2025 · action · sci-fi · comedy
Afterburn
Directed by J.J. Perry1h 46m2025
Set against the backdrop of a postapocalyptic Earth whose Eastern Hemisphere was destroyed by a massive solar flare, leaving what life remains mutated from radiation and fallout. The story revolves around a group of treasure hunters who extract such objects as the Mona Lisa, the Rosetta Stone and the Crown Jewels while facing rival hunters, mutants and pirates.
Our read: Afterburn (2025) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive action · sci-fi · comedy entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured action / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- epic-stakes
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How Afterburn feels to watch.
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“You want Bautista treasure-hunting silliness across a goofy post-flare wasteland.”
Skip it tonight — You want thoughtful post-apocalypse—this is action-comedy, not serious sci-fi.
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