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SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Stephanie Madrid I saw this film at the Worldfest International Film Festival in Houston, TX where it won a Platinum Remi for Best Sci-Fi Feature! The filmmakers, Gil Luna and Jonathan Stark, were present and shared their story about the struggles and triumphs in making this film. If you support independent film and post-apocalyptic awesomeness, then you need to BUY this film. The story will make you cry, laugh and really appreciate your life.The DP also did excellent work. There's one shot where the lead actress is looking at her reflection on some broken glass. I remember that one specifically because it was one of my favorite shots from the film. I even remember talking about it with my friends at the Houston screening.And the lead actress….OMG! I was cracking up when she was talking to herself. She's very versatile. I can't wait to see her in future films.Way to go Population 2 team!

John Fowler I fast forwarded to the end thinking there might be some 'big' ending but alas... the entire movie was boring and lame from start to finish. Some characters even talked in a monotonic tone as if they were also bored to even be in the movie. Where were the post-nuclear mutations? Rats the size of cars? Come on!If you have some time to waste and you are looking for something to do I recommend going outside and watching the clouds float by as you will find much more entertainment than you might find from watching this movie... or perhaps watching paint dry is your thing...In any event, please do yourself a favor and pretend you never even knew that this movie existed and your life will be richer because of it.

deion-williams I was looking forward to watching this movie. I'm a die hard dystopian/apocalyptic fan, whether that be movies or books, and love a sole survivor style situation; so this should have fit the bill perfectly for me. Now the plot line and the cinematography is good. Most scenes are fairly well shot and the story - although it flits from scene to scene and back and forth between the present and past - is easy enough to follow and blends in quite nicely. Some of the darker apocalyptic scenes are shot very well and show Lilith (Suzanne Tufan) struggling to survive and walking through the apocalyptic wasteland, and bedding down in her basement at night.Suzanne Tufan plays a decent role whilst also narrating many of the scenes well too. But there are one or two that let the whole game down. Well, mainly one, and that's her on-screen husband. It's been a long time since I've wanted to put my fist inside of the TV and punch someone just for the role they play. And I don't mean because of the person he portrays, but because of the way he acted it out. It's like watching Joey from friends when he acts as Dr. Drake Ramoray in 'Days of our Lives'. Just awful.

Mike Bazanele "Population: 2" centers on a woman named Lillith, the only survivor of an ecological disaster that wipes out life as we know it on Earth. We see her past as a series of flashbacks that gradually come to explain how she ended up wandering alone through the tattered ruins of Portland, Oregon. Suzanne Tufan steals the show in her challenging dual-role as Lillith, a woman who is broken in two by tragedy. Before the disaster, Lillith is happy, bright and hopeful. Afterwards she is broken, haunted and struggling to maintain her sanity. As we delve into Lillith's past, we find that the ecological disaster was in part caused by the money-grubbing tactics of a Corporation called OmniTech, whose irresponsible use of "solar shield" technology to deflect the sun's rays and cool the earth backfired disastrously, causing a global meltdown. The evil empire is headed by the villainous Vincent Velo (Shelly Lipkin), who (before the disaster) employs Lillith's husband Simon (Jon Ashley Hall) as his media mouthpiece. Expecting special treatment for his years of service to OmniTech, Simon asks Vincent to ensure space for his family in "habitats" that OmniTech is setting up to help it's most important employees survive the disaster. Vincent tells Simon that he can only offer him one habitat, stocked with enough resources for one person. In an unfortunate twist, this all happens right around the time Lillith discovers she's pregnant.Now we arrive at the point in our story that the writer has been guiding us towards all along: an ultimatum. Early on the film establishes the existence of an over-the-counter abortion pill called "Pandora" (brought to you by OmniTech!). The "Pandora" commercial features a golden-curled young woman dancing in a sea of flowers as a soothing voice-over instructs us that "A pregnancy can sometimes come at the wrong time in your life." When spineless Simon learns of his wife's pregnancy, he takes matters into his own hands and forces his wife to abort by slipping a Pandora tablet into her drink without her knowledge. By the time we arrive at this wildly contrived moment of choice, we have already suspected for some time that this would be a pro-life flick.Or is it? The politics are quite muddled in "Population: 2". Simon takes away Lillith's right of choice by forcing her to abort, and kills himself out of guilt. How would this exchange have played out differently if Lillith were the one who wanted to abort and Simon had tried to stop her? Does the fact that Simon's choice ultimately saved Lillith's life mitigate his crime? And what does all of this have to do with the environment, corporations and the threat of destructive technology? And why the recurring religious themes? Where is "God" in this movie?Technically, "Population: 2" is one of the more impressive local features I've seen. The photography is solid, capturing some surprisingly haunting images of loss and destruction. The editing is a little uneven, and like many independent films relies too heavily on digital filters and color-correction. Overall the special effects were serviceable and managed to breath some authenticity into the filmmaker's vision of post-apocalyptic Portland. I think the strongest scenes in "Population: 2" are when Lillith is alone in the ruins of Portland. Tufan's nuanced performance is really what makes this film work, and other actors and dialogue and preachy political ideologies seem to only get in the way.