That and there's no spaceships or nuclear holocaust involved (contrary to other reviewers who apparently didn't actually bother to watch the film).
In current terms, the film is probably closest to a zombie film where the world has gone through a "plague" killing off most of the population and making it impossible (nearly) to grow food. If you can imagine your favorite apocalyptic virus-zombie film combined with Lord of the Flies and produced as more of a 1960s film than a film just a couple years before Star Wars, that's what you get.
Yul is convincing in the lead roll more because the population is starving to death than because he looks like or acts much like a warrior, though he's much more convincing than Charlton Heston would be in the same roll or in the Apes roll had he played that.
Although the story is strangely insightful in some ways, especially if you've just seen Food, Inc. or The Informant or Winged Migration, there are holes in the plot (set in 2012 being one of them) that leave a lot open and causes the film to not age very well.
In current terms, the film is probably closest to a zombie film where the world has gone through a "plague" killing off most of the population and making it impossible (nearly) to grow food. If you can imagine your favorite apocalyptic virus-zombie film combined with Lord of the Flies and produced as more of a 1960s film than a film just a couple years before Star Wars, that's what you get.
Yul is convincing in the lead roll more because the population is starving to death than because he looks like or acts much like a warrior, though he's much more convincing than Charlton Heston would be in the same roll or in the Apes roll had he played that.
Although the story is strangely insightful in some ways, especially if you've just seen Food, Inc. or The Informant or Winged Migration, there are holes in the plot (set in 2012 being one of them) that leave a lot open and causes the film to not age very well.