Testament
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Movie Reviews of Testament
Movie Review: So So movie....
Summary: 3 Stars
Perhaps I should have taken an extra star off, but I am willing to be generous.
It's probably me, but as a child of the fifties, I certainly knew more about the effects of nuclear warfare and its its onsequences than the people protrayed in the film.
Nuclear detonations are prety hard to mistake, and everyone that was in my cohort had a pretty good understanding of what fallout was, how to avoid it as best you could, and how to deal with it as best you could. I mean, really; nuclear warfare+dirty gritty dishes left on the table = radioactive fallout. Wash and clean the dishes, or abandon in place. For heaven's sake, people, what were you making your character's think?
So no one takes shelter, deals with potential after effects, or anything. They just kind of mope along, don't do any planning, and just die. Probably just as well. you would not have seen the smart survivors, as they would be alive and somewhere safer.
Two words for you, that would have made a more interesting movie, "Alas, Babylon".
Movie Review: She smiled all through the show
Summary: 3 Stars
I used to work for Lurene Tuttle, an actress in this movie. She played the wife of Leon Ames, who has the only working ham radio in town. There's a scene at their home and Lurene says something about reaching a man in Oklahoma, I think. I haven't seen the movie in years. The only time I watched it was with Lurene, and even tho the subject matter is so terribly sad and disturbing, she smiled all through the show. When it was over, I was ready to cry, but she looked at me and chattered away about the wonderful setting, the costumes, the camera man, etc. etc. NOT a word about the plot. But after being in theater and movies for almost 70 years, I guess she looked at other things..... I didn't even know this movie had been released. I'll had to add it to my Lurene Tuttle collection. Lurene is the red-head in the movie "Niagara," played Jack Lemmon's mother in "Fortune Cookie, " and also in "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken."Movie Review: Flawed view of nuclear war
Summary: 2 Stars
I'm a picky person when it comes the technical aspects of what a movie is supposed to be depicting. This movie has many large holes in it. There is never even a light dusting on the town after the bombs go off. How can the people of the town die from radiation sickness when there is no fallout? In a major nuclear war the sky would be black from ash, dust, and soot, but the sun still shines like it's an ordinary spring day. EMP would typically destroy most electronic equipment, yet things like Ham radios and Speak-and-Spell still work. The town has air raid sirens, but there isn't one old Civil Defense radiation meter anywhere to help warn the people about increasing radiation levels? Nobody in town seems to have ever read a Civil Defense booklet about staying indoors and improvising shielding from household items. Having your son ride around town on his bike without even a dust mask on would have killed him first rather then last.
A real nuclear war would have been far worse then this movie depicts. At least "The Day After" gives some sense of what a nuclear war could do. "Testament" could have just as easily been about a some plague that struck the country. Overall, I do not rate this picture very highly as nuclear war movies go.
Movie Review: Way Over Rated by Amazon Reviewers
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought this DVD based on all the positive reviews, and boy was I disappointed! The story goes nowhere, the kids are whiney brats, and believe me, you'll be GLAD the Dad is only in the first few minutes of the movie. Yes, the mother character is well acted by Jane Alexander, but the dialogue is lame, the plot is dead, the scenes are choppy, the events are predictable, the townspeople are annoying, and there's a lot of crying. A lot. I'd give it one star just to drop this over-inflated 4 1/2 star rating, but thought 2 stars was more honest.Movie Review: Whoops apocalypse!
Summary: 1 Stars
I must have radiation poisoning as this pile of over-sentimental schmaltz had me feeling nauseous and reaching for the sick bag for it's entire length.
I cannot believe the 50 five-star reviews - there's a part of me that's convinced everyone was viewing a different movie. I watched the entire thing waiting for the film that everybody seems to have rated so highly to arrive, sadly it never happened. I know this review will not make me Mr. Popular, but please, even Hallmark would be embarrassed to present this rose-tinted garbage.
There is not enough space here to list all the technical and logical faults but I would have hoped the producers would have at least tried to get some of the basic science right - but no - it seems the budget for an advisor was spent on Martha Stewart.
If you like your end-of-the-world scenarios served overly sweet in sugar coating this is the movie for you. If however you're looking for a realistic depiction of an all-out nuclear exchange avoid this one like ground zero.
The most exciting, and strangely scary, part of the entire film is the heroine grabbing a quick tongue wrestle off the priest - I kid you not.