Welcome back to Movie Recaps. Today I will show you a 2010 post-apocalyptic film,
titled The Lost Future. Spoilers ahead! Watch out and take care.
In a post-apocalyptic Earth, what is left of humanity lives in primitive tribes without
technology, trying to avoid contact with a group of beasts that transmits a disease that transforms
the victims into mutants. One day while hunting, Savan goes out of what the elders have assigned
as hunting grounds, claiming the elders gave grown too cautious with their age. However,
his father, Chief Uri, finds him and scolds him for putting the whole village in danger.
Savan reminds him they've only been eating leaves and berries for days and he wants
to prove himself as the best hunter and future chief, so Uri decides to give him a chance. As
they go deeper into the forest, they come across Kaleb, who has been tracking an animal for food.
They've gone too far from the hunting grounds and Uri wants them to go back, but when they hear an
animal nearby, he allows them to go just a little farther. Soon the beast appears in front of them,
which is some sort of mutated sloth, and to Kaleb's frustration, Uri chooses Savan to guide
the attack. Working all together they manage to kill the beast even when is much larger than them,
and Uri declares the heart will be shared by both Savan and Kaleb because it's thanks to both of
them that they could acquire meat for dinner. Suddenly, one of their friends comes running
from the forest, looking infected and already turning into a mutant. He wants to be put out
of his misery, but Savan doesn't want to do it. It's a flying spear coming from the forest that
ends up killing him, making Savan furious. They decide to return to the village then,
unaware that a mysterious man called Amal is following them. Dorel rushes to receive Savan,
praising him for his hunt, and a jealous Kaleb is left being teased by his sister Miru,
who tells him he doesn't have a chance with her. Uri talks to the elders and tries to convince
them of taking the tribe somewhere else since obviously the mutants are approaching their area,
but the elders refuse, claiming they've always been safe here and there's nowhere else to go,
so they should leave it up to god's fate. Kaleb wants them to choose his own fate, like his father
Jaret did while searching for the truth, but the elders just tell him that's how he found death.
Uri agrees, it's impossible for more survivors to exist out there, just disease and death. After
talking to his sister about their father, Kaleb decides to leave the village and search for the
truth, which Miru doesn't believe in either. He doesn't get to go very far though: as soon as he
makes it to the river, he sees a group of mutants making their way to his village, so he decides to
go back as well to help. The mutants attack the tribe and the warriors immediately meet them with
their own weapons, starting a vicious fight. While the men do manage to kill some mutants, their
numbers still are much larger, so the elders call for everyone to enter a cave where they can hide.
As Savan watches how the mutants kill and bite his father, the elder orders the youngsters to close
the cave because the beasts are about to reach them and they don't have time for any remaining
people to join them. The boys obey, leaving Kaleb, Savan, and Dorel outside. Dorel is attacked by a
mutant and Kaleb quickly saves her by killing it, but Savan is the one she hugs afterward.
The three of them hide behind a big rock and watch the mutants wander around the cave, searching for
a way in. Savan wants to distract them and attack them, but Kaleb thinks they should go searching
for help, and Dorel agrees - staying here only equals death, there's nothing they can do.
Leaving at least equals having a chance, small as it may be, so Savan gives in and follows them
out of the area. After wandering around for a while, they stop by the river, unaware that Amal
is watching them again. Savan finds a book in Kaleb's bag and he has to explain what it is:
an object from the old world that his father brought him and he used it to teach him to read,
which nobody in their tribe knows how to do. Their conversation is interrupted when suddenly,
a mutant appears not too far away, so they start running away again until they are at
a safe distance - or so they think. The mutant quickly catches up with them and attacks them,
but Savan doesn't want to defend himself because he realizes it's Uri, who has been taken over by
the infection. He's saved by Amal, who finally shows himself as he kills the beast, reminding
them that wasn't Uri anymore. After confessing he used to know Kaleb's father, he asks them
if their noses are ok and not bleeding, because the infection isn't only transmitted to a bite.
