film just because he killed one of them out of revenge for them killing his girl! They actually leave their base - their city - and follow him around during the whole film. How they manage to track him down in the end is anyone's guess; after all, Harris didn't tell anyone where he was going and couldn't even if he wanted to because he himself didn't know where he was heading towards. Supposedly they followed his trail by finding remnants of food, bullets and what not - what baloney.
The "rats" are lead by a skinny guy who, in reality, couldn't assert himself as leader of a pre-school basketball team, let alone a post-apocalyptic wild bunch such as these "rats". When an attractive woman decides to follow Harris on his way to the elusive "Genesis", he dislikes the idea of her tagging along because, as he puts it, he is a "loner", blablabla.
When they find Borgnine's ship (the Rem character) Harris gets into a very silly dialog with him over how the ship is run and so on. Then, at nightfall, the "rats" attack the ship, the ship blows up, the ship's inhabitants escape, and find themselves on the shore the next morning staring at Harris as if he were the new messiah or something. Then the black guy says something about "Genesis" and Harris tells them they'd found it. Brilliant. And that run-of-the-mill soundtrack doesn't help, either.