Canada, United States · 2018
Rated R · 1h 33m
Director Peter Howitt
Starring Gina Carano, John Hannah, Ryan Robbins, Stephanie Bennett
Genre Action, Science Fiction
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A bounty hunter named Atticus Gage tracks down criminals in a post-apocalyptic Earth.
Equal parts 1960s-style Spaghetti Western pastiche and ’80s-style “Mad Max” knockoff, Scorched Earth is the sort of divertingly hokey post-apocalyptic B-movie that would have amused undiscriminating Blockbuster Video renters a generation ago, and now might pass muster as the pilot for a weekly SyFy series.
Los Angeles Times by Michael Rechtshaffen
A decent premise — and a game Gina Carano — get left in the dust kicked up by Scorched Earth, a dull, draggy post-apocalyptic western set in the not-too-distant, environmentally toxic future.
RogerEbert.com by Peter Sobczynski
The end result is pretty much what you might expect—a work so desultory that you wonder how all involved managed to work up the energy and enthusiasm to make it to the set each day.
Carano can still, at 35, deliver in the fight scenes. But this post-apocalyptic dog of a picture shows her racing into “over the hill so I’ll just use guns” territory, something Chuck and Jean Claude and Jackie only got around to when the stunts got to be too much.
A secret experiment. A deadly virus. A fatal mistake.