oscar-35
*Spoiler/plot- DEF-Con 4, 1985. Several survivor people try to live and socialize in a post nuclear war scenario. Some are good and some are very bad in their efforts.*Special Stars- Lenore Zarin, Maury Chaykin, Kevin King.*Theme- Man must regain his society after the nuclear war to survive effectively.*Trivia/location/goofs- B & W European. *Emotion- A very dark film with amateur productions values for this simplistic plot and franchise genre. post nuclear war society 'what- ifs'. The acting is fine, but the plot gets lost in the very un-lit camera scenes taking place at night. The violence is very gratuitous and bloody. Some sex scenes are un-necessary and look to be shallowly added for box office sales.*Based On- Post nuclear war scenarios.
Matt (Matt-Judge)
800 votes at the time of writing and 4/10? C'mon, this film deserves better than this.If you haven't seen it,please do. There are no fancy effects, expensive sets and highly paid actors, but there is an entertaining story that will draw you in and have you routing for the 'good guys'.Why pulp films, that have ridiculous things like helicopters flying "impossibly" through tunnels, get such high scores whilst films like this are left going dusty on the shelf I will never know.It's not going to win any awards, but it is well worth a watch.6/10
leathermusic
Def Con 4 is one of those movies that is pretty much unique in the world of B grade cinema. First off, why do so many imdbers dislike this? There are thousands, perhaps millions of movies far worse off. The acting and special fx are actually pretty good for such a low budget film. The beginning of the film has a great sense of dread. The music by Christopher Young is awesome! There is some over top emoting from the lead actors that is slightly lame, but overall a good relic from the cold war. This may be one of the more underrated Canadian sci fi movies of the 80s, although much of the plot and characterizations goes way lame in the second half. In summary, it's a good bad movie that is more good than bad.
Theo Robertson
I haven't seen DEF-CON 4 for several years and if it's as bad as I remember it I hope to never see it again . The story is grim and lacks credibility . A space station witnesses the third world war and a trio of survivors wait for the radiation levels to drop so they can return to Earth , and when they return they find that the survivors are well armed barbarians where it's survival of the fittest This movie doesn't concern itself with the intellect of post apocalypse authors like John Wyndham or John Christopher , it's trying to be similar in genre to the likes of MAD MAX etc . The problem is that it doesn't have the budget to do so . We see no devastated cities and most of the action takes place in North American woodland which is an obvious budgetery descion on the part of the producers and not a creative one . There probably wasn't much of a movie to start with but if there was the exploitive scenes take it down to an even lower level . For example the hero walks through woodland ( Did I mention most of the action takes place in the sticks ? ) and comes across a bunch of survivors who are carving up a roast dinner - A human leg ! There's another scene with a severed arm and a couple of other gory scenes . I know that the likes of 28 DAYS LATER and THE OMEGA MAN suffer from gaps in logic but at least they're entertaining and enthralling unlike this contrived unsympathetic mess
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