Aftermath, also known as Remnants, is better than The Divide, which is also about people thrown together in a claustrophobic atmosphere after a nuclear explosion, but that praise is the only substantively good thing that I could write. There isn’t much character development. Aftermath relies heavily on character tropes-if I never see another prone to violence hot-headed redneck wife beater in a dystopian nightmare, I’ll be a happy camper, but it was nice to know that Edward Furlong is still working. I thought that he was dead. I think they correctly spent the majority of their budget on Andre Royo, whom I love from The Wire and Fringe. Aftermath’s filmmaker thought that he was being clever by suddenly stopping all camera movement and freeze framing to show the characters either at emotional turning points or in the midst of violent confrontation, but I found it tiresome. Unfortunately despite the characters efforts to protect themselves from the fallout, they soon do things that negate what they did earlier and though of course human beings will get violent, it felt like the filmmakers kind of wanted a 28 Days Later scenario more than devolution due to scarcity and panic. One character inexplicably loses it and starts biting people, and the characters even say that she isn’t a zombie. Skip Aftermath unless you must see every film involving complete nuclear war or any of the actors in the film.