The movie has had huge potential, but fails to deliver due to it's limited format and (probably) budget constraints.In the beginning, hints are being dropped that peoples "balls were rotting off", adding gravity to the pregnancy, the whole movie revolves around. Unfortunately, there should have been more emphasis on communicating that vital plot detail for the movie to make sense.I liked the characters a lot, and I think - aside from the wonky routine the twins show in the end - the overall acting is good. There just wasn't more in the script.Aside from the badly communicated plot, the movie suffers from a huge pacing problem. It just crawls along, doesn't build much tension, and then all of a sudden tries to climax with 15 minutes of run-time left.This could - of course - be something that probably works great on stage, but translates quite poorly onto film. I'm also curious if much of the movie's problems couldn't be solved by a different cut, but we might never find out.Anyway - if you happen to like post-apocalypse as a genre, and feel the need to have seen everything on the subject, this is - by far - not the worst movie you'll come across.

Nicely done, Twenty Years After (2008) Directed by Jim Torres, who also co wrote it with Ron Harris. Spoiler ahead, It's a post apocalyptic tale, somewhat picking up the plot from Children of Men (2006) Sarah, played by Azura Skye, is pregnant, her husband was killed. A lone voice, broadcasting from a portable transmitter, is Michael played by Joshua Leonard, Sarah's desire is to have the child born in a "Better Place" than the war torn landscape, Michael and Sarah join a rag tag group, Reg E Cathey plays Samuel, the entertaining mystic. There are a whole slew of other characters, mostly going along for the ride. Some are intent on kidnapping the newborn baby, these are the bad guys, we can tell because they are never filmed with warm colors.I find it odd saying that in this movie, the plot does not matter, it is the impression that is of importance.The gritty last gasps of a world, that might be beyond the ability to clean up it's own act after us humans foul things up, (Shades of Wall-e 2008) The tone is on par with the other apocalyptic film, The Road (2009) By the way, sad to say but all these other films I mention, were all better. One thing I liked, The plot device of using a broadcast, to set the scene for the upcoming action, This was a device used to great effect in the Walter Hill 1979 classic, The Warriors. it works here as well. Another thing I liked, the use of music was effective. not so much a great score, but rather a evocative sound design with an emphasis on acoustic. One could stretch and mention biblical parallels, The woman is Sarah, she is comforted by Samuel who tells her that her child is going to be special. The plot played with the idea, but in the end dropped it for a more broad and less mystical "Special" There are a lot of nice touches throughout the film, by no means a thrill a minute blockbuster. What did I not like, over convoluted plotting, I never did find the "bad guys" back story that interesting. production of cigarettes, or at least of markets to sell tobacco seem to be taken for granted, as well as the availability of gas. and electricity. If you can put these points on the back burner and just enjoy the flow, you might find yourself entertained. Looking at the reader reviews on IMDb. it seems there were many who did not like this movie. They gave it terrible reviews. Not I, I give it Seven out of Ten "True to it's vision", Stars .

worst movie ever. it was so bad i just can't get over it. the story line made no sense, 10,000 lose ends and horrible script writing. just awful. don't waste your time watching it. seriously i sat there for 95 minutes on netflix watching this movie and was totally dumbfounded by the awfulness of it! like what was with the Dr. guy? like what was the point of him? he had no purpose. the fight scenes were so bad i laughed (and i don't do gore at all) the one bad lady doesn't seem to have any motive for her actions and she is just a waste of time. this story line seemed really promising and they could have done so much awesome with it. but they wasted it and just butcher it... -1/10... just unforgivably bad.

1. Acting: Deplorable, except the black guy know-it-all with the funky trashed ear 2. Editing: atrocious. As the movie tried to play through 3 to possibly 4 story lines, I literally felt like I was given ADHD because I could not physically sit through the end of the movie. The blue bottle tree becoming yet another uneventful side story was the last straw. That and the fully intact F150 in the cave with no wheels??? I mean c'mon! The KICKER is that this movie was shown on the redbox cover display as if it belonged up there with the "Best of '08" selections. You want to see a great movie from this year (or 07???) that will stick with you for many, many weeks? See no country for old men, and this time TLJ does NOT steal the movie. You'll see. But back to my limited synopsis. This movie sucks so bad it HAS to get at least ONE razzie!