Rumors of Wars (2014)
A suspenseful, genre-bending film with two converging storylines. An aspiring college journalist records events in a diary about the turmoil of a society due to the insertion of a RFID chip mandated by the government. ? Years later in the rubble of a post apocalyptic society filled with decay and violence, the diary finds its way into to the hands of an officer in the New World Army who uncovers the truth about the past and discovers everything he stood for was a lie. But what will he do now?
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Such a frustrating disappointment
Excellent, Without a doubt!!
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
A lot of negative write-ups. Why? I don't know. It is beyond me to understand how a post-breakdown movie could not have some kind of Biblical reference. The "haters gonna hate" to the naysayers. The movie was good. Nothing new in its story line, but it was well done. Actors were fine. I was particularly taken by the treatment of the police/military. Seemed a little over the top, but I can see how life in such a future could possibly be as portrayed. Parts of the movie reminded me of Aleppo or Beirut (long ago). Certainly not as dark as 'Children of Men.' As with many other future-doom movies, government oppression rules the day.
Saw this on NetFlix and the description was a little interesting. After the first few minutes it seemed like there was a bit of a heavy hand trying pretty darn hard to tell me how I should feel. I kept thinking, "you don't suppose this is some POS 700 club BS masquerading as a movie do you?". Yet I continued to watch. The RFID chips raised suspicions further, then the soldier who defected to "god" and was shot over it. Just miserable. I don't care if these people feel the need to make hackneyed movies to try to trick their flocks into believing their dogma. Perhaps it is for the teens to make them think they get to see real movies, but Special movies, movies with a message. That is all fine and dandy, just don't try to trick others into watching this schlock. To the makers of this movie, I found myself agreeing with the "bad guys" before I shut it off in disgust. A movie like this really needs to be labeled clearly with a warning sticker that this is intended for the ignorant. If you want to show this to a group, it would make a great double feature with 'Birth of a Nation'. It wasn't even one of those bad movies that is so bad it is good or funny, it was just patently bad with no redeeming qualities. Like someone wandered into a couple of post apocalyptic movies and decided they could write a story and if they tilted it enough, they could possibly dupe a church to pay for it. Ed Wood did it better. Avoid this movie like it was one of the seven plagues of Egypt.
I will start with that I am not religious and too much preaching of any kind will turn me off on a movie. This movie has some Christian elements so if you are a fanatical Atheist who demonstrates the worst qualities of any fanatical thiest this is not the movie for you. If you expect a slick production and great acting this is not the movie for you. However if you like to contemplate the world and think about what ifs, this is a good movie. It asks many questions and good questions at that. Makes one think about how easy it is to fall into traps of fanaticism so readily displayed by previous reviewers. One does not need to be or identify with Christianity to identify with the ideas and questions asked. I'd love to see a higher budget less theist remake of this movie. The plot holds so much potential and warning for the world.
I read the previous negative reviews and almost didn't watch because of them, but the problem is those reviews seem to be proffered by people hostile to religion; hostile to Christianity in general. The movie is as good as most Hollywood movies. I mean, look at movies like Avatar; that movie was clearly anti-capitalism, anti-military, and even anti-Western society. So what if Rumors of Wars has an agenda. There really IS some truth to potential conspiracies. Look up Operation Northwood an admitted CIA project that planned to blame terrorist attacks on Cuba so as to launch an invasion. The acting in this movie is as good as most cheesy Hollywood junk, like Dumb and Dumber, Joe Dirt and some of the junk people think is great. Give it a chance.