Cast:
Neil Breen (A.I. / Thgil), Kathy Corpus (Amanda), Abraham Rodriguez (Boy Astronomer), Taylor Sydney (Girl Astronomer), Taylor Johnson (Girl Astronomer), James D. Smith (Professor), Jason Morciglio (Jose - Smuggler), Chaize Macklin (Kim - Immigrant), Donna T. Rogers (Dana - Smuggler), and Tom Bonello (Tim - Guard) Written, Produced, and Directed by Neil Breen (#1767 - Fateful Findings, #1925 - Double Down, #2146 - I Am Here....Now)
Review:
"Artificial Intelligence from far into the future arrives to immediately CLEANSE the human species of millions of humans who are harmful to other humans. A VISIONARY, REVOLUTIONARY FILM which pushes the human species to the limits of controversial, thought-provoking actions."
Admittedly, Turkey Week is an occasion to possibly pick low-hanging fruit in terms of low-scale "films". But it is a fun tradition, and it is worthwhile to seek just what kind of insanity can come around from Neil Breen here with his fourth film, one that was first shown in 2016. You might wonder just how any of these films differ from the last one, and, well, that quote you see on top is actually on the poster. Apparently, the film had a bit of crowdfunding for post-production. As was the case earlier, Breen is behind a few other things beside directing that you can find in the credits, such as production design, casting, wardrobe, craft services and so on (in the credits, Breen gets cute by listing companies with "N" or "B" that actually are just him). The next Breen movie to grace a film screen was Twisted Pair (2018), for which I'm sure folks enjoyed paying for the movie to order from Breen himself to come through in a few weeks (remember that in his film posters, the screentime is even advertised to you).
You might remember that Breen's previous film before this one was Fateful Findings (2013), which involved a climax that had politicians admit to their crimes before killing themselves en masse. His first film Double Down (2007) had him wear a cut-off vest with medals on it (which appears here, somehow). You might wonder just how Breen handles the looming problems of evil smugglers terrorizing immigrants or other terrible things such as bankers, bankers, and politicians. Well, it is plain simple for the AI: he just makes them vanish (or in one truly strange instance, our lead character puts on a suit to be a part of green screening someone's place to listen to them admit their evildoing and then walk out after blowing it up). Amid various shots involving a red dot or Breen being green-screened with a tiger (take a drink anytime you see either on screen, seriously) is a movie where Breen takes several minutes to tell people about the people he just made disappear so they can make their own revolution, since apparently just making "bad people" go away is not enough to just have a better society. The best thing to say about the movie is that Breen's strange messiah ideas do not drag beyond 95 minutes here and you get plenty of moments that are lucid in the Breenest sense of the word. Trying to make sense of the actors here is as futile as trying to catch rainwater with a harmonica. The one part with children involves kid astronomers and a professor that they help wheel out to check out the hubbub. I think the biggest curiosity about Breen the filmmaker is that Breen the actor seemingly never changes in terms of his presence on screen beyond making himself a would-be messiah. He emotes and says his lines in a straight-line manner that is such a strange thing to watch because one knows he really does seem to believe what he communicates in terms of distrust for certain lobbies and other things, such as in one instance his character stating his cure for a guy's PTSD (remember back in Fateful Findings that a Breen character tried to cure a girl's cancer). He goes around telling folks to be a leader (not a follower) while in the same sentence telling them to go back to where they came from. The fact that the poster for the film is from the last scene of the film (involving several people being pasted over and over again to make it look like a pile of bodies in the desert because [REASON NOT FOUND]) is the cherry on top of this ridiculous cake. As a whole, one might say if you've seen a Breen movie, you've seen them all, but the diggers of amusement and the curious might have something to chuckle at with a movie that wears its beliefs on a sleeve (that may or may not be dirty) for familiar ridiculousness. He earns a star mostly because at least one doesn't see a lazy filmmaker involved, merely just finding one with, well, Breen-ese. There may just be a bit of Breenlish in all of us when it comes to self-important visions but I sure as hell don't want to see what that would mean for me, where trying to understand which of these first four movies is the standout is like comparing a kick to the knee to a kick of one's groin.
Overall, I give it 1 out of 10 stars.
Come one, come all for Turkey Week Five, an occasion to mark Thanksgiving with reviews every day of the holiday week from November 24 to November 30. I can't reveal all of my surprises but I'm sure you'll enjoy the works of filmmakers such as Ted V. Mikels, Bob Clark, and more.
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