Road Wars, The Asylum Does Mad Max

Again we turn to our friends from The Asylum.  A post-apocalyptic epic in the style of 'Mad Max.'  Handsome hunks with attitudes and babes with similar attitudes.  A virus wipes out mankind except for a few. Juiced up hotrods fitted with machineguns, harpoon guns, and flame throwers.  Sounds like Interstate 95, I know.  This is a good one which also has elements of the zombie-apocalypse subgenre.  Today we look at 2015's "Road Wars," directed by Mark Atkins.

A virus has wiped out civilization leaving America looking like a landscape from "Road Warrior."  Bands of survivors who look like biker gangs dot the landscape and battle one another for resources.  They also battle the virus-laden population.  The virus looks like rabies and has changed the infected into frothing lunatics hungering for human flesh.  Dallas (John Freeman) leads a small gang who seem like good sorts.  With them is Susan (Jane Hae Kim), a doctor who wants to develop a serum.  One day, while scouting, blonde babe Nakada (Chloe Farnsworth) and her BF Kevin (Phillip Andre Botello) meet the infected and Kevin is bitten.  Ignoring protocol, Nakada refuses to kill him and instead ties him up.

Enter an amnesiac, Thorne (Cole Parker).  Who is he? We don't know. An inch from death, Dallas' group nurses him back to health.  He seems like a good sort...but how would we know?  Susan believes Thorne is one of few humans with an immunity to the virus and the cure or vaccine can be made from his blood.  This makes Thorne the MVP of the camp.  Uh oh...the infected keep attacking and Dallas' gang also has more run ins with psycho biker gangs.  A bigger problem emerges, the psycho gangs seem to know Thorne and respect him.  What happens next will be a series of twists and turns...and the plot will thicken.

Who exactly is Thorne, and might he be one of the bad guys?  Will Susan be able to develop a cure for this rabies type virus?  Will Nakada ever let go of past loves and blow Kevin's head off?  This is a good one. There are some nice battle scenes in the post-apocalyptic landscape.  Nothing will be standard in this film and the question of who are the good guys and who are the bad guys is hardly a simple one.  Enjoy a thoughtful and vicious post-apocalyptic film from The Asylum and watch "Road Wars."