Scorched earth movie
Generations later, mankind has finally re-established a rudimentary society, in an attempt to pick up the pieces that continue to blister in the sun. A Cinedigm release.Summary: Earth has suffered an environmental collapse the air became dangerous to breathe, the water became toxic, and billions of people died. MPAA Rating:R for violence and some languageĬast: Gina Carano, John Hannah, Ryan Robbins, Stephanie BennettĬredits:Directed by Peter Howitt, script by Kevin Leeson, Bobby Mort. But can this cast and crew survive the ignominy of “Scorched Earth?” Which, as everybody knows, will survive the apocalypse. I could swear they were playing for marshmallows. The locations are mostly Canadian deserts, quarries, ghost towns and the ruins of a marine (boat) wrecking yard. The performances are stock and unsurprising, with Carona showing a lot of teeth in an era when most everybody else’s are brown from the lack of Crest. Say what now? Fighting words, in any event. One and all are stuck with rehashed exchanges such as “Where you from?” “What do you care?” and lines like “I think perhaps I’m just an outlet for all this misplaced rage,” and “It’s a fine line between ignorance and arrogance.” Director Peter Howitt (“Johnny English,” “Sliding Doors”) has seen better days.
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Ever.Ĭarano isn’t the only one whose presence here denotes hard times in the movie biz. That’s where Melanie (Stephanie Bennett) fits in, all slinky and sexy because otherwise, the locals would notice that’s not her voice coming out when she sings the blues. Jackson’s town has a silver mine which needs slaves and a saloon that needs a torch singer. She’ll just steal the hat and scarf of the black-toothed harpy she just brought in (dead, not alive) and pass herself off as an ally to get close to Jackson, before grabbing him and taking him back to face rough justice and collect her silver bounty. The never-ending search for powdered silver, useful in the post “Cloud Fall” atmospheric collapse filter masks, means she’s hellbent on catching the biggest outlaw of them all, Jackson ( Ryan Robbins). No wonder the “Doc” ( John Hannah of “Four Weddings and a Funeral”) at New Montana (“Population, 24) is her only friend. She’s not responsible for their safe-keeping, getting them to “civilization.” Maybe she inadvertently frees hostages here and there, kills off a quarry up to no good.
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The only difference between her and the cretins she hunts? “I’m still above ground.” “Belching” pollution in the few fossil fuel vehicles left is a no-no, punished by “the authorities,” who pay Gage her bounties. Until the star needs her close-up, of course. Their biggest crime? “Fossil abuser.” As in, they’re rapists, kidnappers, murderers and slave traders in a world where the air is so foul everybody has to wear filter-masks, even the horses. She plays Atticus (HAH!) Gage, a bounty hunter in the post-climate collapse future who wanders the wastelands hunting down outlaws.
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But this post-apocalyptic dog of a picture shows her racing into “over the hill so I’ll just use guns” territory, something Chuck and Jean Claude and Jackie only got around to when the stunts got to be too much. A D-movie like “ Scorched Earth” is enough to make one wonder if maybe Rousey isn’t making the smarter play.Ĭarano can still, at 35, deliver in the fight scenes.
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Rousey’s movie-star-pretty predecessor in the MMA spotlight may have made a splash in the movies with “Haywire,” and had her shot at playing a Marvel villain in “Deadpool.”īut the movies are starting to hit the “diminishing returns” side of the ledger for her, these days.
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Mixed Martial Artist Ronda Rousey’s recently announced move to pro wrestling had to give Gina Carano pause.