For a crap-tastic postapocalyptic Mad Max derivative, look no farther than Future World (2018), directed by–and starring–James Franco.
Life in California looks pretty bleak following a devastating world war. We don’t know much about what happened, but the movie begins with the goat-horn-helmeted Franco and his gang riding dirt bikes into a dust colony in order to incite mayhem and reboot a rare android left over from before the war. Franco, who seems to be channeling his “Alien” character from Spring Breakers, actually jump starts this “synthetic” young woman by using a USB port in her neck.
The other thread of the movie concerns a boy from a beach community who has to venture out into the postapocalyptic waste to find medicine for his dying mother (the matriarchal Lucy Liu). The naive young man meets up with Franco and his “synthetic” when they all arrive at a strip club run by Snoop Dogg.
Snoop Dogg is the best actor in this film, and you can draw your own conclusions from that statement. He controls his ho’s with electric collars and delivers lines like, “Y’all tryin’ to get y’all’s dicks wet or what?” The ten minutes or so at the strip club–what Snoop Dogg calls his “Bitches Hall of Fame”–is the standout scene in the movie.
The film’s plot doesn’t really matter (nor does it really exist), but human boy and android girl end up at a drug plant run by Milla Jovovich, who is the queen of the heroin junkies. The boy has to fight a death match with a big guy who looks suspiciously like Blaster, but in lieu of an expensive Thunderdome they duke it out in an empty swimming pool. Meanwhile, the android discovers that she’s a lesbian. The climax occurs when Franco and his gang raid the place; Jovovich shouts “No pain!” and shoots PCP into her neck in preparation to fight Franco, but the angel dust is no protection against the bullet that he puts in her head.
I can’t say I recommend this one. Despite the film’s decent cast (which also includes brief appearances by Method Man and Bruce Willis’s daughter), only Snoop Dogg shines. It’s low budget and low quality–not worth a full dollar.