Em Ruínas (2024)

Um filme pós-apocalíptico bem clichê com cenas de ação e muito gore.

Após um terremoto que colapsou o mundo (do filme), sobreviventes tentam viver em condições precárias devido a escassez de recursos. Grupos violentos raptam pessoas jovens e um grupo, tal qual uma seita religiosa, também está a procura de pessoas jovens prometendo a suas famílias o paraíso em meio ao caos. Mas a verdade por trás desse "paraíso" são experimentos de um cientista louco que busca trazer de volta a vida sua filha morta.

Para assistir a este filme é preciso ter muita suspensão de descrença porque há muitas coisas absurdas no enredo, por exemplo, nosso protagonista não é apenas bom de briga, ele também tem uma força acima da média que me levou a questionar se ele também tinha alguma espécie de mutação. Além de um grupo de três pessoas terem conseguido derrotar um exército teoricamente bem organizado e armado.

Mas gostei que a protagonista feminina, a adolescente que foi levada ao complexo dos apartamentos, não era uma garotinha bobinha esperando para ser resgatada. Claro, o grupo foi resgatá-la, mas não se deixou enganar totalmente pelas falsas promessas e conseguiu resistir até onde era possível aos experimentos do cientista.

Um filme para passar tempo, se você gosta de ação, umas boas cenas de lutas e muito gore. Mas não espere muito além disso.

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Will someone please think of the children!

When your introduction to a movie is a mad scientist and then an alligator wandering in the ruins of the city, you know you are in for a wild ride. Badland Hunters won’t be remembered for its riveting plot but when you have Ma Dong Seok swinging his mighty fists and a giant serrated machete it really doesn’t matter.

Three years after an earthquake that leveled Korea, Nam San along with teenagers Choi Ji Wan and Su Na live in an encampment called the Bus District. Due to a devastating drought, water is the most precious commodity. Nam San and Ji Wan are hunters for the people. They trade meat for whatever their neighbors can spare. A well-dressed group comes to the encampment looking for teenagers. The newcomers promise Su Na and her grandmother all the fresh water they can drink, shelter, and food at the only apartment complex to survive the quake. In a dystopian future when armed men come promising “heaven on earth”, best to be suspicious. It doesn’t take long for everyone to realize that heaven is not all it seems to be when a mad scientist is running the place. Nam San was ready bring hell to the complex to rescue Su Na.

It would have been nice to have some background info on our main characters, but in this sort of movie it’s not overly necessary. Though it stumbled about in regards to narrative, the fights were right on point. Nam San had to take the scenic route on the way to the apartment complex so that he, Ji Wan, and newcomer Eun Ho could battle their way through two gangs. While the story didn’t add anything new to the genre except for maybe the whole “I am the Lizard King” angle, the fights were well choreographed. Most of the hand-to-hand combat was in close quarters and bloody. Very bloody. Lots of dismemberments and decapitations. The big draw to a film like this was watching Ma Dong Seok do his stuff. I love this big ahjussi hitter.

The production values were fairly high though some of the destroyed city sets looked familiar from other dramas and movies set in the dry ruins of Korea. Badland Hunters didn’t set itself apart in this genre but it was entertaining. I could have used 25% more ahjussi hitter. I’m just happy Ma Dong Seok is still making this kind of fun action film at the age of 52. If you are looking for a taut script with new thrilling elements in the ruins of the future, you might need to look elsewhere, especially if you’ve seen a number of this type of movie. But if, like me, you enjoy watching the big guy pummel his way through baddies, even ones with long forked tongues, you might want to give this a try.

26 January 2024

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