Holstra Boring, long, and too preachy.

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Phillida Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Tom On a lonely road at 4 a.m., a police officer has set up a road block and is stopping cars from going any farther in either direction. He stops an old man and his granddaughter, a man driving an eighteen-wheeler and the hitchhiker he picked up, a rich boozy man and his girlfriend, a married couple and a man on a scooter. After getting messages over his radio, he tells everyone that the roads need to be clear because the cities were being evacuated because of an impending nuclear attack. The officer decides they will use the truck trailer as a bomb shelter. As they prepare, there are a lot of tensions among the people.This is Not a Test is an awful movie for a lot of reasons. This movie appears to have been shot on a budget of about $13. No one here can act and there is certainly no direction being done. The movie is static and stifling because there is only one location. You never leave the lonely road for the entire film. The set up makes no sense. If the roadblock is being set up to keep the roads clear to evacuate the cities, why block traffic both ways? If cars are going to be coming from both directions, where are they going? And how exactly would the four cars the cop pulled over have clogged the roads? How is the truck trailer going to hold up to a nuclear blast? They ask the cop how long they will have to stay in the truck and he says about 2 weeks. 2 weeks? The half-life of plutonium is something like 5000 years. The granddaughter, for an unexplained reason, does not want to get in the truck so she, the guy on the scooter and grandpa run off down the road. Oh right, that's how you survive a nuclear explosion: you just outrun it. Eventually grandpa remembers a cave where the two young people can hide while he sacrifices himself to the bomb. Hey gramps, you couldn't of thought of the cave an hour ago while everyone was piling into a useless trailer? I could go on and on about the reasons this film is terrible, but I won't.

tavm When I watched this rare movie from the '60s on YouTube, I thought I'd look at a quality low-budget film about regular peoples' reactions when they've been warned of an impending nuclear attack. I thought I'd hear some intelligent conversation about what to do or how to react or how the characters' personalities would be effected in any way. Intead, I got melodrama about some stereotypes' reactions that reflect their one-dimensional characterizations filled with contrived dialogue done in a contrived manner with a plot that totally falls apart in the last five minutes. The deputy sheriff's actions in the last part are especially cringe-worthy. So unless you're willing to see this real howler of a drama, I do not recommend This Is Not a Test.

B H I disagree with the 'film expert's' analysis of this movie. This is a 1960's attempt to portray the social/psychological dynamics of people facing a nuclear war. It is meant to be chaotic and disjointed as the social structures, concepts of authority, relationships and the lives of people are torn apart by dread, stress and certain doom. The end of the movie is the capstone that explains it all as the bomb hits.This is one in a long list of 'cold war' movies. It is amazing to observe the ideals portrayed by the writers living in the 1960's era in comparison to social structures in the latter half of the the first decade in the new millennium.

Thorsten-Krings This is a fine example of a very well executed low or no budget movie. The topic: the end of the world. A cross section of society is stopped at a roadblock by the psycho sheriff from hell waiting for doom, i.e. nuclear missiles. The drama is set in real time so we basically witness the last 72 minutes of the world and the drama that unfolds between the people waiting or trying to find a way to survive. There are no shock effects, just emotions, drama and melodrama. However, the drama is gripping and very well written. It is amazing that a film that's set at a cross roads somewhere in the middle of nowhere with no special effects whatsoever can make such compelling viewing.