All the reviews on here are not that accurate, this movie is very boring and the story behind it is not that much thrilling. I do not advise wasting your time on this movie because like I said it's boring, all my friends disliked it and we considered stopping it a bunch of times.

The US has been devastated by war and disease, killing off most of the population and leaving survivors without a government or civil order. What's left is different gang controlled territories by The Sheets, The Cherries, The Plow Boys, The Gamblers, and The Domestics. The Sheets wear sheets. The Cherries are an all-girl gang. The Plow Boys drive a big plow. The Gamblers are the most interesting, continually playing games of chance, spinning prize wheels or doing rock-paper-scissors to decide whether to kill someone or not. That group had a bit more to their mythology and are the most interesting, having an actual culture rather than just an interesting outfit or namesake prop. The Domestics are the gang who are the most normal and identifiable (you know, domestic) and that gang is where our two heroes herald from. The distinct look of each gang, outside of the normal Domestics, made this film seem like a post-apocalyptic version of Walter Hill's "The Warriors" with our hero gang, The Domestics, having the bop their way through enemy gang territory to get to safety. There's even a DJ narrating between the film's events, just as Hill's DJ did in his 1979 film. The story wastes no time getting down to business with a husband (Tyler Hoechlin) and wife (Kate Bosworth) setting out across the county to find out why Bosworth's parents stopped answering on their CB radio. As will Walter Hill's film, writer/director Mike P. Nelson's story unfolds in a series of episodic events, where the couple encounters various gangs, although unlike "The Warriors," this film comes to a head with a major confrontation between all of the warring gangs. That climactic action scene is pretty good, but my favorite episode comes early in the story when the couple is rescued by a kind man, Lance Reddick, and his son who takes the pair back to his warm welcoming home to meet his family and enjoy a hot meal, which (SPOILER ALERT!) ends up being PEOPLE! It's a wonderfully creepy episode with this seemingly normal and caring family turning out to be cannibals. What makes the episode work so well is that it doesn't build to a familiar Texas Chainsaw Massacre crescendo with Bosworth and Hoechlin becoming the family's next meal, but they instead find themselves calmly being invited to join the family. I wish more of "The Domestics" was made up of more unique and unexpected of episodes such as this, instead of the more familiar encounter/fight/flee formula that makes up a majority of the couple's encounters (though their encounter with The Gamblers in a ramped up version of Russian Rouletter that's a bit like "The Deer Hunter" meets "SAW" is pretty wild). Overall, "The Domestics" has the grim look of "The Road" but is more similar to the comic book post-apocalyptic action of something along the lines of "The Purge" or "Z-Nation", which isn't a bad thing, but I think this movie had the potential for greatness with it's solid cast, excellent production design, and some cool ideas sprinkled throughout.

I watched the trailer and read all the reviews comparing it to The Warriors (plus Purge and Mad Max) and got super excited for this. But despite decent acting and quality production, the story is pretty much garbage and completely predictable with nothing original in it. I wouldn't even say that the comparison to The Warriors holds any water - they show you about 3 gangs in it, plus a couple of guys running around in sheets calling themselves the Ghosts. And of course what would you do if you lived in a post-apoc word with killers in animal heads running around trying to kill everyone or sell off the women as prostitutes? Get naked and have sex in a car without checking the surrounding area - duh! Seriously, some ridiculous stuff.

Wow is all I can say. This movie was everything I could want in a post apocalyptic setting. The main characters of Nina and Mark were well cast. The action set pieces and cinematography were executed with attention to detail. I've seen comparisons to The Purge in other reviews but the difference between those films and The Domestics is that the latter doesn't shove political crap down your throat. It's just a straight up action packed thrill ride with our two protags trying to save their marriage and their lives from roaming gangs of psychopaths. I especially liked Lance Reddick's turn as the helpful family man who turns out to be a cannibal. My only gripe is that Kate Bosworth's character occasionally made some dumb moves but I chalk it up to being part of her arc. Overall I highly recommend this film to genre fans and those that want a break from Oscar bait and superhero fare.