AboveDeepBuggy Some things I liked some I did not.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

one-nine-eighty George Peppard (The A Team) and Jan-Michael Vincent (Airwolf) star in this post apocalyptic road movie. Don't expect a "Mad Max" style film with high adrenaline no heartbreaking emotions like in "The Road" This post apocalyptic film from 1977 has nuclear survivors travelling cross country from Bakersfield, CA, to Albany, NY, via Las Vegas, Detroit and Salt Lake City in a all terrain Nuclear bunker/ Winnebago/ mobile home. There are oversized irradiated scorpions, flesh eating cockroaches, and even mutated rednecks. The opening of the film is the best part of the film, lots of tension with cutting music as nukes and counter nukes knock the planet off its axis causing the world's atmosphere to dramatically change and the sky to ripple with luminous colours. If the nukes haven't wiped humanity out then the weather will have. The film was supposed to be a massive Sci-Fi spectacular, if only a small film called "Star Wars" hadn't been released only weeks before this was released. This is a bit of a cheesy relic and drags at times. I can't say it's only dated due to being released in 1977 because of Star Wars being released the same year. Nothing exciting really happens and while the journey is clearly defined there aren't any twists and turns to keep you on the edge of your seat. I can't say I particularly enjoyed this but I can see a lot of potential, it's just a pity that that potential wasn't realized or utilized fully. 3 out of 10.

bkoganbing George Peppard and Jan-Michael Vincent star in Damnation Alley a story about some guys in the Air Force deep in underground bunkers who launch a retaliatory missile strike at the Soviet Union. Of course they and their Soviet counterparts are safe inside while the rest of the world incinerates. But this story isn't concerned with the Soviet experience.Topping that all off the general in charge Murray Hamilton goes bonkers in the bunker and blows it all up, killing nearly everyone inside. All that's left is Peppard, Vincent, Paul Winfield, and Kip Niven. Vincent and Winfield have kind of lost any Air Force discipline, but Niven is still a good Airman and Peppard is in command. They decide to take some all terrain vehicle the Air Force has developed for just such emergency from the Nevada site of their missile base to Albany where they've gotten a signal from what might be other survivors. Of course it could be the signal that the Australians got from San Francisco in On The Beach that amounted to nothing. Still off our fearless four go, leaving behind the desert to some rather large scorpions that have been nuclear enhanced.The rest of the story is the trip east across a nuclear devastated USA. Best stop is in Salt Lake City, where as Winfield describes large armor plated cockroaches have taken over. Along the way Winfield and Niven are lost and Peppard and Vincent pick up Dominque Sanda and Jackie Earle Haley best known for the Bad News Bears.Other than some special effects that were OK, nothing more, there's not much else to recommend Damnation Alley. For fans of Peppard and Vincent and some science fiction buffs.

Brian T. Whitlock (GOWBTW) The future can be exciting or it can be scary. In "Damnation Alley", it can be interesting. Here you have two Air Force soldiers: 1st Lt. Jake Tanner (Jan-Michael Vincent) and Major Sam Denton (George Peppard, 1928-94) who are stationed at a missile silo in California. They set off a missile retaliation strike at some oncoming nuclear missiles which results in devastation. After the attack, radiation and mutation results. Following the aftermath, the two men decide to travel to Albany, New York to find radio transmission. They are set off on the trek in a Landmaster. These vehicles are very durable, especially in a spot called "Damnation Alley". On of the vehicles gets caught in a storm that kills an Airman ( Kip Niven). The other survivor joins the other two, goes to Las Vegas, meet another survivor and meets his end in Salt Lake City by some very hungry cockroaches. Throughout the travel, the encounters become more perilous after the other. And it's amazing that the Landmaster can travel on water as well. Interesting movie, a more interesting novel. It's fun once you take the time to understand it. 3 out of 5 stars

