The death of lots of things. Within the first ten or so minutes of The Lost Future, we are introduced to the story of a society in need meat. We witness a successful hunt, then a raiding group of zombie like savages raiding the 'first men' that we see.
We're meant to care about the characters, and told to do this by watching slow motion death sequences, elaborate yet generic hollywood-style music. There's scantily clad women, and lean, muscular men everywhere. They talk of being the chosen of god, and survivors for a reason. There's no context to the situation these humans are in, other than the fact that they're in a movie that I'm watching.
After the attack, some of the tribe gets trapped in a cave; and three people get trapped outside. Its revealed that one of the characters can read, and he's been doing so. Reading has been a lost skill, and apparently, these people's disaster's plan was to hole up in an emergency cave, with no food or water stored there.
Enter Sean Bean, who repeats the terrifying secret: "You can read." He then explains the grizzly way in which the unfortunate trio trapped outside of the cave will become 'mutants', err, sorry, zombies; because, they were breathed on. An airborne zombie disease. Sounds great.
There's rumours of a 'powder' that an stop people from becoming mutants, which is great; but no one knows where it is. There's lots of crap that happens to people along the film's timeline, and none of it is emotionally wrenching. It is a completely awful film, with no redeeming features.
If the story was more fleshed out, with more information about how the world came to be in this state, with characters that were interesting, it'd be better. In fact, if it was Horizon: Zero Dawn: The movie (which it is, except for instead of mechanical dinosaurs, we get zombie mutants) - it might be a passable movie.
It definitely isn't a film you should watch. There's a few references to Lord of the Rings, but its so terrible, that I think I got a nosebleed watching the film. In the film, if you get a nosebleed, you turn into a mutant.
Caption: Damn, I wish I could read.
I don't understand why or how this film was made. There's a single, interesting costume late in the film that captures the post-apocalyptic mood properly, its a dress made out of plastic, held together with more plastic. There's another great scene in a library, and the cinematography improves, but it doesn't justify a watch, unless you enjoy some b-grade suffering.
Its also a film in which Sean Bean doesn't die. He only dies in the good ones.