Fast Color (2018)
Set sometime in a future in which natural resources like water have become scarce. Gugu Mbatha-Raw plays Ruth, a recovering drug addict on the run due to the fact that she just might be...
Tagged: dystopia
The Road Warrior (1981)
The follow-up to 1979’s Mad Max is called, very simply, Mad Max 2 in its initial release in Australia and other countries where it proved lucrative. However, in the United States, where it was the...
I Am Mother (2019)
I Am Mother is a thoughtful but taut science-fiction thriller from director Grant Sputore, who, along with screenwriter Michael Lloyd Green, concocted this futuristic tale with a more modest budget in mind, given that...
The 5th Wave (2016)
Chloe Grace Moretz stars as Ohioan teenager Cassie Sullivan, who we first meet in a post-apocalyptic world fighting for her survival. We flashback to how this world came to be, starting with the appearance...
The Maze Runner (2014)
YA adaptations are really beginning to make me Y-A-W-N. Yet another attempt to mine from a series of sci-fi dystopia Young Adult novels in order to try to replicate the box office success of...
Divergent (2014)
Comparisons will immediately be drawn between Divergent and The Hunger Games, as both are dystopian sci-fi film series based on a trilogy of young adult novels written by women, featuring teenage female protagonists in an action-thriller scenario...
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
Catching Fire is the much-anticipated follow-up to the wildly popular The Hunger Games, based on the young adult book series by Suzanne Collins. With the new film comes a new director, Francis Lawrence, who gives us...
After Earth (2013)
M. Night Shyamalan’s downward spiral with critics seemingly started with The Village, only for him to respond by making himself the hero and a film critic a heavy in his next film, Lady in the Water,...
Aeon Flux (2005)
Needlessly dull, Aeon Flux is a film that diffuses any claim to entertainment value by trying to have things both ways as an action/sci-fi flick. Those seeking action have to sit through a convoluted plot...
The Island (2005)
An exciting science fiction premise (possibly lifted from the awful 1979 MST3k lampooned flick, Parts: The Clonus Horror) gets dumbed way down for mass consumption in The Island, the latest film that Michael Bay ruins by...