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A future cult classic. I've often criticized director Ridley Scott but never his taste or understanding of what great cinema is (just his ability to reproduce it). Here we get an insane cast try their hardest to make human sense of the first ever script by one the world's greatest living writers, Cormac McCarthy, who has fared significantly better with other people adapting his novels (No Country for Old Men, The Road). This though is unlike anything in cinema and almost has its own entire language, one that falls down constantly but is often transcendent in ways most films never are. Horrible, dark, bleak and with indelible dialogue, Scott needs to treat this to a directors cut and shave off at least some of the rough edges to Cormack's script and the near impenetrable story and this one will be looked back on.