Six: The Mark Unleashed (2004)

User Rating:

2.1/10   

Director:

Kevin Downes

Writers:

Kevin Downes (writer)
Chipper Lowell (writer)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Thriller

Plot Keywords:

Rapture Aftermath | Brainwashed | Christian Film | Implant | Antichrist

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Stephen Baldwin	...	Luke
David A.R. White	...	Brody Sutton (as David White)
Kevin Downes	...	Jerry Willis
Jeffrey Dean Morgan	...	Tom Newman
Eric Roberts	...	Dallas
Amy Moon	...	Jeseca
Troy Winbush	...	Lewis
Coleman Luck	...	Charles
Sung Hi Lee	...	Beautiful Woman
Declan Joyce	...	Joe
Marc Elmer	...	CPF Guard
John Gilbert	...	Commander
Brad Heller	...	Preston Scott
Tiny Ron	...	Eddie
Elena Lyons	...	Rahab

Runtime:

104 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Germany:18 | Iceland:12 | Finland:K-15

Filming Locations:

Visalia, California, USA

Company:

Majestic Productions

Quotes:

[first lines]
Brody Sutton: I still remember. Saturday morning cartoons, must-see-tv, news, fair and balanced. I also remember the first two Gulf wars, the second great depression, school shootings, and the music. It's the music I miss the most. There was freedom then. Freedom to do terrible things, but freedom all the same.
Beautiful Woman: You will find that such primitive emotions and ideas as jealously, rage, sexual possessiveness, and monogamy have been eliminated. Your new implant has made you part of a collective whole known as the Community. In the Community you are truly free to move among partners, male or female, as you choose. Your pleasure will be your guide.
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Movie Connections:

Featured in The Making of 'Six' (2004) (V)

Tedious, inept propaganda

This movie is the secret love-child of a Jack T. Chick tract and one of those "heartwarming" Christian propaganda anecdotes that have been circulating on the internet since the nineties. You know, the ones in which a mean, cynical atheist makes fun of a poor, oppressed Christian using a pompous, verbose argument which sounds impressive because it contains big words, but doesn't actually make any sense, and gets his come-uppance when his "argument" is "refuted" by some emotive sound-bytes from the Christian.

There is in fact a scene exactly like this somewhere in the first half of the movie, which is all that I could endure before flipping to the end of the DVD to see if anything exciting happened. Nothing did.

As science-fiction, the movie is ludicrous and unbelievable. It sets up a completely implausible and illogical view of the future. Setting aside the gimmick of the "implant" (which has a powerful, magical effect on your *brain* in spite of being implanted in your *hand*), why is someone in a maximum security prison run by a society which apparently practices rigid censorship allowed to have a bible, supposedly a heretical work? Why are the prisoners allowed to decorate their cells with beautifully and neatly executed graffiti of biblical quotations? Where do they get their art supplies? How did the evil implanted stormtroopers manage to massacre huge numbers of people in armed attacks if they appear to value personal self-preservation above everything else, including *defending the very survival of their society*?

The evil society is simply not believable, because it is a caricature of everything that modern fundamentalist Christians disapprove of blended with symbolism from the Book of Revelations. Are we supposed to be disturbed by the drones because they are sexually promiscuous? With *gasp* partners of both sexes? Oh, noes! The horror! I bet they've also massacred half the planet!

If you are the sort of person who reads those chain letters and thinks "Oh wow, that is such a well-reasoned argument! Let me forward this to everyone in my address book!" then you will probably adore this movie. If you are the kind of person who thinks "Who sent me this crap *again*?", then I suggest you stay away.