Crazy stuff right here.
The QAnon-tinged thriller about child-trafficking is designed to appeal to the conscience of a conspiracy-addled boomer
Caviezel, best known for being tortured to death in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, has become a prominent figure on the conspiracist right, giving speeches and interviews in which he hints at an underground holy war between patriots and a sinister legion of evildoers who are harvesting the blood of children. It’s straight-up QAnon stuff, right down to his use of catchphrases like “The storm is upon us.” Here, he gets to act out some of that drama by playing a fictionalized version of Tim Ballard, head of the anti-sex trafficking nonprofit Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.), in a feature film that casts the operator as a Batman-style savior for kids sold into the sex trade.
I’m extremely excited for the qaa episode on it. It’ll be the first time I’ve seen a movie before they talk about it.
I was basically bribed to see it with my dad and it was mid, but the low points are so fucking low. Some of them are funny.
There is one shot near the end I think was actually kinda clever, but I’m not enough of a movie buff to know who did it first and it was stolen from.
Definitely worth stealing if you enjoy brainworms.
Side note: the LOUDEST movie audience I’d ever been a part of. The hogs were hooting, hollering, gasping, and cheering in all the places they would be expected to. I felt like Matt at CPAC.
Edit: I should probably add some of the low points are extremely creepy and the movie needs a boatload of CW. The subject matter, some blatant tropes, and creepy lingering shots on the faces of kids.