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Dark Country is a film about a newly married couple driving through the desert. It tries to combine the cheap budget of a single setting of Phone Booth and the comic book like photography of Sin City – and fails painfully every step of the way.

My main problem with this movie was continuity. It jumps all over the place and has too many holes. I noticed when I checked IMDB that I’m not alone. Since I don’t advocate watching this piece of trash, below is a little bit of a spoiler.

There are two timelines set in present day and some time period that is hard to detect and is only once vaguely refereced as 30 years ago. They drive around in cars from the 50′s, 80′s, and 2000′s and use cell phones intermittently. If you’re trying to decode all of this nonsense, then you’re probably putting more thought into it than the makers did.

A lot of time is spent in a car with very bad green screen. The backgrounds are a joke. Everything is just a black background.

Wikipedia says this movie had a budget of $5 million. Where did it go? I hope every penny went to the actors, because even though they didn’t do an amazing job – everything else was a complete flop.

Rating: (1/5)
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Anyone who disagrees, I’d love to hear why! Leave me a comment or tweet @KristopherIves with your two cents.