Monday, October 26, 2020

Now Showing: After

After
Genre: Action/Adventure/Sci-Fi
Director: Peter Berg
Writer: Meirad Tako
Cast: Jamie Bell, Nat Wolff, Jade Pettyjohn, Niles Fitch, Matt Smith, Michael Madsen

Plot: The earth is dying, the whole world turned into a waste land, the sea is barely exist and so is the nature.

Conrad (Jamie Bell), a young man is walking alone in the middle of nowhere, he fell to his knees and pass out. Not long after that, a Jeep-like suv come and stop near him. An old man get off the car and take Conrad with him.

Conrad woke up on a bed, weak. He look around, wondering where is he right now, the old man came into the room asking his condition, he told him that he found him pass out on the ground. he asked him where is he going. Conrad is speechless, he tells the man that he doesn't remember anything and where is he going, the only thing he know, there is a little bit memory in his head, a girl, telling him to keep walking south. Rex is nodding, understand. he invite him outside to have a bite.

In the dining room, he meets Charles (Nat Wolff) a geek, wearing headphone while playing tablets. he is a cheery person, while eating, he keeps talking about a film Mad Max and telling Conrad that their world is pretty much like Mad Max but more peaceful and empty, nothing happened, no weird people killing people with big cars. Conrad just nodding, he doesn't actually know anything about what Charles is talking about.

After eating, Conrad was planning to continue his journey before he was stopped by the old man, he tells Conrad that if he is not mind, he wants Conrad to bring Charles with him, he tells him that Charles have been dreaming to have an adventure, and also he is very smart so he might be helpful on the way. Conrad accept it, he doesn't know what the world have for him in the future so a company is more likely to help him. So, Conrad bring Charles with him, the old man give them his car, Charles seems so happy and they left to the wilderness. On the way to nowhere, Charles show Conrad a map that he found years ago, he point out there's supposed to be a big, big, BIG city 3 days away from here. Conrad seems to remember something and he felt a bad headache but soon disappear. 2 days passed, and surprise, surprise, they are out of gas and force them to continue on foot, not really far from them, they found a car and a girl (Jade Pettyjohn) unconscious, they try to wake her up, and she did, weakly he told the boys to save her friend that was taken by a group of soldiers. There was a tracker on the car, Conrad take the wheel while Charles try to give her some food and water to consume on the back seat, a couple of hours past they arrive at some kind of cave with metal walls, they can hear crowds inside it.

Charles said it feels like the underground city in old Anime called Votoms, he feels something's fishy. Conrad again, feel a headache as the place doesn't look strange to him. after thinking for a while, they decided to enter the cave.

It was a silent road, they can still hear crowd in the distance but they crowd doesn't feel to become nearer but it keeps become farther than it was before until it become a dead silence, only the car's engine that can be heard. Charles again keeps referencing things that Conrad doesn't understand, the silence continue until it was broken by exploding tire, the front tire exploded because someone shoot it from behind, Conrad look through the mirror and see 2 people with a hover-board with a gun on their hands and shooting them. Charles starts to panic and his panic he take out things from his bag and made some kind of "Emergency Gun" and hand it to Conrad, he adjust his position and shoot a steel projectile straight to one of the them, knock him. the other guy stop to check his friend and Conrad take the advantage to full throttle the car. when Conrad feels it is far enough, he decided to go on foot, Charles try to argue with him, but he tells him, if they keep driving the car, the sound will tell the enemy their position, while their hover-board doesn't have a sound it only give them disadvantage. Charles shuts his mouth up, and carry the still concussion girl on his back.

They arrive to some kind of a dead city inside of the cave, they were walking before a laughing voice made them run to hide, Conrad peak from behind a wall, it was some guys wearing the same outfit as the people that shot them earlier. They stop near their hiding spot to sit and talk about a "traitor", they talk about a member named Conrad, what a coincidence. Conrad remember that he was running with a girl, but it was still a blur. when the people start to separate Conrad take down one of them and told Charles wear the outfit and blend, he also told him to gather some information and food. Charles refused but he was afraid of Conrad so he accept it. He wonders with the outfit and it looks totally safe, he gathers with the other to eavesdrop some information but he made a mistake to not salute a person with a different outfit, he was drag and interrogate. hours pass and Charles has not yet come back, Conrad sit near the girl when suddenly she woke up, she seems shocked and asked Conrad why is he here. Conrad doesn't know what to say, he tells her that he might have an amnesia since he doesn't know anything. She sigh, she tells them that they know the secret of the Leader of Via City, the city they step on right now, he was an alien.

Conrad seems to remember it, it was this Girl that's with him but they did not run, they were on a car, with another person, A boy (Niles Fitch), they were rained by shooting by the soldiers, the boy said that he only have a little power left to use and they decided Conrad have to go, and tell the Nation Leader about the real reason why Earth started to go worse and worse. The Girl told Conrad to keep walking north and tell send the people their message, The Boy concentrate and with his power Teleport Conrad out of the cave. Conrad back to the moment after realizing, they, are, fucked. he was about to do something when many foot step enters and in no time they were surrounded by many soldier with their Leader Marlion (Matt Smith), he drop Charles to the ground, dead. he claps. he applaud Conrad's bravery to go back, he needs a little bit of revenge anyway, he told his men to back off a little bit. Conrad is ready to rush, but the Girl stop him, Marlion's head starts splitting open and from it came out another head, an alien head with a tentacle-like blade as a hair and starts attacking them. Conrad push the girl away and dodge the blade, the blade swing wildly, Conrad can't keep up with it and eventually gets stabbed and pass out due bleeding. He woke up tide up in some kind of tube, and was greeting by a much older man, the leader of the city, Vlacos (Michael Madsen), he welcome him with laugh, he didn't expect Conrad will be back, he wonders how did Conrad escape. Near him is The Boy, many wire attached to him, he is a robot!. it shocked Conrad. The boys tells him through telepathy that he would try the teleportation thing again, and hopefully it would have the same result. Conrad agrees, and just like a deja vu, Conrad disappear , leaving Vlacos blabbering behind.

Conrad on the same place from the start, he can't remember anything but he remember a boy telling him walk forward and so he did.



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