Allegiance of Powers

This, my friends, is a work of art.When I sat down to watch this movie, what I received was nothing like what I had expected. We start with a timeline that's been completely flipped on its head. You as the viewer are like an infant, complete naivete. But as you travel though the ins and outs of this film...

You gain enlightenment.

This movie has everything. You'll laugh, you'll cry. It's really that deep.

After 8 minutes I wanted to well I better not say that. Okay I wanted everyone in it to go away.

This poor disc, being force to hold this movie. I weep for it, it would have been kinder to put a dog colonoscopy on it. Literally feel like suing to get 80 mins of my life back, cant believe I paid actual money to see this

I enjoyed its unique style. This movie has got beat up a lot because of the low production values and perceived poor acting, but some of those things are stylistic choices (such as the deliberate over-acting in the Sin-City movies) that I think worked. Rather than trying making comic book scenes look real like big budget comic movies do, they went the other way and made the movie look and feel more like a comic book.

The dialogue is not organic, but it isn't organic in comic books either. In comics, the characters mostly speak in the language of exposition because that medium requires it in order to work well; and that unusual style of dialogue is reproduced here. Is it cheesy? Sure, but dialogue in comics is cheesy. It adds to the overall feel of reading a comic book in a new way.

The thing I like most about this movie is how the characters and plot are slowly revealed in an intriguing way, gradually giving just enough information to keep the story moving while maintaining the mystery of the events leading up to the film.

It's definitely not for everyone, but if you watch it with the mentality of reading a dark and gritty comic book instead of expecting your Marvel movie itch to be scratched; there is merit to it's unusual style.

Director Gerald Crum, if one could be so bold as to call him that, clearly went to the Ed Wood School of Film. IMDB says this 'film' had a $2k budget. Doubtful. Pretty sure they could have bought either a script, an actor, or a camera for $2000. This project had none of those things. They obviously just rounded up some homeless folks, pointed a first generation iPhone at them, and told them to start talking. "Talk about what?" they asked. Gerald said, "It doesn't matter."