westsideschl
Still another post-apocalyptic Earth w/the bonus of a "Red Fever" virus to finish them off.
Still another biker group w/black clothing and weird head/face masks dirt riding the deserts in search of victims.
Still another ill-prepared community at an old petroleum facility with lots of kids running shelter skelter and one old defenseless person to protect them - ughhh! The raiders of course are quickly upon them like foxes on rabbits.
Still used cheap clothing/props trick of using lots of light colored fabrics everywhere for the good guys/gals.
Conclusion: A total been-done-before, and just as cheaply, ripoff, non-creative, grade school level production. The name actors must have had a spare day or two and needed the money.
vidange
I just signed up to make justice out of these unfair critics from the hopeless Marvel generation. Franco's Future World is a great B movie. It believe it deserves an 8 in its category for its direction, great photography and EXCELLENT EDITING. It's been a while I didn't enjoy a B movie like that.
adamlee-72024
James Franco as an actor, I believe is above good, not great.
But as director and acting in his own movie: Future World?
Comes to this: I fell asleep 3 times, vomit about 5 times,
and had 7 seizures. The 2 stooges who wrote the script, Bruce Thierry Cheung, Jay Davis spend the night smoking pot and watching Mad Max, Resident Evil, and the Cure. What that says of these 2 stooges: No Imagination and basically, they used past ideas. And because they have such low IQ, the result was; well you know what it was.
Now, James Franco, I always sought of him as an artist. My question to him, and to the producers, did you guys, at any time during this work, realized that you were directing, acting and producing such a piece of garbage????
cruise01
Future World (.5 out of 5 stars).Future World is no Mad Max but it tries to be. It is kind of like an experimental mad max movie. The story and concept takes place in the future. In a wasteland, were wars destroyed humanity. There is android like humans that are rare to come by. A red fever that also wiped out humanity. And majority of guns that do not work cause of bullets drying up. And people use knives, machetes, and spears as weapons. And people are either living in a desert forest or being enslaved in a sex club or in a broken down building by the low rising sea and high on drugs. The film follows Prince (Jeffrey Wahlberg) who is out in the wasteland searching for a cure for his dying mother Queen (Lucy Liu). Lucy Liu spends all her screen time in bed rest. With a bed outside in the desert. A weird setting. Then, Warlord (James Franco) raids a facility and killing innocent people and steals an android Ash (Suki Waterhouse). He takes control of her and commands her to do killing for him. When, Prince comes across Warlord in a club were Love Lord (Snoop Dogg) is a pimp. Prince escapes with Ash, when she is able to take control of her system and disobey the commands that Warlord makes. On a wild goose chase away from Warlord and his biker gang. They come across Druglord (Milla Jovovich) were she offers a cure. But with a price of keeping Ash. The film is just horrible in every way. Disappointing that James Franco co directed this. He started out promising with a great comedy movie The Disaster Artist. This film fails at everything. Terrible performances. Action sequences are dull and bad. The fight scenes felt like they are still rehearsing in a drama school stage. The motorcycle chase scene looked like a bad dirtbike commercial as they drive over desert landscape and hills. James Franco was a wasted talent. He is better than this. Not sure why he chose this project. Milla Jovovich tried to have fun playing a drug lord. But her performance was too much of her overdoing the crazy drug addict. Lucy Liu was in bed throughout and seemed bored. Suki Waterhouse beautiful as she is and trying to be a huge action star. Her talent was wasted in this film. And Jeffrey Wahlberg was dull playing a tedious character. The film is a mix up of other better apocalyptic films like Doomsday, Mad Max, and Blade Runner. Doomsday was still terrible but it is considered a masterpiece compare to Future World. Those films are way entertaining and better than this. Overall, Future World is a horrible film. Action and chase scenes are boring. The performances are tedious. And the concept and plot tried to be so much but was terribly scripted and directed.