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While there are a couple of adequate aspects to the film, such as the reasonable lighting, basically competent camera work, it's a fundamentally difficult to watch movie, both in terms of the story telling which is laboured, and quite frankly the premise of the film, as pointed out in many of the negative reviews here.

The characters are unlikeable, while at the same time being one-dimensional, existing only to serve as an unsubtle representation of what the writers feel are positive characteristics - which can be summarised as being of non-European ancestry, muslim, homosexual, or politically left wing.

The counterpoint to this is a depiction of those who do not share those characteristics as being evil, to the point of being comical. Think a depiction of Germans in a 1950s movie about World War 2, in terms of subtlety.

Dialogue is uninspiring. And often unpleasant, with scene after scene of foul-mouthed diatribes by primary characters, who seek to project those ideas onto the chosen bad guys - while actually demonstrating their own internalised hatred of 'others' outside their group.

And this is where the film becomes more of a political lecture, instructing the audience that there are good people, and then there are bad people - who are white, heterosexual, and Christian. With such heavy-handedness the film manages to score an own-goal, by being the intolerance it allegedly aimed to reject.

How you treat this film will depend on your political viewpoint, for example if you are left wing, then this will serve to reinforce your world view that white, straight men are evil. If you are politically right wing, you will shake your head at the misrepresentation of reality. Everyone in between will simply switch off after 15 minutes.

No idea what the point of this was??? I spent $7 to rent this and as far as I'm concerned it was pointless... just a character study of several people in a no win situation and a little gay stuff thrown in...

If there was a negative value available to rate this movie, I would give it less than 0. The premise of this movie is so absurd that it deserves to be thrown immediately in a dustbin of history.

The movie has a weird story does not make any sense. I don't know what the movie is trying to prove. It has a bad plot which is dragged for 1hr 30mins. Please save yourself time don't watch this movie.

From start to finish something just felt off about this movie, and I usually love the dystopian future "what if" setting. Some people have mentioned the political undertones but I think the problems with this movie run deeper. My biggest gripe would probably be the dialogue so I'll just focus on that. A lot of it seemed really contrived and on-the-nose and as ridiculous as people can be out there I just can't imagine hearing anyone in real life talk or act the way they did in the movie when their lives are in danger. It's kind of bizarre actually because the acting/line delivery itself wasn't bad. Not gonna post spoilers, though I will just say that surely there were more important things to be discussing in those situations than some of the stuff they quarrelled about. It's like it was written by teenagers or something. Sorry but I'm just being honest. It really ruined what could have otherwise been an okay movie.

Quite often I like to try and watch a movie without knowing anything about it. It was a free Showtime weekend, so I taped it without knowing anything about it. 25 minutes them I had to go to ImBD to find out what was the problem with this movie. Five more minutes and it was even more garbage so I stopped watching it. It's amazing when free should mean they should have to pay me to watch this movie. Crap like this makes it so I can't watch a movie without knowing about it before hand. I watched a different movie two days ago and it was amazing and I had never heard of it. Sadly, most of the crap that comes up for free on Showtime is exactly that, crap.

Piece of absolute feces. They could have made a film that would have set America on fire, a cult classic of the first order. A dystopian Deep State left totalitarian government being fought against by brave common red blooded American family's similar to Red Dawn. Middle American veterans and kids running and gunning against a military/police/government lead by a cast of characters startlingly similar to the democrats currently in power would have been monumental and sent the ruling class screaming on their knees. You chose the wrong side of history and just ended up with badly made movie with uninspiring cast of Hollywood cliche completely out of touch Effetism.

Many of the reviews of this film are coming from a political view. While the film is political in nature (or at least the backdrop setting of the film is) one should judge the film on the plot, pacing, actors and so forth.

All films have issues, and this one is no different. The "villains" of the film are put together in a reasonably logical way, (I won't delve into spoilers for anything, the plot synopsis of the film should give you enough clues as to the overarching plot) so instead I will focus on the flaws of the central characters.

That is, the two couples, and the two outsiders. The film uses micro-flashbacks to get a sense of the characters and it's both overused, and underutilized.

Overused insofar as even until the end of the film, the writers are still using these flashbacks to develop the characters and in the case of the medical intern, really should have been placed more towards the beginning of the film, but at the same time, the "reveal" (so to speak) about said intern's motivations would have been spoiled, or at least blunted, had the flashbacks come sooner in the film.

Disappointing, but I can see why it was done in the way it was. Nonetheless, they are underutilized as they could have fleshed out the world (or character motivations) far more than what was presented on the screen.

So, writing is uneven, but not a dealbreaker.

Directing was pretty well done, no glaring amateur errors that I could see. The cinematography was serviceable but relied a bit too much on close-ups for my liking.

The overall plot was pretty good I felt. No cheap twists, no Hollywood forced happy endings, only a natural progression in plot from the position the characters are thrust into, so score one for that.

The music score was a little too brash in places (especially towards the end scenes) for my taste, but it was largely serviceable.

