Apatros Review Ep-0031: The Last Patrol [2000]

AR-0031: An interestingly daft direct-to-video post-apocalyptic B-actioner from veteran director Sheldon Lettich & starring Dolph Lundgren as a military officer who has to protect a small group of survivors in what remains of California after The Big One's arrival from a prison full of inmates who use the bodies of the dead as fertilizer for their opium crops & who have resorted to drinking their own piss.

The only reason Lundgren & Lettich signed onto this project was on the condition the writers rewrote their stupid script, but they refused [they were also the producers] & the Swedish Beefcake was trapped into a no-win situation. But at least he gives a good performance here, as do the rest of the cast [surprisingly enough]...

"The Last Patrol" isn't a very good movie - in fact it is pretty damn bad - but it has at least one scene that will give you something of a shock [in the climax, but I won't spoil it here - watch this review for that particular piece of info] & the one positive I can give a rather low-rent post-apocalyptic flick like this one is that it has a rather nice Christian morality to it, so this one has an appeal to families who want something safe for their kids...

My Grade: D [Bad]

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