I admit that this film's horror/sci-fi genre is not one that interests me these days and the only reason I watched this movie was because Gregory Fittoussi was in it. (He won an award for this role). Living in UK this did not come to local cinema's so I had to wait till released in streaming media. Genre has more appeal to my husband so we watched together. Juliette is trying to find food for group in post-apocalyptic American, landscape is arid and desserted. Due to the presence of mutant humaniods she has to return to base before dusk. A photo of her with a man is stuck to the visor in her vechicle. The film osocilates between Juliette's present dilemma of returning to base and her pre-apocalyptic, past relationship with Jack, a rich French art gallery owner living in New York. Watching it, I became involved with Juliette's dilemma and with her relationship with Jack, who looked passed the ugliness of Juliette's life to see the beauty within her. Without spoiling it, I just want to say the ending haunted me long after the credits had rolled. My husband also enjoyed this movie terming it 'diffierent' which in his case means 'not formulaic.' This movie deserved a wider release I hope it now finds it.

Firstly, most of the films free on youtube are crap. This film I watched on youtube and I knew it was gonna be crap after the first 15 minutes however the girlfriend insisted on watching it... and then at the end said it was crap too.It's one of these films that tries to be unique and interesting. It fails.A woman fighting off a freak, with flashblacks of her past.. both of which she screams and makes too much noise. The ending is just silly.. umm.. and is just silly.

There are reviewers here on IMDb that whinge on relentlessly about this or that movie not being "original" or "nothing new". Well, as far as I know, HOSTILE is completely original at least insofar as it synthesizes a post-apocalyptic/zombie story with a hand-wringing, chest-beating love story, which is certainly something I'VE never seen before. And as original as it may be, it did nothing for me. I found this very surprising because the originality whingers certainly seem to be of the opinion that originality and "freshness" is virtually the single attribute to which all movies should aspire. And yet, here I am, all unimpressed with HOSTILE, originality and all.HOSTILE generally appears to be two movies in one with the heroin character apparently the only shared element between the two parallel plot lines. Until the very last scene of the movie, with the single exception of the heroin, the two plot lines appear to be completely unconnected. It LOOKS as if we are simply watching our heroin's life as it is in the post-apocalyptic time as contrasted with her life in the "before time", prior to whatever happened which resulted in the apocalypse.The movie opens with the more or less stereotypical collection of scenes depicting post-apocalyptic life for your average survivor. A bundled up character (our heroin) going about a dry and dusty, desert-y landscape, everything looking completely dilapidated and rusty and run down, trying to collect what survival resources she can find. She's armed and very careful, always on the lookout for what are apparently post-apocalyptic monsters (which are HOSTILE's version of zombies).And then suddenly, with an abrupt scene change, we're in a metropolitan art gallery in the context of an art show where we see our same previously dusty heroin attending an art show but only for the purposes of getting out of the pouring rain outside. Within moments, the interminable flirtiness and romance with the owner of the art gallery commences, and with all the Kleenex-inducing vicissitudes of a stormy romance and blah blah blah.And so it goes for the rest of the movie, flipping back and forth between these two disparate plot lines; a few minutes of life and death struggle between our heroin and a post-apocalyptic zombie-thing (which looks for all the world like a concentration-camp-victim with a terrible skin problem) which is apparently grimly determined to eat her, and then we jarringly swap over to some romantically angsty moments in the before time, and then meanwhile back at the apocalypse...Certainly the pre-apocalyptic through line has all the great romantic elements for the unimaginative: the male romantic interest is wealthy, tall, darkly handsome, has an accent, and "saves" our heroin from her own self-destructive tendencies and... snore.It's never made clear what caused the apocalypse. Toward the end of the movie there is some vaguely referenced rather small scale terrorist chemical attack which does significant damage to the art gallery owner, but there is no clear relationship established between this event and the apocalypse. At all. But I think we're supposed to make that assumption.Only at the very last moments of the movie are the deeper connections between the pre-and-post-apocalypse made clear. Depending upon your taste I suppose SOME people may view it as very romantical, but it struck me as utter twaddle and as believable as a winged pig.

A play on words taken from a quote from the film, couldn't be more appropriate for my review as it forms the basis of what the film is about..We have Juliette, played by Brittany Ashworth, who is absolutely beautiful, but hides a very troubled life.Then we have Jack, played by Grégory Fitoussi who is an all together wealthy, stable man who has an eye for seeing the beauty within. He is naturally curious when he stumbles upon Juliette who has clearly come into his art gallery to avoid the rain and steal some free food! lol He is nevertheless captivated by her and so the story begins..This film is very enjoyable and genuinely keeps you interested and entertained throughout.. The film has a warmth and innocence to it that the writer conveys without making it overly complicated, despite Juliettes troubled life and grim realities of living in a post apocalyptic world.The cast give brilliant performances and the story flows seamlessly between the past and the present. Its a lovely story and directed brilliantly by the writer and a cast you just can't help falling in love with! lol This film is not about zombies or an apocalypse. Rather, this story, is about LOVE.. About a man who falls in love with a girl, a girl who he wants to help, rescue, look after and live happily ever after with.. Nothing wrong with that.. right?The apocalypse. why have it? well it could be a metaphor in the way that, these days, for a guy and a girl to find each other and live happily ever after, there almost has to be lots of 'end of the world' dramas! Not to mention put up with todays zombies or as we call them "trolls" which everyone seems to have turned into these days! So maybe life today is apocalyptic? :)Well done Mathieu on the brilliant script and execution and well done to the stunning cast for their performances.. Watch out for Brittany, she is a megastar in the making.. I just hope that Hollywood does not ruin this lovely actress or steal her innocence:)Thank you :)