Amusingly, this film is a sort of counterpoint to the 2020 film "The Hunt" which is currently sitting at a (overrated IMO) 6.5 whereas this film is running a 2.1, which is underrated.

If you can set your political views aside, you will find a tight little thriller worth a 7 out of 10.

I am truly embarrassed for anyone involved in this movie in any capacity.

I'm not sure who was stupid enough to put up the money for this tripe but you know what they say...a fool and his money... This was the worst exploitation of fear and insecurity I have ever had the misfortune of witnessing. I can just see the greedy little money grubbers in Hollywood wringing their hands like Monty Burns as they laughed at the zeitgeist they mistakenly believed would propel their "investment" into the stratosphere. And the righteously indignant who beat their chests thinking they were actually making a statement of consequence...as if 10,000 others hadn't already made it before them and did an infinitely better job!

Your typical "straight white male" = bad and "gay brown man"=good. This could have really been something if the producers and writers cared to tell a story instead of having an axe to grind. Too bad. Wasted effort.

This one gave me more enjoyment than it should have because it's just so cringe and you know that the writers really thought they were being clever. It's like watching a person lacking in self awareness dunking on themselves over and over again while thinking they look cool. If I have one thing nice to say about the film its that i think some of the actors are pretty talented (especially Michael Raymond-James and Nadine Malouf). I had seen Raymonde-James before in some other stuff I liked and the Gabe scenes were probably my favourite... and despite the garbage plot i found myself liking the Zabi/Gabe characters the most. The conversations in the barn were like a refuge of sanity in contrast to the idiot-level takes spouted in the rest of the film. Maybe that was the point, who knows? Either way i wouldnt recommend this to very many people because there are just so many things wrong with the plot and overall message being pushed.

Oh man. I don't know how to feel about this one and it's driving me nuts! I want to like it because as a standalone film it was good, but because it is so obviously a left-wing circle jerk of nonsense I can't bring myself to rate it positively. I even watched their YouTube watch party thing and sure enough they believe in all the usual wacky things that the modern left does. It's not subtle at all and the entire thing just oozes insincerity. If they really wanted to make it a message about finding common ground they should have first ventured outside their own echo chamber (yes, both sides have one!) and learned what the people they're depicting really think. The prisoner in this film just seemed like a caricature to bounce lefty talking points off of with none of the opposing arguments you'd find in reality. "But I'm a muslim!" Hahaha.

I want to explain in this review why some white conservatives feel the way we do about the movie. For starters, in order to like this movie I think you have to already be on board with a sizable share of liberal dogma. If you aren't, then obviously seeing the narratives ratcheted up to 11 in the most implausible way isn't going to resonate with you. For conservative white people the premise of the movie comes across as a bit of an attack and I'll tell you why. If you're at all concerned about demographic replacement for example, or even just happen to notice the amount of anti-White rhetoric put out daily by the media, it's infuriating to see a movie that the left unironically believes to show a possible and not-so-distant future. The protagonists are of course stand-ins for their real world counterparts who without a shred of self-awareness claim they are opposing fascism while attacking people and forcing them to comply with their world view, often with help from the state. Talk about an inversion of reality. The fact that the majority White population is shrinking (often to sounds of applause), that it's trendy to hate White people, and that racism towards Whites is claimed to be impossible meanwhile the entire establishment openly embraces it are all things that greatly contribute to the hate this movie gets. If you're on the left you're probably shaking your head right now but I would wager that those of you who are likely haven't been exposed to much outside of your ideological bubble. I don't mean that in a spiteful way either. Consider this: most of the mainstream and establishment media leans left, most of the entertainment industry leans left, and most of the prominent figures in Big Tech lean left. Both the left and the right are exposed to these narratives by nature of their availability and constant promotion, but only one side is bombarded with things they disagree with. Liberals don't really get that opportunity unless they actively seek out opposing views, and why would they when those same information channels will gladly tell them what the other side is like? Would you trust an entirely right-wing dominated establishment to accurately and fairly portray your views? Probably not. So that's the political reason a lot of us don't like the movie.

There are many things to dislike about the writing and overall plot as well. It seemed like the main focus of the movie should have been on the barn and not the various personal dramas between the protagonists, because the entire premise was that the person they had imprisoned held bad views and should change. Not nearly enough time was spent exploring the belief system of Gabe and his "transformation" happened way too quickly to feel authentic. This is where it falls apart for the movie because I feel like the writers wanted to misrepresent the views of their political opposition in real life by constructing a character that only half-explains their beliefs, poorly, and then just gives up on them after a little prodding as if they were never really sincere. Of course we're not going to see Gabe's points fully fleshed out or given proper context due to time constraints or other reasons, however many of the things they made Gabe say are a combination of genuine concerns and convenient "icky" pretexts that seem aimed at disqualifying them from consideration. Here's a textbook example of the conflation I'm talking about: "Allowing you to exist is a threat to the white race". That line appears tailor made to discredit what Gabe said seconds before, which was "people like you, they're actively replacing my entire race. That's just a fact". It's meant to make people who point out that White countries are the only ones being encouraged to replace or reduce their majority populations seem hateful. It is highly insulting to be portrayed like that, as if "allowing non-whites to exist is a problem" is the argument actually being made.

