DEFCON-4

1985

Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller

7
IMDb Rating 4.5/10 10 2398 2.4K

dystopia post-apocalyptic future canuxploitation

Plot summary

Two men and a woman circle the globe in a satellite armed with a nuclear device. The third world war breaks out, and a few months later the satellite crashes. They survive the crash but one man gets killed by survivors and the other man gets caught. The woman stays by the remains of the the satellite but is soon caught by evil punks who have taken power.

Director

Tony Randel Photo
Tony Randel

Top cast

Ken Ryan Photo
Ken Ryan as Newscaster
Jeff Pustil Photo
Jeff Pustil as Lacey
Kate Lynch Photo
Kate Lynch as Jordan
Maury Chaykin Photo
Maury Chaykin as Vinny
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731.67 MB
1280*682
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 2
1.39 GB
1920*1024
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jessewillis 5 / 10

It was the best of films, it was the worst of films...

It was the best of films, it was the worst of films... two words: "Engrossingly Mind-numbing". Def-Con 4 is truly an oddball. The script is incomprehensibly senseless. There is no story arc at all, it is simply a collection of characters improvising scenes. It is a great example of what I like to call "plotless development" or "one damn thing after another". The acting is uniformly bad with the exception of Maury Chaykin who is hilarious as a Canadian survivalist. I particularly love one scene in this film in which we see the detail of a mechanism of a booby trap. The booby trap has as its trigger a Canadian social insurance card. What kind of symbolism are we supposed to find in this? Either this is the deepest film I've ever seen or the it is the shallowest. Either it deserves a 10 or it deserves a 1, I'll split the difference and give it 5.
Reviewed by stp_44720 10 / 10

unfairly dismissed

One of the better eighties post-apocalyptic films was and is Def Con 4. It bombed in 1985 but has gone on to gain a small cult following. It is the story of three astronauts, one in particular, who witness war and nuclear holocaust from a satelite. The space footage is well shot and a genuine sense of dread reigns as we watch them contemplate the deaths of their families and of civilization. When their satelite is forced to land they fall into a nuclear wasteland fillled with armed militants and plague ridden cannibals. This is perhaps one of the dirtiest looking movies of its day, which rather adds to the already oppresive atmosphere. Unfortunately Def Con runs out of steam toward the somewhat hurried finale. Yet if your not easily put off by the brutal tone of the movie, its science fiction worthy of 90 minutes of your life.
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