It was very good at the shock and awe of it all, but the problem was after the bombs went off, nobody did what they were supposed to. Everybody kept trying to survive and have children, which means being permanently stuck in the stone age. The vast majority of people who COULD survive, MUST die to ensure a non-dystopian future, sadly that is how it has to be.
The only way forward is for most people to give up. If everyone who CAN possibly survive does, that means nobody has any excess of food and resources, only a small percentage should survive, so that humanity can make progress towards the future, remove the rubble, build more efficiently, grow enough food, etc. Instead, they continue to HAVE CHILDREN, despite KNOWING they are dooming the rest of humanity.
You would think that without governmental bureaucracy, people would actually THINK, but apparently not.
When the population is at it's minimum, there should be an abundance of food for everyone, not just enough to get by. That is why we have the problems we do today, there simply isn't enough for all of us. A nuclear apocalypse, while being a world ending scenario, could change that forever, but people continue being selfish, even after the world has ended.
I did enjoy the movie and I think it's one of the best depictions of nuclear war ever made, if I was judging it based only on that I'd give it 5 stars, but the actions of the survivors and the remaining government take 1.5 stars off this genuinely good film.
3.5/5 [sadly I can't do half-stars, so I'll give it a four, but my true rating is 3.5/5]