Funny but (quite!) sick business it all is.
It scratched a loads of popular elements of Sci-Fi and Fantasy genres (in more then simple and funny context, given a quite crazy story) like: apocalypse, zombies, 'mythical' heroes/warriors (inter-stellar and tattooed, please), secret cryptic passages, puzzles, The Chosen-Ones, occultism, so forth so on.Īll mixed to the extreme! So, the script is a piece of work, giving here a credit to the author. It was loaded with strong comedy elements wrangling around from the very beginning. I believe actually beneath driven by real current extreme religious, political, radical and other global discords. In short: eclectic modern and extreme parody. Unlike another lame zombie-apocalypse crash, for me it was much more - too interesting and rich in many 'max-mad' aspects. But, though being caught "off guard", I immediately adapted and tried to enjoy. When I wrote this the genres were still not defined on IMDB (under the title, as usual), so I guess that you will be more guided than me. Clearly no one involved was afraid to color outside the lines. Still scratching your head, wondering "is this just bad, or so bad it is so good". The film is so absurd and yet so much.! It will have you shutting down in act one, or awe struck at the screen to the end. Overall "Apocalypse Riding" is a full "fence-strattling" situation. Oddly enough though, considering how important it obviously was to dance around the porn-parody concepts, I would have found it a better movie if the writer and cast would have went all in.
The low budget was utilized pretty good which gives "Apocalypse Rising" a better chance at being enjoyable. I know right!? - all things to make you wanna check it out. The CGI is quality and overall the special effects work in this crazy train ride through time, space, religion, aex, and the zombie apocalypse. Not that there isn't some cool, entertaining stuff in this film, "Apocalypse Rising" just demands that you not only suspend disbelief but dive fully into insanity. Each sequence is trying to be as big and as epic a moment as the last, but unfortunately they seem absurdly strung together and the intent gets overpowered by the ridiculous. There is no real dialog that allows for a natural flow from moment to moment.
The scenes seem stripped of substance, and feel chopped up. But you know the saying "If everyone is Han Solo then no one is Han Solo". Every scene and every word muttered is meant to invoke the spirit of past b-movie, cult classic, drive in movie moments we all fawn over. Wolk clearly lives the life of mixed sci-fi storytelling. Obviously though only the moments considered by genre fans to be the epic ones. "Apocalypse Rising" is a mash-up of every sci-fi, barbarian lore, future funk house, b-movie, kitchen sink story imagined between the 70's and now.
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