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<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="592" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">    <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="205" align="right"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <p align="right"><img border="0" src="../stills/exile-poster.jpg" width="200" height="283"></td> </tr> </table> <p>It's been years, probably decades, that the Angel (voiced by Dennice Cisneros) fell to earth, and since it has been worshipped in the little desert community of Sunderland, where worshipping the Angel and following its wishes has replaced the old faith ... and not surprisingly so, because the Angel is a real and tangible thing, a tentacled beast with powers to invade its worshippers' minds quite physically - which ultimately kills the Angel's followers, but according to the Angel's new religion they just pass on to a higher plane of existence. However, the Angel cannot possess just anybody, so it's tested in a ritual who becomes blessed (possessed) and who's a fallen and will be expelled from the community.<p>David (Dylan O'Brien) is a youth whose life lacks direction and who suffers under the possessed state his mother (Sianna Marie Greene) is in - but when he's accidently shot dead and the Angel revives him, he truly starts to believe in the teachings of the Angel and wants to study to become blessed ... but he also falls in love with Cassie (Katie Reed), the daughter of his teacher (James Petke), who loves him back, but who starts to doubt the Angel when she finds her (possessed) dying a horrible death.<p>During the ritual that might turn David into a blessed, David panics and some of his fingers are cut off, and if he wasn't saved and nursed back to health by Cassie, he might have died. But David soon learns that the Angel is to condemn Cassie to death, but when he tries to interfere, he's expelled to the wastelands. Cassie, seeing there's nothing that would hold her in Sunderland anymore, comes after David, and the two and crazed wastelander Krab (Matt Reed) make up a plan to leave the (fenced in) area for good, a plan which would include killing the Angel - but without heavy weapons, and easily outnumbered, that sounds like a suicide commando ...<p> <p><b>Exile</b> is quite a remarkable low budget genre piece, as it (without becoming brain-heavy or confusing) follows no formula at all but manages to, in a mere 84 minutes, create a world all of its own, with its very own (oftentimes rather absurd) rules and customs, and yet tell a well-structured and quite tense if at times almost delirious story all the same. This is achieved via a directorial effort concentrating on story rather than spectacle, great derelict locations that work well to support the story, several outbursts of violence that never seem gratuitous, and a very decent cast.<p>Pretty good, actually.<p>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2015"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>