Firstly, it needs to be said that you should not go into this film expecting a blockbuster or high budget affair. It is neither.

That said, this film has some quite impressive qualities as well as some pretty serious issues that undermine it.

Firstly, the film is pretty high concept. It's premise is not particularly new (survivors in a post-apocalyptic, virus ravaged world) but it presents its own unique, non-derivative version of that premise. The society that the characters inhabit feels like something that I haven't seen before (and I've watch a lot of these kinds of films). It feels like a South American dictatorship meets the wild west meets 1950s knife gangs. And while that sounds like quite a mish-mash, it actually feels quite internally consistent.

The story is pretty well thought out and, in my opinion, interesting. However, its translation to screen has a number of problems. The pacing is all over the place. A number of events in the film are shoehorned in purely so that later events will make sense, and it is pretty jarring when this happens. There is one particular scene where the slow-motion approach of a group of characters lasts longer than the pointless conversation they have when they arrive - and the scene was only there so you'd know who they were later in the film. Quite odd.

The style of storytelling is not going to be for everyone, either. It vacillates between arthouse noir and student film bluntness. The first half of the film is vague and meandering. The second half of the film is tighter. Yet, there is a general lack of flow in the presentation. And there are some quite misguided scenes in the film that indicate a lack of writing/film-making experience. That said, the film was shot in 15 days and when you factor in the several fight scenes (which would have eaten up shooting time) I can understand why the final result is inconsistent.

The acting also varies wildly. The main actor (who also directed the film) doesn't have much range but he's not completely incompetent. The supporting cast do a great job, for the most part. A couple of players really struggle in their roles.

The action scenes were at times really very good. At other times they felt very out-of-character for the setting. In particular, the antagonist of the film has a really good knife-fighting scene with one of the other supports. A few minutes later he has a very underwhelming 80s action-ish fight with the protagonist, full of fancy martial arts kicks and flips and other nonsense that felt very inappropriate for the film.

If you're interested in watching films where people try to stretch a limited budget into something bigger than they can really afford, then I think this film is well worth watching. Unlike many other films of a similar ilk, it has something rather special: genuine originality.

I encountered this movie with little to no expectations as I'd never heard of it, however it was very recent so I thought I would give watching it a shot. And here I am, perhaps the closest to regretting watching a movie as I've ever been. This review is relatively specific as I feel it is necessary in order to help everyone understand just how bad this movie is.

As several other reviews have pointed out, the writing and acting are simply awful. I understand that the movie had a low budget and it was meant to be more of a realization of a dream than a real "hit"... but wow. I've seen low-budget movies vastly superior to this. The setting and mood alone are incoherent and almost non-existent. Dirt is something that has no cost, yet all of the people wandering in this "post-apocalyptic" world are spotless, clean-shaven, and look like people you would see walking on the street. There appear to be no shortage in supplies, uniformed law enforcers, an in-tact hospital, even a swanky and almost perfectly functioning car. Why, then, is there a lack of guns? Did they somehow disappear from the face of the Earth? One tiny but crazy concept in the movie is that anything can be self-taught. Anyone would understand that scientific research is not something that can be "self-taught", especially if you're a janitor. Generally speaking, 90% of the time I was thinking "everyone in this movie could die and it wouldn't make a difference in the grand scheme of things". Half of the time I couldn't even tell why what I was watching was supposed to be important. Ultimately, it shows that very little to no research was done for this movie. The actors apparently had no background whatsoever in acting, as everyone was about as expressive as a brick wall. I tried to sympathize with its creators, oh how I tried. This movie was worse than Legend of Chun-Li, and anyone that has seen that movie cannot fathom the complete and utter waste of time that "White Wall" provides.

The movie is an interesting take on the whole post apocalyptic genre. It isn't anything new or particularly original, but it does deliver its own spin on a movie done a lot of times. I liked that the world wasn't such a ridiculous deviation from life prior to the disaster. The gangs weren't leather clad freaks like a Mad Max movie. People weren't all crazy and roaming around robbing each other. They had their normal jobs and lives. There was just an somewhat oppressive government trying to maintain control, and small cells of people rebelling against that system.

The movie looked good and had a decent idea, but the acting was very flat. Not one of the characters delivers a convincing performance. So none of the scenes have any emotional impact. This is probably due in large part to the stilted dialogue in the script. In the hands of a better write and director, I could see a big time Hollywood blockbuster. As it stands, it probably isn't worth much of your attention.