Rob van Opzeeland In Damnation alley we see Jan Michael Vincent (Stringfellow Haweye from Airwolf) and George Peppard (Hannibal from the A team) acting alongside each other. Well, acting... that's such a strong word. They're on screen and read lines, let's be honest about it.Anyway, in this sorry little screen-filler the US and Russia have destroyed the world with all out nuclear war, which is shown in the first couple of scenes. This is where things already start going terribly wrong. Nuclear war has never been portrayed with less emotion than this. No one on the military base seems to be shocked or even really mind this is happening. We only see a couple of explosions while a bored voice reads out the names of cities that have been hit, and everybody is watching as if they're looking at an episode of "Little house on the prairie".A couple of years pass, and we join the action again when the world is starting to recover a little bit. We see Jan Michael Vincent ride back to the base on a motorbike with a girl riding on the back, when they get attacked by giant scorpions, a special effects sequence that is one of the most embarrassing I've ever seen in a movie. Some people might say that I shouldn't pick on that because it's an old movie, but when you keep in mind that the 1950s version of War of the Worlds had more convincing special effects than this movie, you can't really defend the quality as a product of its time. It was dated and unconvincing then, it's absolutely terrible to watch now.So, moving on. The bunker that survived the nuclear holocaust then explodes because of some dude dropping a cigarette on a playboy centerfold poster. I'm not making this up, that's what actually happens. So with no base to live in anymore, the four survivors decide to move out in two heavily armoured trucks that consist of two parts each held together by what seems to be a piece of table linen. Table linen is of course known for its amazing strength and capability of keeping radiation outside. But sure I could have accepted that.What I find more baffling is that no such expedition has apparently been undertaken before. Everybody just decided to keep hanging round at the base, even though they owned completely functioning anti-radiation vehicles. Those must have been some pretty good issues of Playboy.So I will try to continue the absurd plot line, which thankfully, but weirdly, didn't involve any more giant scorpions. They move into the nuclear wasteland en route to Albany, when they get hit by a storm that destroys one of the trucks, and kills one of the crew members. No real drama in that scene, it just sort of happens and then we move on. They move out to Vegas and find a woman living there. She offers to explain how she survived, but she never does. Instead we get her telling us about the singing career she was pursuing before the nuclear war. But then we never hear her sing.Before they meet the woman however there is one slightly well done scene where the three men from the army base play the slot machines like children gone crazy, and in the background we hear people laughing and talking, as if the casino is still as busy as it used to be. Thank god for one decent idea, if not wholly original.Anyway, at the next village they get attacked by 2 inch long cockroaches, which leads one of the men to say "they are huge", even though he's been living in a desert infested by scorpions as big as alligators. Luckily, and predictably, he then gets eaten by the cockroaches. Although he was best friends with the Jan Michael Vincent character, he is never mentioned again. The three survivors escape, and pick up this young boy who has been living on his own in the desert. He agrees to join them if he can learn to ride the motorcycle Jan Michael Vincent brought with him on the trip. Another thing we never actually see happen in the movie, although later he is offered to drive the armoured vehicle.We then get the inevitable evil survivors scene, where they run into three hicks who survived the nuclear war as well, and who try to rape the lady they picked up in Vegas. The young boy saves the day and they drive on to Detroit. Las Vegas - Detroit - Albany. Seems like a little strange route to take, but maybe that's because they have to go around "Damnation Alley", I don't know. The whole damnation alley is never explained at all in the film, so it could run from Texas to Iowa or something.Then of course while in Detroit, they get hit by a tidal wave. What? Yes you heard me, somehow the sea made it all the way over the rocky's and hits Detroit. The vehicle, which is broken then almost gets destroyed by the water, but they survive. And hey presto, they're on dry land, and about a two minute drive by motorbike from Albany, which somehow is the only place in America that has not been affected at all by the nuclear holocaust.Now, I really like B movies, even when they are absurd. Especially when they are absurd actually. But this one is just inconsistent, incoherent, and boring. The events described above are all presented to the viewer in an utterly unconvincing and unentertaining way. I was surprised I actually made it to the end. If you're considering watching it, don't. It's a waste of time and will just leave you wondering, what the hell was the point of all that?