The Domestics (2018)

Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

I'm really beginning to think that a lot of the reviews on IMDB are by the filmmakers family and friends. I don't see how anyone could rate this silliness beyond a 1. A little movie review. Recently I watched 2018 Post-Apocalyptic movie called "The Domestics." Let me be honest here, it should have been called The Dumbestics. It's everything I hate in a Post-Apocalyptic movie. Most of all, it's a movie where there's no logic at all. This is a problem with most films of this type. First, we learn that the US Government has gassed most of the populace, killing off 97 percent of the populace. 97 percent! Yet there are all kinds of gangs running about. There's no kind of timeline, so we don't know how long things have progressed. The main characters are a husband and wife whose marriage is on the collapse. So to save it, they head to Milwaukee where her parents are. They run into and get out of many problems - problem is - none of it's believable. In a space of about four days, wife goes from nimrod barely able to survive, to valkyrie. There's a mystery woman who saves them time and again before she... no that would be telling. Finally, like most films that really annoy me - it just ends. There's also an annoying as hell Radio announcer (much like the 70's film Vanishing Point). It's just a dull mish-mosh of ideas with very little thought behind it. It's like a paint by numbers of how NOT to do a post-apocalyptic movie.

I have no idea what the low rating people were expecting. It obviously is not an Oscar movie and doesn't want to be. It also did not want to have some grand plot. It's just a nicely done action and gore move in a post-apocalyptic setting. Also, for the review complaining about lack of chemistry between the leads and the wife's unrealistic transformation: the wife clearly said they were getting through a divorce when "it" happened, and that she had been heart broken. Her character at the beginning of the movie is clearly depressed and not facing the realities of their world, she looks half "asleep" and afraid all the time. I found her change in personality to be quite natural for someone who was awakened by the brutalities they experienced, who realized she wanted to live and that she still loved her husband a lot and was prepared to act to defend that, and her awakening was completed when the last pretense was shattered at the end, the hope that her parents might still be alive.

I watched the trailer and read all the reviews comparing it to The Warriors (plus Purge and Mad Max) and got super excited for this. But despite decent acting and quality production, the story is pretty much garbage and completely predictable with nothing original in it. I wouldn't even say that the comparison to The Warriors holds any water - they show you about 3 gangs in it, plus a couple of guys running around in sheets calling themselves the Ghosts. And of course what would you do if you lived in a post-apoc word with killers in animal heads running around trying to kill everyone or sell off the women as prostitutes? Get naked and have sex in a car without checking the surrounding area - duh! Seriously, some ridiculous stuff.

If you enjoy shooting, good acting with a good storyline then this is it. No trailer nor poster can do this film justice. It flowed beautifully and was one of those one in a hundred movies that's a pleasant surprise.