Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Hulkeasexo it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

paul david This was a very watchable documentary and will be useful in schools and colleges, though I do think, like the Secret, it was a little too documentary like. sure to be a winner on the cable channels. i thought an angle was missing on how we should end up with life without people and yet other forms of life exist. the bit about Chernobyl and the neighbouring deserted ghost town was riveting and a real insight; if we originated from monkeys and apes, why was this not explained more/ ape life not mentioned at all until towards the end. are we really interested whether cockroaches will survive? We want the film to give us a better understanding of how we are abusing our planet and development of it. Certainly makes me wonder whether space exploration is in vain. Too American-ized again for me, only brief mentions of London Paris and italy. The visual effects are however excellent and should get further rewards for that at least

MitchellXL5 Impressive visuals, but this is as much science fiction as science fact - the level of speculation that goes on mars it. It routinely ignores non-degradable garbage and nuclear waste in its prognostication, there are huge leaps in logic - for instance, involving zoo animals. They present the only issue as whether they can get out of the zoos, not if they can actually survive the wild, they will actually mate, if there is enough diversity to even create a gene pool for the species to survive. In essence, this show takes incredibly complicated issues with multiple factors and boils them all down to more simple ones. Plus, they misrepresented an area of Chernobyl in order to make their point! There was something vaguely Republican about the whole thing, the idea that no matter what we do to the Earth, it's okay, because it's going to turn back into a pristine Garden of Eden anyhow! Enjoy this for what it is - a science fiction documentary.

verbusen OK I am a nuke war movie buff, mainly for the human drama I now realize but this one caught my eye when the History Channel advertised it so I watched it. It's kind of cool but the thing is I was wondering what the motivation was to even make this? I said to myself immediately it was made for tree hugger/human haters, and we al;l know there are a bunch of them out there now. Looking at the sparse comments here on IMDb.com AFTER my deduction, I nailed it. A place I'd l;ike to visit, good riddance, lol, bunch of human haters are into this show. I also thought who would really be into this show? Civil Engineers must love watching this, I bet they are saying to themselves yeah I earn my government pay keeping your city livable! Anyway, if your in any of those three groups (post apocalyptic movie buff's/human haters/civil engineer's) you will be interested, if you are not in any of those groups, this is pretty pointless viewing. I did have a comical thought, in this make believe world there were three people that were left, Burgess Meredith (Time Enough to Read-Twilight Zone), Bruce Willis (Twelve Monkeys), and Peter Ustinov (Logan's Run), I don't know what happens when they all get together but that would have have been a lot more fun to watch then to see building's crumble, lol. I guess you could have thrown in Robert Duvall (THX 1138 ending) and Rod Taylor (The Time Machine), and a couple of women from Roger Corman end of the world films to spice it up more, maybe not. 3 of 10, maybe more if your really bored with what's on TV.

bob the moo You can see this coming a mile away in the TV guide and, even when I watched it hoping for more, it did just what it suggested it would. There are lots of "what if" films out there and some of them are genuinely interesting and informative, however Life After People is not one of them. Instead it goes down the road of so many of them and just focuses on the special effects of the "what if" rather than the substance. This approach makes for a good 30 minute long programme, I'll give you that, but here the idea is stretched out to 90 minutes, with plenty of advert breaks to help you along.The effects are pretty good though; not Hollywood standards by any means but for the minute they are pretty good and reasonably imaginative. It doesn't help to be shown the same shots over and over again though because it does make the viewer realise just how much padding there is throughout. The experts are all on hand to provide justification and explanation but none of them can get passed the problem that it is not that interesting a question in the first place due to its lack of relevance. They all take about how quickly nature will come back in etc but nobody can make it important or interesting beyond the "oh, that's nice" level of interest. I know there is debate about how quickly things would really happen versus what was said in this film but for me the bigger thing to work out is why it manages to make me care so little? Life after People provides effect shots of buildings falling and cities overgrown. As such it is already competing with Hollywood sci-fi's with much bigger budgets to play with. It does an OK job with this but has nowhere near enough to show or talk about to fill even half of the running time and just gets repetitive and dull long before it is over. A shame really, because it would be a better film had the pressure not been on to fill space as much as possible whether the film merited it or not.