Yes, yet another post-apocalyptic dystopia film. This one is set in a world with a devastated ecosystem following a massively failed genetic experiment that wiped out all edible plants and animals, leaving behind a neo-feudal society of starving serfs around 'citadels' where the rich live. The protagonist is a resolute 14-year-old girl who is struggling to keep her paralysed father alive and has taught herself to become an expert in biohacking to make self-sufficiency in edible plants possible again.
So, there are some touches in the scenario outside the standard wasted Earth set-up, as well as the perpetual tropes. There's little future tech on show, and the FX budget is really only used to bring weird, mutated flora to life. Being filmed in a grey, autumnal Lithuania is also unusual and adds to the reflective sombreness.
Not a masterpiece by any means, but nor just one more off-the-shelf actioner in the genre with a plucky resistance bringing down the new overclass.
6/10
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