Future World (2018)

Directed by James Franco & Bruce Thierry Chung. Starring Jeffrey Wahlberg, Suki Waterhouse, James Franco, Milla Jovovich, Margarita Levieva, Snoop Dogg, George Lewis Jr., Lucy Liu. [R]

Indifferent post-apoc-crock, scraping the bottom of the eyesore barrel, sees wasteland scrapper Wahlberg (an instantly forgettable protagonist, even scene-by-scene) dragging his way across the grungy sprawl in search of medicine to save his ailing mama. He encounters a cut-rate psycho warlord called Warlord (Franco), a cut-rate hammy druglord called Druglord (Jovovich), and a murderous, malfunctioning android called Ash (Waterhouse)—it’s hard to tell if the filmmakers were sloppily attempting an homage with the name of the latter. An ugly film (and not in the way as intended), filled with roving camera shots that search for focal points as if they were as elusive as Waldo himself, and production values as assembly line-generic as the movie’s title. Even by the low standards of Mad Max rip-offs, an interminable experience. Liu, despite being billed high on promotional materials, only appears briefly at the beginning and end; Method Man also cameos.

15/100