The Lost Future (2010)

This review will contain some minor spoilers:I will often scour Netflix or Amazon prime video for something to watch whilst I am cooking. That is how I came across The Lost Future. So I started watching it and it passed the time, it wasn't a great film but nor was it awful. It had plot holes (how did the father learn to read? How does being able to read make someone instantly a chemist? What kept the mutants at bay for so many generations?), but it was enjoyable enough as background material.And then I realised that this is a SyFy movie. This changed my view substantially - SyFy seem to have built an entire business out of making The Worst Movies Ever. And for once they have failed - whilst not great, this is leagues beyond their normal quality. Reasonable production values, nice locations, good effects (many SyFy movies will take their meagre effects budget and spread it across the entire film, resulting in 1990's level CGI, in this case a large amount of that budget was concentrated into a handful of scenes, vastly improving their quality) and a script that isn't complete garbage.Sean Bean adds greatly to the film. It's also notable in that this is an example of that incredibly rare beast - a film where Sean Bean does not die. He is certainly the best of the cast and drags the whole film up at least 2 stars on his own. The rest of the cast are okay - not brilliant, but hey, this IS SyFy and once again they are well above established quality for the company.So, there we have it - a film that just kind of exists, neither being brilliant nor awful. Great background material, mediocre if you give it your full attention. 6 stars.

As I've used this site to build up my library of movies i feel obliged to warn you. This is my first review, and i only write this to warn you against; poor performance from actors (poor acting), poor story and poor effects. Sean Bean is always good and thats why i gave it 2 stars. I bought this garbage on blue ray and i'm tempted to sell it on E-bay for half price, don't waste your time watching this and for heaven sake don't buy it.Much better in the same genre is "the postman" and "the road". Those movies got fabulous acting, a good story and are worth a place in a respectable collection.

In a post-apocalyptic world, a group of survivors led by Uri (Tertius Meintjes) and the ancients are organized in tribe, in a primitive society without technology and lives in a small village in the Grey Rock National Park surrounded by beasts that transmit a disease that transforms the victims in mutants. Uri's son Savan (Corey Sevier) is the best hunter of their tribe and successor of his father, while Kaleb (Sam Claflin) is the best tracker and together with his sister Miru (Eleanor Tomlinson), they are the only survivors that can read and writer. Their father Jaret believed that it might exist other survivors outside Grey Rock and left them alone to wander around the area. Kaled is a dreamer and secretly loves Savan's woman Dorel (Annabelle Wallis). When the beats surprisingly attack Uri's hamlet, a group runs to a cave and block the entrance with logs. Kaleb saves Dorel from a beast and sooner Savan meets them. Out of the blue, the stranger Amal (Sean Bean) approaches to the trio and invites them to join his family, composed by his wife Neenah (Jessica Haines) and their son Persk that lives in the outskirt of Grey Rock protected by a river. Sooner Amal discloses to them that Jaret had found the formula of a yellow powder that cures the sick persons. However, the evil Gagen (Jonathan Pienaar) had stolen the powder and kept with him. Amal, Savan, Kaleb and Dorel travel together to find Gagen and bring the yellow powder to their tribe.Yesterday I saw "The Lost Future" and based on the 4.7 IMDb User Rating, I found it an underrated adventure. The story is entertaining and Sean Bean and the unknown actors and actresses have good performances. The special effects are decent and fortunately I did not give credit to the bitter users that were not able to appreciate a pleasant adventure. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "O Futuro Perdido" ("The Lost Future")

I have mixed feelings about this post-apocalyptic tale of making extra yellow dust to prevent people turning into mutants and, thereby, breaking the power of an evil tyrant who looks like Nicolas Cage but isn't.On the one hand, it is handsomely photographed, excellent South African location work, decent special effects (especially cityscapes), reasonably executed action sequences, tolerable acting, and generally a reasonable sense of production values put on the screen.On the other hand, it is the most execrable twaddle, and it suffers from what I call One Million Years BC Syndrome - scruffy, mucky men and beautifully coiffed and made up women (with excellent dental work, by the way - glad to see that well-equipped dental surgeries and first class dental training survived the apocalypse).