Here’s another amazing videogame adaptation that rocks from the word go. Like 2023 The last of usFallout (based on Bethesda Softworks’ role-playing video game franchise) is also set in a post-apocalyptic world. Here too, a young woman has to go through dangerous places with the help of friends and obstacles in the way of enemies.

Like a feature film length debut The last of usJonathan Nolan’s directorial debut FalloutTitled ‘The End’, it clocks in at 74 minutes and introduces the main players in a dark, dusty landscape reminiscent of Nolan’s sci-fi Western series. Westworld.

We open in Los Angeles in 2077, where famed Hollywood cowboy star Cooper Howard (Walton Goggins) is performing with his daughter at a kid’s birthday party (a man’s gotta do what he can). to pay). The world seems to be stuck in a time warp, with boxy televisions, women in flared skirts. Crazy Manand the insanity of nuclear attack and “red under the bed” – thanks to the modern Prometheus.

As the violently colored cake is being cut and passed around, a nuclear attack occurs and the world goes to hell. The scene jumps forward 219 years where people live in underground bunkers called vaults. Vault 33’s Lucy (Ella Purnell) is cleared to marry a man from Vault 32. The wedding day goes horribly wrong with many dead, dismembered people, the result of surface raiders led by Lee Moldauer (Sarita Chaudhary).

Lucy’s father Hank (Kyle McLachlan) is captured and Lucy decides to go upstairs to get her father back. On the surface, the Brotherhood of Steel “uses pre-war technology to find pre-war tech, to convince people not to use pre-war technology.” Maximus (Aaron Moton), a squire, is given the chance to serve the irritable Knight Titus (Michael Rappaport) on an important mission — to find Dr. Siggy Wilzig (Michael Emerson) who is traveling with a dog. .

Cooper, after a nuclear holocaust, has become a gunslinger and a ghost. It turns out that everyone is interested in Wilzig – Maximus, Ghoul and Lucy, who hopes to trade the doctor for her father.

Alliances are made and broken, and truth and lies are exposed, as Lucy, Maximus and Ghoul journey into the heart of darkness. Lucy’s brother, Norm (Moisés Arias), and her cousin, Chet (Dave Register), discover that the vault isn’t all roses, champagne, sweetness and light, because there are some pretty dark secrets in there too.

As our three travelers make their way through the Wasteland as uneasy allies, temporary friends or outright enemies, we’re shown the past, and Walt-Tech and Bud Skins (Michael Esper) being “on top” of their time. Ridiculous rise with the concept of Hunters” and management, the all-powerful vigilantes. Cooper’s wife, Barb (Frances Turner), appears to have drunk the Kool-Aid, much to Cooper’s dismay.

While opinion among sports fans is sharply divided (Nolan himself is an avid player), Fallout Offers plenty of adrenaline-charged thrills for newcomers, as well as easter eggs and callbacks for gaming loyalists. Eight episodes zip along on neatly parallel tracks of humor and horror. Guns circle the mass murders with a digital display exhorting people to “please remain calm”, while the suicides’ dinner table looks like a sepia-toned vision of a mad master and The horrified corpses are reminiscent of Pompeii.

Ella Purnell as Lucy and Kyle MacLachlan as Hank in Stills from ‘Fallout’ Photo credit: Prime Video

Reminiscent of Wayne and Garth, two stoners from Super Duper Mart. Wayne’s WorldWhile the irony of the election in the vaults makes you laugh until you cry. game of thrones And recently 3 Body problemComposer Ramin Javadi does a great job with the score, while sweet, sunny pop standards by music legends including Perry Como, The Ink Spots, Bing Crosby and Johnny Cash brutalize bones, digits and skulls in time. They grow to crush.