血战沙漠

2009年，当麻纱绫（户田惠梨香 饰）和濑文焚流（加濑亮 饰）相识的前一年。在美国FBI学成归来的当麻被分在警视厅公安部公安第五课未详事件特别对策系，接受组长野野村光太郎的直接领导。此前不久，某大型石油企业高管接连被人杀害，死者的心脏无一例外都留下被人用手捏过的痕迹。显而易见，这一系列事件和所谓的SPEC持有者有着极为密切的联系。与此同时，石油企业高管Diablo（大杉涟 饰）高薪聘请神秘SPEC持有者一十一（神木隆之介 饰），企图阻挡神秘的SPEC杀手。一十一，这个日后与当麻和濑文有着不解渊源的难缠敌手将当麻视作杀害父母的爆弹女，之后更斩杀了当麻在美国结识的好友Nancy。
　　SPEC宏大篇章自此拉开序幕，决定世界命运的重大事件也进入了倒计时…

　　汤玛斯（大卫•鲍伊 David Bowie 饰）和其他人看起来并没有什么不一样，但其实，他是来自另一个文明高度发达的星球的人类。汤玛斯原本在他的星球里有着自己的家庭、亲戚和朋友们，一次他发现了地球这颗充满水的星球，出于对水的迷恋，他离开了自己那个缺水的星球，来到了地球。在这里，汤玛斯利用他所掌握的先进技术创办了公司，很快就成了百万富翁。在地球上呆的时间长了，汤玛斯开始想念自己原来的星球、原来的家，但地球对他的诱惑实在太大了，汤玛斯最终将如何选择？

2023年，美国新政府所推行的“人类清除计划”迎来了第六个年头。剑走偏锋的极端政策，旨在抑制持续上升的失业率和犯罪率，在此期间却也有越来越多的无辜之人遇害，而富人们则斟好杯中酒，脑满肠肥欣赏甚至以看似高贵优雅的姿态参与一年一度的屠杀狂欢。在大屠杀即将开始之际，面临分手的情侣谢恩（Zach Gilford 饰）和莉兹（Kiele Sanchez 饰）的车在路上抛锚，他们慌乱不安地寻找藏身之地。刚刚失去最重要亲人的伊娃（Carmen Ejogo 饰）及其女儿卡莉（Zoë Soul 饰）躲在家中亦难免厄运临头，关键时刻母女被逡巡在城市巷尾的中士（弗兰克•格里罗 Frank Grillo 饰）救下，与此同时谢恩和莉兹也阴差阳错搭上了中士的车。
新仇旧恨以及对世界的各种愤懑不满，在这个夜晚集中爆发，脆弱的生命面临最惨烈的考验

　　Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.
　　Delving deep into the dusty and long abandonded vaults of b-cinema in search of lost gems always leaves me with a bittersweet taste. On one hand the discovery of unexpected gems where no one would think them possible is a rewarding experience. On the other hand though it makes one wonder how many of these remarkable low-budget oddities, personal love affairs of directors never quite famous and now all but forgotten, have almost forever slipped from memory?
　　n any case what we have here is a little post-apocalyptic gem from Poland that is really better than it has any right to. The dystopian near future of O-BI, O-BA finds a group of survivors of the nuclear war that ravaged the Earth inhabiting an underworld concrete bunker and biding their time as they wait for the mysterious Ark, an air ship of some kind that will come and save them. The Ark proves to be an elaborate hoax, carefully designed to give hope to the malnourished and desperate denizens of the bunker, while in the meantime the dome that separates their miserable existence from the nuclear winter outside is slowly caving in.
　　What first striked me about the movie is the design of the bunker and the depiction of the survivors. The survivors are gaunt, filthy and terrible-looking penitents, dressed in rags and aimlessly wandering the neon-lit halls of the bunker like automatons. The bunker is a rundown, seedy place, with bright neon lights peering from all sides like the eyes of malignant beasts.
　　On one hand it is a slightly 80's depiction of the dystopian future but the movie never stoops down to MAD MAX cheese. Instead it combines biting political satire with the bleak outlook of a world with no future, black comedy with barbs on apathy, religion and power. The survivors, for example, are fed some kind of flour dropping from a tube that hovers in the air - later on we discover the food supervisor uses books and the Bible itself as filler for this meagre meal. There are many such short symbolic touches, perhaps not life-changing or faith-restoring, yet playful, clever and inspired.
　　One thing is for sure; O-BI, O-BA is not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi schlock. It overcomes its modest budget with creativity and has genuine artistic aspirations both from a writing and directing perspective. My opinion is that it should have been filmed in black and white instead of colour though. The director uses atmospheric light and shadow to great effect and it would have registered even better in stark black and white. The blue-green neon on the other hand outstays its welcome after a while. Just a minor gripe in an otherwise solid b-movie with its heart set in all the right places.
　　Imagine a less bleak THE ROAD (Cormac McCarthy) being injected with the satire and humour of DR.STRANGELOVE and you're getting there. See it if you can find it.

　　Jane is trapped in an unknown world with endless possibilities. She has to discover a way to access them and alter her reality before she is destined to repeat the same test over and over again, Ad Infinitum.