Six: The Mark Unleashed (2004)

Strong and Moving!

Just perfect...

Excellent but underrated film

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

I find it hard to believe that they were able to make this as good as it was, given the low budget, and yes, in certain scenes it is glaringly obvious!Even so, as a born-again Christian, I found this particularly inspiring. The movie paces itself properly, doesn't get overly preachy, and sticks to the meat and potatoes.A problem I had with the movie: Christian scholars disagree over what the mark of the beast will actually be. Some say that a microchip is too simple and too obvious. Another problem is that by the time all this happens, there will be almost no food, no hope, all the buildings will be destroyed, and so on. Then, those who get suckered by the Beast will take the Mark for survival, not knowing any better. It will look like a Mad Max world at this point.Good to see big-name actors doing their part. Have to give this a recommendation.

I saw Six The Mark Unleashed tonight. It wasn't too bad. It was too preachy and it had some places where it didn't follow logically but hey, for an ultra-low budget movie I've seen a LOT worse. It's definitely WAY above Asylum grade.I am a Christian and I very much support independent Christian cinema. I am also a Sci Fi nut. I enjoyed an attempt to merge the two.Did it succeed? Not exactly, but then it didn't really fail either. I think a higher budget would really have helped. There really weren't any special effects. Just a bit of cool CGI stuff would have helped with the suspension of disbelief. They also were too heavy handed with the scriptures and it was disappointing that they didn't have any good people except Born Again Protestants. They didn't have any Catholics, Jews, Muslims, etc.

There is one problem with Christian movies: They are NOT labeled as Christian movies ("CH" rating or something like that). I have bought this movie discounted, but I still feel like I was robbed. I have expected "immense SF thriller" from "near future, about the mind control and the heroes who are the only hope to remove the dictatorship". What I got is almost two hours cheesy Christian propaganda, way too long, boring, cheesy, single dimensional, no effects, tragic dialogs. If I would be interested in such material, I can get plenty of this for free. There is NO action, NO SF (even Space Truckers are more SF than this!) The view of "God's" or "free" people to "dictatorship" is not even naive, it is complete off track. The "1984" seems absolutely great and thrilling in comparison with this piece of crap. "1984" is depressive, realistic, chilling view into communistic-like future with no chance for individualism and no chance to victory. Here you have totally unrealistic view to dictatorship - enemies are allowed to talk and encourage those who should be terrified by punishment, prison cell walls full of Bible texts, prisoners are dressed clean and allowed to pray etc. etc. The dictatorships DO NOT work that way. If you want to see how real dictatorships work in their "correctional facilities", watch Gray Zone, Killing Fields or Katyn. This is just very neat, very boring, generic Christian brainwash with very standard message: Ye shall be evangelized to the exquisite death by love of Christ and the boredom! So: I want $3 back and 2 hours my life too!

having seen this on Trinity B'cast Network, i was prepared for a semi-Biblical treatment, something on the order of Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, à la Michael (the Martian) Valentine or perhaps RAH's epic 666. (Mr Rbt Anson Heinlein was a semi-religious Jew from Santa Cruz, CA, who penned some of the greatest SciFi ever; high praise from me, since he wrote the first SF i age 8 ever read, 1949's Red Planet & even better, 1955's Tunnel in the Sky - Though stimulated by the trigger of the USSR's ICBM launch into space of "life" - a sled dog named Laika aboard Sputnik2 then, BOTH are still AOK ! :-). Great art & Literature, like this film, are timeless !Although i must confess the title of 666 has discouraged its reading, SIX as a title did not. Six is considered the number of man symbolically à la Ben Casey/astronomy/pseudoscience, since he is created compositely on the sixth day, a trinary being being created/possessed of a triune spirit B4 Paradise -- lostless action than Term II's End of Days, better plot than The Prophecy, more ironic than Sheen in The Believers, it is a substantial, worthy treatment of a subject we all need to know something about. btw Rocky I is very Prez Campaign '08-istic, but SIX is trans - political. It is a bit preachy but since when is Hollywood not? All the Baldwins can act, but Stephen B makes a statement here & in his own right. Sober but sophisticatedly slick, SIX reminds me 2 set & keep 1's eyes on the ball/the Prize.Though there are always nits to pick, my only reservation re SIX is,*** WhoInOle is the Socratic character (i believe he goes by the handle of "the prophet" -- saw it some time ago), that sort of drifts in & out nebulously throughout the film, supposed to be? (note: some recent news made me wonder enough 2 revisit the video *** but of course being Indie my best buy's not Best Buy -- Guaranteed! 2 try 2 special order it. Best big box on the SF e-Bay!)Speculation abounds about such fare but Christopher Walken's Gabriel @ least totes a Selmer trumpet around in the fabuloso fiction, The Prophecy. The only gloss i know of resembling SIX's Wanderer & the Hitchhiker's profered rest/lullaby is "the wandering Jew" who figures as a different character type depending on context, e.g. the Ferengi in STNG or the twisted craven Golem of LOTR. In SIX, the man is just sort of spooky. Is he a friend of the enduring Prophet of old (EPOO, not la époux), or some angelic type like the anti - Gabriel of Walken's searcher-announcer. If it's the former and you know it, hip us all & please don't blow it!Wouldn't you rather hear "LGRTRrrumblllle !" from famed presenter Michael Buffer, than some old dude with a sickle?