Rating: 8 out of 10, one of the favorite movies of my youth that holds up extremely well. They shot the scenes in L.A. early on Sunday mornings and it was so well done and appropriately eerily empty.. It is funny to see the differences between the races back then, with some of the dialogue that would be considered outright racist nowadays. Cash is very good and militant in a way I remember from that time. This movie took some chances, including the first black white romance in a major film. I think the writers had a lot of fun making the last woman left in the world African American, Heston didn't seem to mind. Heston, for all the flak he took for his NRA days, was a huge movie star and it's obvious he was a generous actor and he dominates the screen when he's on. The special effects are the worst, but typical of the time, where did they get that color for blood - almost comical. This is the same story that they tried to recently re-do with Will Smith and this is so much better.
MVP: Heston as Neville, the last man standing, at least for most of the movie
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