Armageddon Gospels

An ambitious effort that falls spectacularly flat. It seems that the acting was deliberately theatrical, but most local amateur groups could do it a lot better than this. The script is intended - I suspect - to be endlessly discussed by devotees, but in the end is such a tangled mess that its worthy - if a trifle preachy - message is almost entirely obscured. One reviewer here awards 10 out of 10, but seriously, I can only assume it was written by somebody involved in the making of the film, or a very close friend/relation of somebody who was. I am also growing wary of reviews that resort to the use of 'Juxtapose' in order to sound more profound than they really are.

Two stars for the ambition, but I'm not sure multiple viewings would enhance the experience. Comparisons to Penda's Fen are amusingly misleading.

At a pinch, might be worth a single viewing, but only if you have a high tolerance for pretension.

Long, boring, okay maybe not so long, but it sure seemed it. But I found no horror elements in it. Not a good movie at all. I wasted what seemed like an entire evening watching this crap.

I hate leaving bad reviews on independent movies, but this film is just awful. Incredibly amateurish acting and as someone with a theatre background I see nothing theatrical about these actors they "act" like first year drama students. There really is no story or plot at all. Some vague references to things are never explained or revealed. A confusing mess of very simple lighting effects, characters with heavy masks on whose voices you can barely make out, as they are so muffled. It really is very pretentious and ultimately pointless.

I'm guessing the other reviewer was part of the team behind the film.

The trailer looked quite bad I love anything to do with rituals.

15 mins in and you soon realise these are students who somehow got funding to make it. Pretty bad acting and incredibly pretentious.

It's basically wants to be A Field in England meets Midsomer but is in fact more like Renta Ghost.

What does it mean to be a refugee in your own land?

Armageddon Gospels is a ritual in fable form, mythically invested in the reawakening of the old gods of Albion, and a meditation on what those gods might dream into being: An exploration of a ritual journey, a descent, and the possibility of a return.

But return to what?

How does a culture integrate what it learns in the crucible of crisis? What has to die? What might be born out of that death? What might we become and how might we live if we could only find the courage to ask the right questions at the right times?

Other reviewers have pointed out that this film is not what they expected, perhaps not what they wanted. That's fine by me. The unexpected is exactly what is needed in these times.