RESISTANCE is visually an enormous film, MAD MAX 2 and 3 in style and size and made with a fairly healthy budget: $7 million dollars Australian (about $10m USD). It had spectacular set pieces and lots of marauding battling army vs citizens scenes, sort of all ready to go all Braveheart on each other. The post apocalyptic collapse of civilisation theme seemed interesting (again) and many of the MAX movie actors turned up again for duty. But it was never released. No cinema in Australia actually screened the film to the public. Then one week, the producer Pauline Rosenberg hired an inner city art-house and it had a few sessions as some sort of 'write off' season maybe to prove to the now penniless backers that the film saw the arclight and flopped. There is a smelly rat in the production of this film. It cost far too much and I do not even believe was meant to be shown. Plenty of 'fees' gobbled up the production costs and attempts to release it were met with a minefield of dramas, causing every cinema distributor, including myself, to be uneasy about the financial dealings (and dramas to come). Everyone said no and resistance to RESISTANCE was final. However, someone made a lot of money from the production of this film...a sad but common tale of film production in Oz.