The Domestics

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I'm only 20 minutes in and I'm hoping the wife gets killed. The husband is her doormat. Let me explain... A post apocalyptic world run by murderous gangs but the couple are living in a relatively safe area. However to 'save their marriage' they're going on a road trip to see her parents 😐. Because that's your concern when your trying to stay alive right? Your marriage. Holy jayzus! She constantly needs reassurance from her husband and her mother she's trying to contact and visit.. Now she's crying saying she doesn't want to die and wants to go home...what a surprise. And she wears headphones listening to music when things get stressful and gives her husband/chauffeur/bodyguard/lifesaver attitude.. a pure liability. She shouldn't be allowed outside the house never mind cross a war zone.

I'm not a fan of post apocalyptic movies by any means Mad Max being the exception ( I hated The Road ) it's a genre I find almost always a bit depressing, but I had so much fun watching this movie! Just sit back empty your brain and enjoy, it's a 6 from me.

I don't know anything about the director Mike P. Nelson except that he was clearly inspired by movies that I loved when I was young. There is no doubt in my mind that he was inspired by The Warriors (1979) from Walter Hill and by Mad Max (1979) from George Miller. By The Warriors for the narrating radio voice that warns about the different gangs operating in different sectors, and by Mad Max for the apocalyptic view of the world and the customized vehicles. I couldn't stop thinking about that while watching the movie and apparently I'm not the only one since I read another review thinking the same. I loved The Warriors, and I still do after all those years, so to me it was easy to like The Domestics, because in a way it brought back those memories. But The Domestics was just inspired by it, for the rest it's a totally different movie and story. I can get that people don't like it. Those people would probably not like The Warriors and Mad Max either. But if you did like those I'm sure you will like this one as well. The acting was certainly not bad for a so-called B-movie. I'm aware that the story doesn't make much logic sometimes but I was not expecting that either with this kind of post-apocalytic story. I's just a bit of easy entertainment, the kind I like everynow and then.

Stumbled upon this gem by accident. And boy, am I glad I did. After reading most of the reviews to this movie I thought this would end up being the classic low-budged,predictable and overall lame horror flick. It ended up being the exact opposite. Amazing storyline, excellent set designs and props, hilarious moments. A huge shoutout to the director and producers. Though to be fair, the main cast's acting wasn't exactly Class A. If you're into this genre, then this movie is a definite must-watch for you!

The movie should be called "two people who don't realize the world is now dangerous & act like idiots..oh, and the guy keeps getting his gun taken away"

Not sure how anyone can rate this 9 or 10. It's not godfather or shawshank. It's an average film that's good for a Sunday afternoon hangover. No more and no less.

I see what they were going for here but somehow it falls completely flat. It all looks like it could be a gory fun ride with suspense and tension, but I just found myself constantly thinking, "ok how much longer til it's done?" I really wanted this to like this and it seemed like it had all the ingredients for that to happen but in the end it just seemed to be about an awkward bad marriage that somehow overshadowed everything else that was going on. Unless I was totally wrong and this film was supposed to be about flat one dimensional dysfunctional relationships.

More plot holes that I can count, weak premise and unrelatable characters, the list of flaws for this is endless. And the unrelenting march of unexplained details was ridiculous: Every world government decided to kill off their population simultaneously? Gasoline still works after 900 days? The wife talked to her mother on the radio every day despite them being almost 200 miles apart and using what appears to be a CB with a maximum range of about 5 miles. Did you people research anything before making this garbage? I'm getting too old for this type of lazy story telling.

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.