So, I enjoy watching mediocre movies in the hopes that I will find a Diamond in the rough. Stakeland is one of them. It gets a poor description in the blurb just saying that there are vampires that have ruined America and that we're following two characters around the country. Simply put, this is what the movie is about, which is nice to see. The movie doesn't focus on how humans are some consumer culture eating everything in our path like zombie movies tend to imply. It doesn't focus on survival, where the characters are just barely surviving, starving to death, and fending off hunger (though there is more mention of hunger here than in the Hunger Games). It doesn't focus on the socio-political aspects of vampires coexisting with humans (stupid true blood), nor does it focus on the SCIENCE of killing vampires or why the exist or anything like that. Its really just a movie about a journey to a place called "new eden" and it highlights the turmoils the main characters face trying to get there. And SPOILER ALERT: the movie ends when the characters get there, and it doesn't even show you what happens, if it is what people have said it was through the movie, or if it is salvation, or what. They Literally get there, and the movie ends, leaving the story open, but closed.
There are a lot of mentions about people, and how the main character Martin finds peace and happiness among only the few people he travels with, and finds that being around other people is dangerous.
Stakeland has a great musical score, unpredictable rises and falls, and a strange climactic sequence and denouemont, which I liked in that it doesn't have a great resolution, its just kinda like "eh, this is where we are now." Which is cool because that is how stories are in real life. In stage play, a person's story doesn't end when they leave stage. You leave a room, and enter another room. This is kinda the feeling I got from Stakeland. We know their Journey is not over, so there is no real ending.
If one can ignore a few poorly delivered lines like "save him" and "I'm just getting old and scary." Stakeland is definitely worth a viewing. I was also happy to see a movie that FINALLY acknowledges that A, cars need fuel, and B. you need a generator to have power if the world is over.
Stakeland is not the type of movie that is going to WOW you, but it is an interesting adventure movie with action sequences that are as needless as they would be in real life.
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