World of the Future (film, 2018)

At the beginning of the film, the announcer says that mankind has made great strides in the development of artificial intelligence and robotics , which led to a new world war , as a result of which the surviving people are fighting for survival in the post of the apocalyptic wasteland, while the surviving machines were hidden.

A commander ( James Franco ) and his gang of bikers find an android girl named Ash ( Sookie Waterhouse ) in the settlement, which has a high-tech laboratory. The commander activates her, while it turns out that she has multi-colored eyes (one is blue, the other is green), which glow when she receives commands through a handheld console. He gives her the order to kill one of the bikers, which she successfully performs.

At this time, in a fertile place called Oasis, a young man named Prince ( Jeffrey Wahlberg ) sets off for heath in order to find a cure for red plague, a deadly disease that his mother Koroleva ( Lucy Liu ) is sick with. His only clue to the search is a faded postcard of a place called Paradise Beach, where rumored to be the cure.

The prince and his friends, who volunteered to accompany him, stop in the wasteland in the small town of Love Town, which employs sex slaves led by a pimp named Snoop Dogg . There they try to lay a route to Paradise Beach, but they attract the attention of Raiders. A friend of Prince Rico ( Ben Youssef ) drives one of them away with a pistol, a rare and valuable item in the wasteland. Big Dad meets the travelers and invites them to meet someone who can help them, but this turns out to be a trap planned by the Leader: Ash captures the Prince and kills his friends. The commander forces the Prince to take his gang to the Oasis. On the way there, Ash, knowing that the Commander will kill all the locals, decides to save the captive.

During the escape, Ash receives damage in the abdomen, from which the fluid now flows, but she and the Prince manage to escape from the chase and find shelter, where she soon turns off. The next day, he makes a stretcher and drags Ash through the wasteland until he finds the ocean . His hopes are crumbling when they are captured by another group of bandits living in a ruined seaside boarding house.

The local leader, Narcobaron ( Milla Jovovich ), offers him medicine, but it has a price: she injects him with a syringe with a drug , and he experiences hallucinations and faints. Meanwhile, Ash is engaged in Lei ( Margarita Levieva ), a mechanic taken into slavery, she repairs and activates it. The drug lord examines Ash and realizes how valuable it is.

The next day, the Drug Baron forces the Prince to engage in a gladiatorial battle in the pool with one of her henchmen, saying that his mother’s medicine is in the stomach of his rival. Only by defeating him will he achieve his goal and gain freedom. The prince manages to win and get the medicine, but Narcobaron says that Ash will stay with her.

In the evening of the same day, Lei goes to Ash’s cell to free her, but the attempt to remove the chains was unsuccessful. Ash accepts his fate as a slave, but decides to repay Leia for her mercy and makes love to her . The next morning, the Drug Baron discovers them together and, in a fit of jealousy, orders Ley to erase Ash's memory of this event (since the Drug Baron was attracted to the cleanliness of the android) and reprogram it to become her mistress's mistress.

The prince, having left the boarding house at first, comes back and tries to make his way back. At this time, the Leader and his gang makes an attack on the complex. Under the influence of drugs Narcobaron enters into a duel with the Commander, who eventually kills her with a Prince’s pistol. At the same time, the Prince is trying to help Lei and Ash quietly escape from the attackers, but they were all caught. The warlord tries to regain control of Ash using the remote, ordering her to kill her friends, but instead she kills his people and then wounds his machete . Lei, Ash and Prince run off on a pair of Raiders motorcycles. The commander pursues them, but Ash kills him.

The three of them reach the Oasis, but at the entrance to it, Ash tells the Prince that she is leaving to find others like herself. The prince returns to his mother and gives her medicine, while Ash travels with Leah to the wasteland. The scene during the credits shows how Ash returns to the Town of Love and frees the sex slaves who decide to take revenge on the Big Daddy of Love and attack him.

In May 2016, it was announced that James Franco , Milla Jovovich , Twin Shadow and Margarita Levieva will play in this film, co-directed by Franco and Bruce Thierry Chung, financed by Dark Rabbit Productions and the AMBI Group, and the producers will be Monica Bacardi, Jay Davis and Vince Jolivett ^[1] . In the same month, it was also announced that the cast had been joined by Lucy Liu , Method Man , Suki Waterhouse , Jeffrey Wahlberg and Snoop Dogg ^[2] .

Filming

The filming period lasted from May to June 2016 ^[3] .

The premiere, organized by Lionsgate Premiere , took place on May 25, 2018 in the United States ^[4] . On June 14, the film was released in Russian distribution ^[5] .

Editions

The film was released in the USA on DVD and Blu-ray on July 10, 2018 by Lionsgate Home Entertainment ^[6] .

"World of the Future" received negative reviews from film critics. According to the Rotten Tomatoes aggregator , the film has 0% positive reviews with an average rating of 1.6 / 10 based on 7 reviews ^[7] . On the Metacritic website , the film has a rating of 10 out of 100, based on 4 reviews, which is characterized as “overwhelming hostility” ^[8] .

Frank Sheck of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a negative review, writing: “A low-budget, post-apocalyptic science fiction story that does not succeed as a tribute or a parody of such obvious sources of inspiration as the crazy Max series, The World of the Future is just as original, like its name ” ^[9] . Ignatius Vishnevetsky from The AV Club also gave the film a negative review, writing: “An unconventional approach to directing Franco and Chung, when almost the entire film is chaotic, and filming with Steadicam is made with a clumsy zoom, it only moves away from the already simplified plot” ^[10] .