i haven not see def con 4 for several year and if it as bad a i remember it i hope to never see it again . the story be grim and lack credibility . a space station witness the third world war and a trio of survivor wait for the radiation level to drop so they can return to earth and and when they return they find that the survivor be well arm barbarian where it survival of the fit this movie doesn not concern itself with the intellect of post apocalypse author like john wyndham or john christopher and it try to be similar in genre to the like of mad max etc . the problem be that it doesn not have the budget to do so . we see no devastated city and most of the action take place in north american woodland which be an obvious budgetery descion on the part of the producer and not a creative one . there probably wasn not much of a movie to start with but if there be the exploitive scene take it down to an even low level . for example the hero walk through woodland ( do i mention most of the action take place in the stick . ) and come across a bunch of survivor who be carve up a roast dinner a human leg . there another scene with a severed arm and a couple of other gory scene . i know that the like of 28 day later and the omega man suffer from gap in logic but at least theyre entertaining and enthral unlike this contrive unsympathetic mess .