Review of Land of Doom

I'm puzzled why Turner Classic Movies decided to air this movie during their weekly late night Underground presentation, because I really can't see it appealing to anybody, even if the viewers have a taste for B movies and the post-apocalypse genre. I admit that the look of this particular genre entry does have a unique backdrop, being filmed in the deserts of Turkey, which does add a little effective bleakness to this world. But apart from that, I am hard pressed to think of anything positive to say about this movie. There's almost no plot - most of the movie is devoted to the two lead characters wandering around and having encounters that add absolutely nothing interesting or necessary to the story, or showing the bad guys killing innocent people for no apparent reason at all. In fact, the movie doesn't even have a proper ending, concluding on a note that feels extremely unfinished. The characters are extremely weak, and are understandably made even worse by the I-don't-care attitude of the actors. There is hardly anything in the way of production values, often feeling that scenes were set up and shot as quickly as possible without any thought to adding anything to the scenes to make them stand out. As for action, it is absolutely routine and boring, that is when it doesn't show off some of the worst editing you've ever seen in an action movie. Maybe TCM decided to show this movie during late night so that it would help insomniacs to fall asleep.