 You're probably wondering why I'm rating this movie a 10. Okay this is a low-budget contrived effort at turning us all into Christian zombies, but at a pure entertainment perspective its a hoot. Nobody will admit it, but basically all modern Faith-based movies suck. The Ten Commandments was the last one that was worth watching. This movie has all the stupid hollywood elements (boneheaded plot, bad script, terrible directing) yet lays off the graphic violence. Personally after about 25 years of seeing people getting shotgunned/machinegunned in TV and film, its a welcome change to see them pan AWAY when somebody gets shot. Whats so amazing about this film is the cast! Michael York, Michael Ironside, many notable supporting actors, and of course Casper Van Dien. Okay, well MOST of the cast is notable. Casper puts in his best performance since Starship Troopers (its okay to laugh at this point, I am). Michael York really shows that he's a great actor considering what he has to work with, and Michael Ironside plays his typical badass role, lifted almost verbatim from "Totall Recall"...sheesh he even uses the same leather jacket. The only flub was when he was jealous of Michael York's character and mentioned something like "but I'M supposed to be the lamb". Kind of a poofta comment, but ya know biblical prophecy just doesn't translate very well so I let him slide. The low speed car chase was entertaining, if not just plain funny, and watching Casper trying to figure out what was obvious to the audience was like watching a highschool football jock take a spelling test. The final special effects sucked but being a B-movie Sci-Fi fan I'm willing to let that slide too. All this movie needed was Walter Koenig... About the author: Steve Savage is a cracker-white honkey. You may read another review, submit your own, or return home. |
