See, this is more like it! This is the kind of PureFlix-level scare-mongering over COVID precautions I was hoping for with Safer at Home (which was little more than a generic found-footage horror flick/Unfriended knock-off, in spite of its "timely" quarantine setting).
In my review of that film, I wrote that we've entered the first true wave (See what I did there?) of Lockdown Movies. I wrote: "We've reached a point where higher-budget movies that were shot mid-pandemic are starting to come out, not just limited-crew productions like Malcolm & Marie or largely-made-at-home films like Raya and the Last Dragon, but also explicitly lockdown-themed projects".
This new one, however, is cheap enough that it could've been released alongside 5G Zombies. In a certain sense, 2025: The World Enslaved by a Virus is the ultimate COVID movie. For better or worse (mostly worse), it has absolutely everything.
The synopsis alone is utterly perfect, not only consisting of conspiracy theories directly related to COVID-19, but also the truths behind the truth (the real reason the virus was "invented" and 5G chips started getting vaccine-d into us), like a Communist world government that plans to outlaw Christianity and the U. S. constitution. It stands to reason that those two aren't the only creation myths and old pieces of paper that will get banned if such a government were to exist, but let's focus on the important victims here.
I mentioned PureFlix before, but even they wouldn't distribute garbage like this. They put at least some effort into the acting and production quality, even as the main focus is usually to make conservative Christians seem as victimized as possible (usually necessitating the odd distortion of real events, or just a spooky music score when those darn science-believers start babbling again). Here, it feels like I've stumbled upon an embarrassing MP4 file from my film-school backup folder. The most well-shot sequences seem to be stock footage.
We really don't see too much of the New World Order, but it seems to have a pretty solid grasp of the Earth populace, since very few characters seem to recall the planet that once was (four years ago). I'm sure we'll get to learn even more when these guys fund the sequel. That sounded sarcastic but I do legitimately think this film will do great, albeit in the way that Fateful Findings and Birdemic technically "did great". There is endless fun to be had when crap like this gets to spread (viruses, not so much). I just can't stay mad at something so hysterical.
Besides, on a purely psychoanalytical level, I do sort of understand why movies like this get made, and how (in the mind of the director) it makes sense to make them. Christianity remains the biggest religion of the world, and while this fact alone seems to run contrary to the narrative that Christians are oppressed, it's actually quite important to why the narrative exists.
For many of us, the target isn't strictly Christianity. The target is religion itself; the idea of believing things to be true without verification or even verifiability, yet imposing rules accordingly. If, then, religion is what's really "under attack", then Christianity, being the largest religion, is statistically bound to take the most hits. That's why it feels like you Bible fanboys are being singled out. If a meteorite hits Eurasia and most of what's destroyed belongs to Vladimir Putin, does that mean the meteor had an anti-Russia bias? Think about that one for a while before making a whiny dystopian sci-fi out of it.
QUICK EXTRA NOTE: I of course also realize that not all Christians are morons simply because the loudest ones say the dumbest sh-t. At the same time, I do think most humans are idiots, and as my brother once pointed out, it can therefore be wise to assume the worst about any given group. That said, I take each individual at his word - objectively - without any Pairov fallacies. And sometimes many individuals are dumb enough to think COVID is a hoax. What can ya do?
In my review of that film, I wrote that we've entered the first true wave (See what I did there?) of Lockdown Movies. I wrote: "We've reached a point where higher-budget movies that were shot mid-pandemic are starting to come out, not just limited-crew productions like Malcolm & Marie or largely-made-at-home films like Raya and the Last Dragon, but also explicitly lockdown-themed projects".
This new one, however, is cheap enough that it could've been released alongside 5G Zombies. In a certain sense, 2025: The World Enslaved by a Virus is the ultimate COVID movie. For better or worse (mostly worse), it has absolutely everything.
The synopsis alone is utterly perfect, not only consisting of conspiracy theories directly related to COVID-19, but also the truths behind the truth (the real reason the virus was "invented" and 5G chips started getting vaccine-d into us), like a Communist world government that plans to outlaw Christianity and the U. S. constitution. It stands to reason that those two aren't the only creation myths and old pieces of paper that will get banned if such a government were to exist, but let's focus on the important victims here.
I mentioned PureFlix before, but even they wouldn't distribute garbage like this. They put at least some effort into the acting and production quality, even as the main focus is usually to make conservative Christians seem as victimized as possible (usually necessitating the odd distortion of real events, or just a spooky music score when those darn science-believers start babbling again). Here, it feels like I've stumbled upon an embarrassing MP4 file from my film-school backup folder. The most well-shot sequences seem to be stock footage.
We really don't see too much of the New World Order, but it seems to have a pretty solid grasp of the Earth populace, since very few characters seem to recall the planet that once was (four years ago). I'm sure we'll get to learn even more when these guys fund the sequel. That sounded sarcastic but I do legitimately think this film will do great, albeit in the way that Fateful Findings and Birdemic technically "did great". There is endless fun to be had when crap like this gets to spread (viruses, not so much). I just can't stay mad at something so hysterical.
Besides, on a purely psychoanalytical level, I do sort of understand why movies like this get made, and how (in the mind of the director) it makes sense to make them. Christianity remains the biggest religion of the world, and while this fact alone seems to run contrary to the narrative that Christians are oppressed, it's actually quite important to why the narrative exists.
For many of us, the target isn't strictly Christianity. The target is religion itself; the idea of believing things to be true without verification or even verifiability, yet imposing rules accordingly. If, then, religion is what's really "under attack", then Christianity, being the largest religion, is statistically bound to take the most hits. That's why it feels like you Bible fanboys are being singled out. If a meteorite hits Eurasia and most of what's destroyed belongs to Vladimir Putin, does that mean the meteor had an anti-Russia bias? Think about that one for a while before making a whiny dystopian sci-fi out of it.
QUICK EXTRA NOTE: I of course also realize that not all Christians are morons simply because the loudest ones say the dumbest sh-t. At the same time, I do think most humans are idiots, and as my brother once pointed out, it can therefore be wise to assume the worst about any given group. That said, I take each individual at his word - objectively - without any Pairov fallacies. And sometimes many individuals are dumb enough to think COVID is a hoax. What can ya do?