What can I say! I love low budget gritty sci-fi. I think this movie would make a great double feature with Dark Star and Mad Max. Everyone is so mean and self interested. I really liked the portrayal of the screamers, with such a low budget I think it was very wise not to show them on screen. I sometimes prefer movies that imply things instead of explaining everything. Topeka is such a strange place too.

First of all, you gotta accept the telepathic dog, once you get past that premise you should have a good time. The banter between man and dog is quite hilarious at times. When the second goal of our heroes besides surviving is hunting babes, it proves amusing yet interesting. Underground people are very reminiscent of vault dwellers and any influence for Fallout is good enough for me. Best ending line ever, no exceptions.

Laughable attempt at post-apocalyptic dystopia. Probably the best setting for a budget as meager as this, but they still can't pull anything out of it.

Some people find this low-budget adaptation of a famous Harlan Ellison story brilliant but it's always left me rather cold -- and from what I've heard, Ellison doesn't like it much either. Grim but often funny, with Johnson hitting just the right note of postadolescent angst.

pieces of it can be rather boring and it has fairly bad production value, but it has a plot with great potential and a fantastic ending.

It feels like an elaborate homage to A Clockwork Orange with enough dark humor in it to make it a pleasant movie-watching experience.

Overrated post-apocalyptic futurism roughly midway between Zardoz and Mad Max. Maybe slightly above average for sci-fi, but that really isn't saying much. The moral of the movie seems to be dog > woman but maybe it's just me.

"A cult classic with consistent characters that put extreme practicality and misogyny above such mundane things as manipulative 'love' (and that's putting it mildly)."

Creates a believable and bizarre world on a low budget but ends just as it's gotten interesting. I'll give it points for not having the dog's voice revealed to be all in Don Johnson's head, a twist I was convinced was coming.

There's a lot of remakes out there that are just unnecessary, but this is a movie that desperately needs a remake. A shot for shot remake, because this has the best post apocalyptic plot ever. But the quality of the movie makes it almost unbearable. If you can trudge through the poor quality, poor sound, and slight slowness you'll be in for various great adventures leading up to the best ending in movie history in my opinion.

TERRIBLE production values and pacing, but a FANTASTIC performance from all involved. Bleak and hopeful at the same time.

Odd, odd, odd. A film of two halves with what seems like a lot of unexplained detail. Not as bad as it promises to be from the opening 20 minutes but still, a few neat ideas aside, not worth much as a film. Haven't read the book.

Just read the short story, which is excellent. The movie... ugh.

Underappreciated film full of great dark humor.

pretty cool

Quite good (and faithful to the story)--except for that Benji dog. Even if that's how it was described by Ellison, they shoulda changed it (it just won't play on the screen).

This is so nice surprise... Movie is so cynic sometimes, have great dialogs.... Great little trash movie...

The movie takes a rather large turn maybe halfway through, and essentially contains two fully imagined worlds. Funny stuff.

Great film.

On the edge of being a great movie.

This is the best thin Don Johnson will ever do. A REALLY strange vision of the future, especially the people who live in the bomb shelter

A true love story in the most honest sense; perhaps the only on to ever make me cry. And you've gotta love Jason Robards in anything he does.

"The execution doesn't quite enliven the premise, but there's still enough enjoyably offbeat moments here to make this one worth digging up."

Has lots of flaws but I kinda liked the relationship between Vic and Blood. Also the ending is just brilliant.