CO - If you’ve ever wanted to see the origin story of “Faceless Raider #152” from the Fallout video game series, have I got a movie for you: The Divide, a post-apocalyptic thriller from Xavier Gens, the director of Hitman. Ostensibly a claustrophobic low-budget genre movie, the film takes on a bigger context as the survivors of a nuclear holocaust turn on each other for food, sex, and superiority in the absence of traditional social dynamics, and turn into stock bad guys from the post-apocalyptic future of your choice. Or maybe it’s actually a smaller context. Analyzing the means by which normal people specifically turn into Lord Humongous is arguably a little less significant than watching a microcosm of mankind gradually devolve into an animalistic state, but at least it’s something we haven’t seen before, unless you count Bellflower. And no, I will never count Bellflower.
FMV says: "This Lord of the Flies-esque post-apocalyptic thriller is entertaining in a dark, nasty and murky way. It does not hesitate to make you feel uncomfortable, and it certainly makes you think how you would react if placed in a similar scenario - making The Divide well worth watching."
Jeremy of The Daily Rotation wrote, "Director of the controversial horror film Frontier(s) and one the better video game adaptations, Hitman, Xavier Gens is for the most part, an unknown ready to breakout. He doesn’t have a particular style that can be picked out from a mile away, but he does have an eye for taking simple concepts and expanding them into richer content. Hitman could have easily been ruined if a more mainstream director took the reins, but Gens respectfully remained faithful to the series while adding enough action and flare to warrant a big screen adaptation. The Divide is a post-apocalyptic film that’s more concerned with its characters than the actual end of the world setting. That is however, both the films biggest strength and biggest weakness."
IGN chats one-on-one with the actor and genre movie icon about his new film The Divide.