On the social and cultural side most of us are simply fed up with having LGBT and diversity quotas being priority number one in the media and everything else. They felt compelled with this movie to tick all the boxes and did so in such a way that it felt *extremely* forced. We should be able to criticize the overreliance on "representation as a selling point" without being called names for it. That needs to stop. The movie could have been greatly improved if even one or two things were toned down and I promise you that most people, left and right alike, are tired of it all. Only the far-left and the far-right are obsessed with these things; everyone else just wants entertaining movies. While there are other things that contributed to the hate surrounding this movie, the issues I've illustrated are a good enough starting point for anyone acting in good faith to understand. We're not just piling on for fun because it was made by the left, we're telling you precisely what angers us and to paraphrase Douglas Murray, we're done trying to convince you to be civil. If you want to pretend we're saying something we're not then that is entirely on you.

This movie speaks volumes to the world we live in today where fear and hate exists for race and orientation.

As a straight Christian white male the beginning of the movie had me thinking this was gonna be hate speech against my race and sexual orientation but it wasn't, that was my fear.

This was a movie about compassion and love. Really good acting from actors I've never seen before. Intense plot, a little slow in the beginning but good character development, once it gets going it has decent action and a truest deeper story that could teach us all where we're headed if we don't embrace one another as human beings.

We can co-exist if we let our guards down and listen to one another. We all have a story to tell. Im glad I took a couple hours to watch this one.

Just don't watch it is horrible. The movie mars attacks is by far better written and had better acting then this garbage. Don't waste your money or time watching this garbage.

A good premise. Timely and terrifying. Too bad they couldn't follow thru with a plausible script. Why in the world would people who want a White, Straight, christian America prevent those who are not from leaving the country?? Major plot holes, lousy character development, tedious dialogue. I couldn't wait for it to end.

Absolutely ridiculous. I suspect it was made by the insurrectionists since they were the more sympathetic characters. As we say in my culture, dis some bull#@%!

Another absurd and ridiculous attempt to promote and equally ludicrous leftist agenda. While I can waste your time and go into a ranting review of this badly acted, horribly directed movie with a plot more laughably fantastical than a Vin Diesel movie, I'll keep it simple. The theme of this one: White Conservative Bad. Woke Generation Good.

And there is no pun intended here. It is not so much a philosophical question, but rather: what do you want to from the movies you watch? Do you want them to be different? To make you guess where they are going instead of being able to guess every single beat? And yes there is predictable things in this too of course, but it is quite out there overall - again no pun intended.

Considering some of the decisions made recently by the Supreme Court in America, I wouldn't call this future right here that dystopian or too much in the future. Fortunately there are still more than enough people fighting the good fight. And by that I mean that metaphorically speaking, not actual fighting.

Actual fighting and action scenes can be seen here though. Because after all this is supposed to be a movie that even with the heart on the right place and a good message, has to entertain you (while schooling you - which admitedly is not the best plan). There are also some flaws in the acting department and some other things you have to suspend your disbelief with ... if you are able ... then maybe you'll find the idea is strong enough to carry the whole thing too.

I was really excited for this as I usually enjoy dystopian movies, shows, and books. But this movie had poor acting, stunted writing, and confusing/messy plotlines.

What to say about this film? Its trash. Utter trash meant to divide people. Whats really funny is some Hollywood elitist who produced this crapfest honestly thinks people are dumb enough to think this could happen.

Generally, this is a well made, well directed, decent movie, if you can get past the original premise which is unhelpful, devisive propaganda and full of poorly written stereotypes on both sides of the argument.

The downsides are that it unclear what the relationships are of the people in the house to each other and this only became clear toward the end.

The story is poorly structured with the final pier scene that should have been inserted much earlier.

Much of the acting is passable except for Nadine Malouf who is excellent.

Some plotholes didn't help or weren't fully explained, Sarah's illness, Sarah's child, the bomb, David being gay? Gabe killed off screen? Arjay being alive when captured.

Sort of a Handmaid's Tale for the alphabet sex community.

While many here are slamming this movie, I found it quite interesting. Now the acting was less than Oscar worthy however the premise of the movie is sound. As the boundaries of the U. S. Constitution are tested daily I see where the producers were going. I believe that our rights are slowly being eroded and militia organizations are actually gaining ground and memberships. You see it almost daily.

Yes the story revolves around the primise of "rounding up" people who are different. Something that has and most likely will happen again somewhere sometime. That being said it's not really what the film is about if you take an objective look and not get focused on the politics.

To me it's ultimately about the characters themselves. Them as individuals as well as as couples. Like everyone they are dealing with personal demons. The loss of a child, loss of family because of religion, sexuality. As couple it's the push and pull of trying to make their relationship work. The dog and the rescue I think are there to make the couples think and face their trueselves as well as their relationships. The Dog and Zabi talk and find our they aren't that different. The rescue causes one to face his true self.

All in all it's a good movie if you go in watching with an open mind.