Biting makes it advance fast, but breathing near them is also enough to get it and become a mutant
in a much slower, agonizing way. As Amal takes them back with him to his home, he explains he's
immune to the infection thanks to a cure in the form of a yellow powder that is very hard to get.
He also makes them cross a river to reach his place because they're safe there: the mutants are
scared of water, and that's why the beasts never reached Amal's home, which is in the ruins of an
old building. Once there, Amal introduces them to his son Persk and his wife Neenah, who is furious
with him for having brought infected humans to their home, but Amal thinks it's worth the
risk. While having lunch together, Amal tells the story of what really happened to the group, who
believes it was a punishment from god: actually, man tried to bring extinct animals back to life,
and with them, they also revived a disease they couldn't control. He knows all this thanks to
Kaleb's father, whose ability to read allowed him to research the matter and create a cure in the
form of that yellow powder. If you've already turned, the powder is useless, but for those
who just got infected, it can cure them. Sadly, Jaret died before he could take the powder back
to the village and it was stolen by a ruthless man called Gagen, who now keeps it to himself.
Amal wants to guide the group to the abandoned city where the powder and possibly the formula
is hidden for Kaleb to decipher, and the group agrees. When night falls and everyone goes to bed,
Neenah hears some noises and decides to lock the door. Kaleb hears some noises as well and wakes
up to find Savan and Dorel making love. He can't help staring at them, and when Dorel notices him,
she stares back until he turns around. Back in the village, the mutants grab some of the weapons the
bodies are holding and start using them to hit the wood that covers the cave entrance.
Miru thinks they should be trying to do something, but the elder wants them to do nothing but pray.
Remi doesn't accept this and starts moving some smaller rocks at the back of the cave,
which the elder doesn't approve of, claiming it goes against god's will. Miru thinks god shouldn't
blame them for surviving and begins helping him dig. When they finally make a hole big enough,
the two of them plus Yomack cross to see what they can find. There is a small tunnel filled with
water and a breeze coming out from it, but the gap is so small only Miru could fit through it.
She gets in the water and tries to swim through, but quickly comes back when a bunch of leeches
attaches themselves to her body. The boys help her get all of them off, and once she's clean,
she decides to try again, because they've come too far to give up now. Meanwhile, the elders are at
the cave entrance, watching the mutants through the gaps in the wood, and one of them slips its
hand under it to grab them. They quickly kill the beast with a spear, but the elder's nose is now
bleeding, a sign of infection. The other person who is starting to nosebleed is Yomack, who has
crossed the underwater gap with Remi after Miru made room for them. They find a tunnel that goes
outside and start to climb it, only to discover there are mutants at the end. They go back down,
but they do it so fast and clumsily that Yomack falls and breaks his leg. He doesn't want to be
helped though, because it would cause them to slow down and allow the mutants to get them all,
so he stays back as bait while Miru and Remi run away. They cross the underwater gap without
issues and after eating Yomack, the mutants try to follow them, but they are held back by the
sight of water. When Miru and Remi make it back to the main cave, they discover most of their
fellow villagers have gotten sick, displaying the symptoms of the disease. When the elder
gets too sick and asks for mercy, Remi refuses to do anything, so Miru takes his spear and doesn't
hesitate to stab him before he mutates, asking the others to do the same to her if it comes
down to that. In the morning, Amal and the trio leave the ruins to go searching for the powder.
They take Amal's raft and the boys learn how to row since they never saw any kind of boat before.
A group of mutants sees them from the hills and starts throwing rocks at them,
so the group starts rowing faster until they lose them. Amal tells them of a brotherhood that used
to exist before Gagen created a huge conflict over the ownership of the powder, but he knows there
are a few of them around, so when they get to the shore, he wants to light up a beacon to see if
they'll come. While he is up in a tower starting a fire, a group of mutants approaches them,
so Amal tells the trio to run as he comes down and fights them. Kaleb doesn't want to leave him,
but Savan thinks it's too dangerous and drags him back on the raft with him and Dorel as Amal
falls into a hole and the mutants try to get them there. One even falls in the hole with him, and
Amal stabs him with an arrow, so now he's stuck in the hole with a mutant body on top of him.
