Permafrost 2024
Sinopsis
A ruthless and broken bounty hunter roams the frozen wasteland, finding redemption in an unlikely place.
Cast
- LU. Lenni Uitto. James.
- RH. Riley Hardy. Meg.
- AD. Ariel Dawn. Kristi.
- CD. Cory Dangerfield. Jeremiah “Boss Man”
- CB. Charla Bocchicchio. Tiberia.
Review
“Permafrost” benefits from striking, snowy Utah settings and access to horses, ATVs and snowmobiles, which to writer, director and star Lenni Uitto, screamed “Ice Age Dystopia.” So he and co-star Rachelle Hardy dreamed up a new ice age where Russians, Russian gulags and bad Russian accents permeate a North America after — presumbly — the Bering Strait has frozen over and allowed Russianism to expand beyond its MAGA base.
The weather gives the film credibility, which the screenplay strips away, one limp cliche after another.
If you’re going dystopian, your future’s got to have bounty hunters. Because even if governments and techological infrastructure has collapsed, you’ll want to “employ” people to guard the gulags, and “loggers” (As in keeping a “log,” or “laggers?”) and hunters to wander the wasteland fetching or killing (and returning their tracking chips) escapees with electronic trackers.
Meat and apparently crackers will still be available, because anyone with a rifle can hunt and crackers will last long after manufacturing and distribution systems have broken down.
So loner James (Uitto) can get by, haunted by the ghost of a teen girl who gives him advice and urges him “Don’t shoot,” every now and then. Maybe she’ll talk him out of killing himself.
James shoots a lot, here. James stabs a lot, too, even after somebody’s apologized for shooting at him, or conked him on the head to rob him.
