Director Ché Baker & Dallas Bland
Starring Billy Zane, Bruce Spence, Jake Ryan
Rated M
Score 4/6

In a post-apocalyptic world in which civilisation has crumbled. A massive electromagnetic pulse has killed all children on the planet with the exception of Molly, the daughter of Jake Slater.

Blue World Order is a kind of significant movie in the sense that it’s the second movie that I have watched in over ten years of the movie boards that has been filmed in Canberra the other being Sotiris Dounoukos’ 2016 movie Joe Cinque’s Consolation.

Even though it has been ages since I have been to any of the locations that Blue World Order filmed at it was good to see local locations on screen. Scratch that I was proud to see them on screen. There are people out there who seem to demand that their science fiction is based in some reality. To those people I say Blue World Order might not be for you. Personally, I would have liked even the vaguest of explanations of who the virus in the worked, though I also felt that directors Ché Baker and Dallas Bland delivered something that was fun and watchable. Stephen Hunter and Jake Ryan worked well together, and It was also good to see familiar faces in the form of Bruce Spence and Jack Thompson cast in the movie.
Some of the action sequences did seem to have a slow pace to them but I suppose that could be due to the film’s budget. I watched Blue World Order after buying it on iTunes (slight spoiler) and though I did like seeing Telstra tower blow up, I really think that this would have been cooler to see on a cinema screen.