City Limits Reviews

Stock post-apocalyptic sci-fi on a low budget, from the production team that gave us the much superior ANDROID. Set in the near future, CITY LIMITS depicts a world in which plague has killed off most of the adults. Only children remain, and they have splintered into various motorcycle gangs that battle over turf. The film follows John Stockwell, an orphaned boy found and raised by James Earl Jones at his cabin in the country. Now a young man, Stockwell goes off to the city to see whether he can join a group of youths known as the "Clippers" who run the city. Once in the city, Stockwell wanders onto the grounds of the Sunya Corporation and is almost captured. Robby Benson, the young man in charge, is trying to get the gangs to give up their turf in exchange for food, alcohol, and electricity so that he can revive the city. Stockwell escapes the corporation and makes it to the Clippers. Meanwhile the leader of a rival gang, Danny De La Paz, has sold his forces to the corporation and is now being pressured to deliver the Clippers to Benson. CITY LIMITS is basically an old western script with a bit of ROAD WARRIOR thrown in for good measure. The sometimes laughably thin script--padded out with footage of roaring motorcycles and virtually ceaseless voiceover narration supplied by Jones--is partly reedeemed by a strong cast of young actors. Despite its flaws, CITY LIMITS is a fairly entertaining time-waster and good evidence of what can be done on a small budget.