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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Image Entertainment
Salesrank: 8092
Released: February 5, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
The year is 2104. For the past century, the world has been ravaged by war and disaster. Radiation colors the skies, and a red chemical mist hangs over miles of lifeless land. Government as we know it has been destroyed. Civilization has devolved to a time of feudal states and martial law. Welcome to the New Reality. Across the former United States of America, now known simply as Deathlands, powerful tyrants have set up makeshift kingdoms, oppressing and enslaving the remaining survivors of the 21st century... except for a heroic few. Ryan Cawdor, his beautiful mutant girlfriend Krysty Wroth, the deadly J.B. Dix, and the lethal albino teenager Jak Laurent are the hope for a reborn future. Nomadic by nature, they roam Deathlands in defiance of all who would take away their freedom.
Deathlands: Homeward Bound Reviews:
A good way to kill a couple of hours 
2009-06-30 - I was a Deathlands fan for years, that is until Axler died and the series was taken over by a mostly inept series of ghost writers so it was with interest that I watched this movie when it first aired on Scifi. Better then the usual Scifi channel offering with some very impressive camera work and if the story isn't "good" in the traditional sense at least I was entertained. There are certain drawbacks the biggest for me was no Doc Tanner but the characters that survived the adaptation process were executed faithfully enough.
Is the movie going to win any awards? Dear god no but those of you decrying this movie as a horrible adaptation and a fraud should remember that in spite of its many problems at least it got produced.
not even close to the book 
2009-03-23 - I am a big Deathlands fan. I was excited to see a Deathlands movie till I saw the movie. the actors did ok at best. should have had different actors for most of the parts. Spano did not fit for Ryan Cawdor. JB Dix was totally different than as the books describe. Jak Lauren was farthest off of all. Doc Tanner and Lauri Quint were totally omited. the movie drags out too long for a low budget flick. I would like to see a real Hollywood production of this or any of the Deathlands books.
Garbage
2008-11-20 - This movie (and I use that term lightly) is a great waste of time. I watched it in totality and that's 90 minutes of my life I'll never get back. I have read the entire Deathland series - twice. This dreck has nothing in common w/ that James Axler series of the same name. The red filter made the outside shots unwatchable, and the poor acting made the rest of the scenes unwatchable. The script bore no resemblence to any of the books and the action was akin to all the clowns getting out of a car at the circus. God this thing was terrible. If you get this DVD somehow (and I hope you haven't bought it) it's only good to hang from your rearview mirror to keep off the radar. Please, please don't buy this crap. Spend the money on the book of the same name and read it - you will be much better for doing it. Don't waste your time on this DVD.
Homeward Bound
2008-07-04 - This is the bottom of the barrel for "B" movies. It doesn't come close
to the acutal book by Axler. Whoever wrote the screenplay should find
another occupation. None of the actors come close to representing what
the lead characters actually look like or act like their respective
characters in Axler's Deathland series.
Deathlands wannabe Movie 
2008-04-17 - Being a huge Deathlands reader mark, I was extremely excited to finally see a Deathlands movie come out.
But alas, it failed miserably on so many areas.
Actually the actors who portrayed Ryan Cawdor and Krysty Wroth were good, and actually dressed and looked the part. The other ones who played Jak Lauren and J.B. Dix were terrible.
Even with a low budget, this easily could have been a classic B-movie post-holocaust action/adventure movie. It actually showed promise at times, but failed miserably at its very core. Too bad. This long running action series could still be made into a hot Hollywood production hit if it were made right. And it actually would not cost that much to produce.
But if you are not a harcore fan like myself, you might see it in a different light. As I can tell from some of the positive reviews here.
