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Beacon 77
UK 2009
produced by Janice de la Mare, George Georgiou (executive), Gary Phillips (executive), Mark Vennis (executive), Brad Watson (executive) for Revolt Films
directed by Brad Watson
starring Kelly Adams, Jonathan Rhodes, Lucy Evans, Calita Rainford, David Horton, Cathy Murphy, Wayne Lennox, George Georgiou, Kris Tyler, Simon Thomas, Philip Gawthorne, Kevin Lehane, Saqueeb Butt
story by Brad Watson, Darren Mills, screenplay by Brad Watson, Debbie Moon, music by Marc Teitler
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Actually, Sarah (Kelly Adams) only accompanied her best friend Zoe
(Lucy Evans) to Zoe's professor/boyfriend-to-be Malcolm's (Davit Horton)
apartment to provide some company Zoe insisted she needed, but then she
finds two nerdy weirdoes, Kendra (Calita Rainford) and wheelchair-bound
Declan (Jonathan Rhodes) in the flat who try to hack into the computer of
the Vatican to find a 3D scan of the original Torah, because they think it
cannot only be decoded to predict the future like the 2D Torah can, it can
actually lead the way to God. Somehow Sarah and Zoe get suckered into the
whole affair, which is in its final stages, almost against their will, but
the subject is just too fascinating. Thing is, while Kendra and Malcolm
only participate in the project to gain some knowledge, Declan has
ulterior motives: He wants to actually become the next God, a God of his
own realm. And he's pretty good at it, too, soon he has acquired ESP
powers, mind control, control over machinery and whatnot, and he's even
able to leave his wheelchair. Also, he has soon killed Malcolm and Kendra,
the only competition for his God-hood, and now he threatens Sarah and Zoe
- but Zoe has psychic powers of her own and manages to keep Declan in
check long enough for Sarah to kill her, even if that also kills Zoe in
the process. But by killing him, Sarah has only set Declan free, free to
destroy this world, and it's only a moment before the end of the world
that Sarah starts to comprehend everything, starts to comprehend the
incredible series of coincidences that have led to all this ... At
times a very fascinating film due to its cleverly mapped out (if still
rather silly) religious and philosophical grondworks, the whole thing
eventually falls flat on its face when all of the film's cleverness is
ditched for a standard horror film finale, and once the villain of the
piece is identified, it seems all of its complexity is doomed to cave in,
too. Well, at least the film is very nicely acted and the directorial
effort is suitably subtle and makes the most of its rather confined space
(mostly the apartment) - which all adds up to a mostly ok movie, but
definitely not a great one ...
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