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Reviewed by Wuchak 6 / 10

**_What happens to society when the bomb inevitably

**_What happens to society when the bomb inevitably drops?_** This is the pilot movie for an ensuing series based on the Dark August books. Since I’m not interested in the TV series, I’m reviewing this as a standalone film. It comes in the tradition of post-nuclear war movies like “Testament” and “The Sum of All Fears” mixed with the spirituality of, say, the “Left Behind” flicks, just not as overt on that front. It works as far as giving you a glimmer of what it will be like: Suddenly, people will be drawn to the wisdom of preppers rather than writing them off as conspiracy nutjobs. I liked the rising tension between the owner of the homestead (Neal McDonough) and the head of security (Bailey Chase), as well as a great standoff between the homesteaders and a dubious govt detachment. I also appreciated the moral conundrum: Do you just protect your own and shut everyone else out or do you try to help as many as you reasonably can without seriously diminishing your chances of survival? Obviously the latter, but where do you draw the line, especially when desperate lives are at stake? When the proverbial sheet hits the fan, each person is expected to offer something worthwhile to the community and, if they can’t, you of course wouldn’t need them or want them. Speaking of which, I appreciated how the ending focuses on the positive in a challenging situation amidst great tragedy. This sets it apart from more nihilistic post-apocalyptic flicks like “Carriers” and “The Road.” The fact that it’s a movie that sets up a series reveals its weakness for those not interested in seeing the ensuing episodes: Some characters and their relationships are established, but there’s no payoff and therefore these subplots feel incomplete. Fans of the series or books will naturally appraise “Homestead” higher than me. As for the criticisms that this is “Christian propaganda,” get real. The Ross family are ostensibly believers and so there’s like one prayer sequence involving the teen girl. Whoopee. In other words, the spirituality is underdone rather than overdone. Have you ever noticed that no one accuses ultra-glum flicks like the aforementioned “Carriers” and “The Road” of being “atheistic propaganda”? It runs 1h 38m before the overlong end credits roll, which happen to acknowledge every single donor. It was shot in Los Angeles and (mostly) Bountiful, Utah, which is located 15 miles north of Salt Lake City. GRADE: B-

Reviewed by Terryweaverjr 5 / 10

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Acting ~ 6 ⭐ The best performance by far came from Bailey Chase. You may know him from Longmire. The script did not give the actors much to work with, but this guy handled what he got well. The lead actor, Neal McDonough, who is supposed to help carry the film, was stiff and underwhelming. Everyone else was just, well, not that great. Bailey raised their average.Story ~ 4 ⭐ The most important part of any film, the story was clunky and quite frankly a mess. The writers broke the first rule of writing, which is to tell the truth. This is an 'action lite' movie, it's heavy-handed and preachy, and the structure is whacky. It's two episodes of a TV series trying to be a movie but missing the mark by far.Cinematography ~ 5 ⭐ Middle-of-the-road cinematography with bad lighting at times. Not much else to say here.To Boot At the end of the film, there is an ask to pay the movie forward - to buy someone else's ticket who otherwise might not have the money to see it. This has been done before by Angel Studios for Sound of Freedom. It worked beautifully then, but here's why it won't work this time.Unfortunately, Homestead is not a real film, and the studios that put it out know this. Angel Studios is using a carrot-and-stick tricky marketing to launch their TV series.They've given movie-goers two poorly written TV episodes bolted together, and if you pay someone else's way to see it, they offer to give you more episodes to watch at home for doing so.Summary Don't see it and tell your friends to take a hard pass and maybe we will get a truthful story instead of tricky marketing next time from the makers of Homestead.Overall Terry Review ~ 5 ⭐

Reviewed by Aylmer 5 / 10

Prepper paradise film promises the world but turns into Horizon 2.0

Remember that movie a few months ago from Kevin Costner called HORIZON? It started like the makings of a great movie, but then about 1/3 the way into the running time, they decided to just slow everything down and not move the plot along anymore, because it was a miniseries pilot rather than an actual movie. Well that exact same thing happens here, and it really bummed me out because I loved the opening of the film.Going back to THREADS in the early 80's and even the pilot episodes for such shows as "Walking Dead", "Survivors", and "Jericho", I've always felt hungry for a well-directed (and especially a well-written) realistic portrayal of society falling apart at the very opening of the apocalypse. The closer these shows and films get to full on realism, the more interesting they get, but it never seems to quite hit the threshold of believability. The closest of course would be THREADS, but that film is hampered a bit by its low budget and unrelenting bleakness, plus it's a "broad-brush" film that doesn't really focus on the personal journey of the characters with much depth. Most of these films follow characters who are essentially unprepared victims who run around like headless chickens, looting and killing each other. There's very little attention paid to the rebuilding of society unless you stick with the series.What's fascinating about this film is that it seems to follow the world's best prepper; a billionaire who owns a large property, stockpiles many months worth of food, and hires a large staff to run the place. It's a much more fascinating concept to me than following some loner wandering around because we get the makings of a small society trying its best to function and dealing with the various crises and things they didn't plan out. I have a feeling it'll be a pretty satisfactory miniseries (assuming that there are more episodes coming), but unlike a lot of my fellow Gen-Xers, I have little patience to sit down and binge-watch or maintain some loyalty to an ongoing series. I'd much rather watch films in the form of closed-narratives, which is something that this film does not offer (nor did HORIZON) in the slightest bit. There's nothing satisfying at all in the end but a lot of unanswered questions.The key scenes such as the incident with the hunters feels very poorly handled, and the attempt to make the killer character conflicted and then suddenly get over it rang completely false and hollow as well. The film has a lot of tough guys posing with guns but ultimately has practically no action, which is frustrating when you can spot many, many opportunities for it along the way. Ultimately, the film lacks in entertainment value unless you really are drawn toward prepper culture and want to see what sort of blind spots you may have in your own prepping strategy. There are those who are practical and those who are idealistic, and the film seems to favor the idealists without really showing the consequences of ignoring pragmatism in a doomsday situation in which it's absolutely critical. I guess that may be the downside of watching a post-apocalypse movie with an ever-so-slight religious bend to it, though this is worlds better from something more overt such as LEFT BEHIND.

Homestead

2024

Action / Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Homestead

2024

Action / Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller

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**_What happens to society when the bomb inevitably

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Prepper paradise film promises the world but turns into Horizon 2.0

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