Unaware that the brotherhood has seen the beacon and is coming for them, the trio gets away on
the raft as they discover Dorel is starting to nosebleed too. As the brotherhood finds
and rescues Amal and he tells them he's found someone that can read and should be protected,
the trio arrives at the ruins of an old city. They discover the people here are living under a strict
tyranny, and when one man runs away after getting whipped for stealing, the trio approaches him to
ask him some questions about the powder. The man considers those questions too dangerous though,
so he runs away again, and Savan tries to catch him. Unfortunately, he loses him in the way,
and when he comes back, he finds Dorel and Kaleb being taken away by some guards to see Gagen and
his daughter Giselle. Gagen doesn't want to share the powder, so Kabel explains he's the son of the
creator and he can read as well, so he can make more. Gagen still refuses to give it to them,
wanting to save it for his future children and grandchildren, but he does give him the
opportunity to go to the library and try to recreate it while Dorel is taken to isolation.
Once Gagen is gone, Savan sneaks into the room and talks to Giselle, asking her to take him
to the powder. At first, she doesn't want to help because she's afraid of her dad, but after seeing
him being so ruthless to visitors, learning he stole the powder from an innocent man,
and hearing Savan talk about giving hope to thousands of survivors, she changes her mind.
Giselle takes Savan to his father's safe, which can only be opened with the key he carries around
his neck. Savan doesn't believe this because there's dust all over it, meaning it hasn't been
opened in a long time, which contradicts Giselle saying Gagen takes out a bit of powder every day.
They search the room for other hidden spots and find nothing, so Giselle comes up with a plan.
At the library, Kaleb finds his father's work. While he can read it, it'll take him weeks to
understand and recreate it, a time he doesn't have because he's starting to nosebleed too.
Gagen says Kaleb can't do this and refuses to give him some powder to buy more time,
but their conversation is interrupted by Giselle, who has come to tell her father
someone has broken into the other room to steal the powder. When Gagen rushes there, he finds
nobody in the room, but he checks the powder is ok and reveals to a hidden Savan its hiding spot:
it's inside a flashlight hiding inside a wall. Savan jumps and Gagen and knocks him out,
and he's about to kill him when Giselle stops him and shares the powder with him, curing him of his
symptoms. The two of them rush to see Dorel and cure her too after knocking out a guard, and as
they leave, Giselle gives the lantern to Savan and asks him to keep up Kaleb's father's work.
Savan and Dorel hurry to the library next, where they fight another guard before curing Kaleb.
The trio leaves the city safely, but when they reach the forest, a group of guards
is waiting for them. After Savan distracts them and even fights one until he falls unconscious,
the three of them get on the raft and row away until they reach the nearest shore. They go up
the hills until they find a very flimsy rope bridge that they cross as carefully as possible,
but things get difficult when Gagen and his men find them. Kaleb is hit on the leg with an arrow,
and when they reach the other side, Savan asks Dorel to help Kaleb while he takes care of guards,
because Kaleb is the only one with the ability to recreate the powder, making him humanity's
only hope. Savan returns to the head of the bridge and starts cutting the ropes to make the soldiers
fall, but this gives Gagen the chance to land a couple of arrows on him, making him fall as well.
Dorel and Kaleb start running away and they're found in the forest by Amal and the brotherhood,
who were able to find them after they saw the abandoned raft and tracked them from there.
Using the brotherhood's horses, they quickly return to the village, where the mutants had
started to dig under the entrance to reach the tribe. The brotherhood has no trouble killing
them all while Dorel enters the cave to share the powder right before Miru kills herself in
fear of mutating. After the battle is over, Gagen finds them and shoots an arrow at Kaleb that Amal
jumps in front of to protect him. Furious, Kaleb picks up an ax and throws it a Gagen,
finally killing him. Some dates later, after taking Amal back to his home,
Kaleb says goodbye to his sister, who is teaching more kids how to read. He makes his way back to
the city, intending to find that library again and finish his father's work to save humanity.