I hope it can be seen as more than good. Take a look at the award nominations for this film at IMDB.

Well anonymous, I guess i should have explained why i felt it was good rather than a great movie. I must say that my reviews represent my personal feelings and not others. First, I watched Testament over twenty years ago and just recently in the last few weeks. I reached the same feelings than and now. I felt the movie first of all was too predictable and i could see half way through how the movie was going to end so i could argue beyond half way i didn't feel i needed to watch anymore. Second, there wasn't any memeroble characters or anyone other than the mother that stood out. Third, The direction of the movie dosen't give the viewers any understanding if hamlin is dying from just the intial readation burst or just fallout or both. That begs the question why wouldn't you try to leave Hamlin and save your family. The writers and direction leaves you with the feeling of helplessness and one may argue that this is the case. All in all Testament is a (good) movie but not a great movie and its not a movie i wouild watch again.

I watched Testament 2 years ago for the 1st time because I love post-apocalyptic movies. The movie was interesting but dreadfully sad. All I kept thinking throughout this movie was, "why are these people walking around above ground exposing themselves to radiation?" How do you go on as if nothing happened after a nuclear attack? Doesn't anyone in this town know anything about the effects of radiation? Of course, this movie was intended to discourage the powers that be from waging nuclear war because if they did, everyone everhwhere would die, if not from the initial blasts, then from the effects of the radiation. Well duh, if they expose themselves to the radiation they will die! If they stayed in bomb shelters, basements, etc. most would probably have lived. Worth watching though.

I disagree.

The fact that people were walking around, trying to live their daily lives is a testament in itself. The denial, the shock, the sense of wanting to make Everything All Right Again is a very human characteristic.

I find this film to be emotionally devastating and, like Threads, the utter futility of such a situation. We're used to calling situations like 9/11 a "national distaster". Small potatoes compared to this.

In the aftermath of World War III there are no heroes, only victims who take longer to die.

I think that this movie didn't really flow. We watched in my AP English class this week and I just felt like it skipped from part to part. It really threw me off when I saw the kid's bottom bleeding from the radiation. Carol must have been a strong mother. I had to write a movie review over it and came at a lost of words. Showed a lot in a short period.

Saw this movie when it first came out and damn near cried. Most movies are givien a happy or optimistic ending. At that time, people kept expecting some rabbit to pop out of a hat and save the day. but, the day was over, and the people lost. People didn't then, and don't now, know what to do with a movie that shows the futility of an atomic apocalypse. Where do you go, when you have nowhere to run? Stay in their bomb shelter? You try staying in a small place like that for day after day, week after week. This is more of a drama of a death of a dream than an action oriented movie of a bunch of people fighting the good fight and winning. I say, see it and weep, we have learned little since then.