"Hell" is actually a play on words as it has not only its special meaning in English but also a meaning in German language where it can be translated with "bright". This film indeed shows us a dystopian planet Earth where a few survivors are in desperate search for gasoline and especially water as the planet has drastically heated up in a near future following some dramatic events that are sadly not further explained in this flick. The movie follows four characters that have to work together to survive on their journey through this post-apocalyptic world.
A surprisingly positive point about this movie is the technical aspect. Especially the special and the light effects are quite professionally done despite a low budget and manage to put you in a deserted and desperate place. Add a very well done soundtrack to this and you have a very authentic and highly atmospheric backbone for this film.
The acting is far from perfection but still acceptable for this kind of movie. The growing emotional conflicts between the different characters and a couple of intriguing figures that appear throughout the film keep you seated in front of your television and make you want to know the end of all these events.
Sadly, the story is rather weak in this promising film. Once the characters are introduced, there isn't anything all so spectacular going on. The movie definitely has its lengths and many events are predictable if you know this kind of genre a little bit. There are no twists after all, no truly emotional moments that would leave you impressed and after a promising start the film gets quite mellow and even the ending is somewhat disappointing. That's quite sad as this movie could have been at least a very decent alternative post-apocalyptic movie with a couple of good ideas. As the ideas are running low after a while and as there are no gripping passages, the flick rather feels like a drama and not like a horror movie, a thriller or a worked out science-fiction flick.
The further the movie progresses, the less original it eventually gets. That's why I would consider you to stay away from this as the film gets more and more disappointing. Watch this only if you know and like some of the actors that all get a lot of screen time and dialogues or if you're intrigued by the good special and light effects that are clearly the highlight of the movie. Apart of the technical aspect, this movie remains overall only of an average quality at best.
A surprisingly positive point about this movie is the technical aspect. Especially the special and the light effects are quite professionally done despite a low budget and manage to put you in a deserted and desperate place. Add a very well done soundtrack to this and you have a very authentic and highly atmospheric backbone for this film.
The acting is far from perfection but still acceptable for this kind of movie. The growing emotional conflicts between the different characters and a couple of intriguing figures that appear throughout the film keep you seated in front of your television and make you want to know the end of all these events.
Sadly, the story is rather weak in this promising film. Once the characters are introduced, there isn't anything all so spectacular going on. The movie definitely has its lengths and many events are predictable if you know this kind of genre a little bit. There are no twists after all, no truly emotional moments that would leave you impressed and after a promising start the film gets quite mellow and even the ending is somewhat disappointing. That's quite sad as this movie could have been at least a very decent alternative post-apocalyptic movie with a couple of good ideas. As the ideas are running low after a while and as there are no gripping passages, the flick rather feels like a drama and not like a horror movie, a thriller or a worked out science-fiction flick.
The further the movie progresses, the less original it eventually gets. That's why I would consider you to stay away from this as the film gets more and more disappointing. Watch this only if you know and like some of the actors that all get a lot of screen time and dialogues or if you're intrigued by the good special and light effects that are clearly the highlight of the movie. Apart of the technical aspect, this movie remains overall only of an average quality at best.