Cries of the Unborn

I really liked The Life Zone so I was pretty excited to find out that this was the sequel. The acting was great from everyone but (most of) the jury cast. That acting was too stiff and that aspect of the story was completely unrealistic. No deliberation would become some narcissist's morality play. The jury spent zero time focusing on the law, not to mention the verbiage was more geared toward a civil action than a criminal trial. The story was good, just the morality play part was ridiculous. And is there some reason nearly every person in this movie, including the children who were supposedly born here at Life Zone, has a foreign accent? That was so weird and distracting.

This thoughtful drama seems to be inspired by '12 Angry Men' as what at first seems a clear case for a guilty verdict becomes increasingly questionable as the jurors deliberate and consider all aspects of the evidence. Some added supernatural touches make it all the more interesting. Good script and performances all around, but the special effects are limited by the size of the budget.

I wanted to vomit throughout most of this movie. Thankfully, the justice system, although faulty, doesn't operate on false sciences and skewed beliefs. I am actively religious and this movie was sickening. There were no valid point or excuses made and the fact that they added the whole kidnapping/legal scenario was honestly scary, in that they were trying to validate what the "culprits" even did to the main character in question. Weird and pointless. No self respecting network should carry this mess!

It's probably not Citizen Kane, but the pro aborts trashing the film force me to give it a good review. And some talk about free choice. What about the choice taken away from the baby?

This movie is bad for two reasons. The first is it's simply a bad movie from start to finish. But the second reason is that it's a kinda remake of "The Life Zone". If you haven't seen "The Life Zone" then don't bother because it's equally bad. What this movie does is takes a slightly different approach to it and leaves out some of the elements including the weak twist ending.

Seven years ago three women were kidnapped from an abortion clinic and were forced to give birth. The people that did this finally admit their guilt and the whole thing goes to trial. It's revealed that two of the women that were kidnapped were actually in on the whole thing. In other words all of this, including keeping them hostage for seven months and forcing them to give birth was done for the sake of one woman and one woman only.

And yet throughout it all, this is painted as a good thing. These people did all this to ensure one baby was to be born and for this they feel they should be rewarded. They mentally tortured a woman for seven months and forced her to give birth. In what universe is this a good thing? Remember free will? Obviously the filmmakers don't.

This is just another anti-abortion propaganda movie that thinks it's more clever than it actually is.