2025 - The World enslaved by a Virus (2021) User Reviews

This is an excellent movie.....

[idonotexist · 1/10 · 17 January 2022]

To be used as an example of how not to make a movie!

What could be said about this production. Well, everything is bad about it.. the plot is cheesy, the script it cringe, acting is absolutely bewildering and the list goes on.

But i will say this one thing about it. In as many horrible movies that i have watched over the years (for science you see), this one is the only one to actually show you the production set/camera/support vehicles as they film the scenes. They could not even managed to pick their angles/b roll that hides that.

Anyway, aspiring film makers, watch this and do everything opposite and you will have success.

Just about as bad as you'd expect

[Xavier_Stone · 1/10 · 8 August 2021]

Started watching and soon got into FFW mode. Skip ahead a bit, cringe, FFW. Repeat until I'm about 1/2 way through the movie. Couldn't stand it anymore and bailed. If there was anything good I'd say it, but there isn't.

Christian persecution movie made by people who never had to face persecution in their lives

[hemeke-83571 · 1/10 · 27 December 2021]

You'd think a movie about a totalitarian government repressing religion would feature references to reviled places like China, Soviet Russia or the DDR. You'd be wrong. Instead, the protagonists are "oppressed" by the most benign, milquetoast, unthreatening government I've ever seen in media or real life. English is the world language, most likely because this movie was made for American Christians and learning a "scary" language like Russian or Chinese would be too much work. Christianity is apparently illegal, yet information is freely available on Wikipedia. All the Christians in this movie live their life in the open, in relative wealth, peace and comfort, and never even bother to hide their face, turn off phones and other possible tracking devices or use any kind of secrecy and/or common sense.

Being a Christian (no word about other religions, but I digress) is apparently classified as high treason and punishable by death, but there's no censorship, no visible repression, no dedicated teams to seek out and neutralize this so-called threat. The worst thing the protagonist' sister mentions about the new world order is that she now feels mildly uncomfortable seeing the police. If that's genuinely the worst thing the directors can come up with, while a fear of police brutality is a daily reality for millions of real-life Germans, their countrymen, then they must be the most sheltered, privileged people on this planet.

But that's the point: this movie is persecution porn by people who never had to face a smidge of actual persecution in their life. The directors have no experience organizing, or resisting police repression, or dealing with a spying and sabotaging government. It's a bunch of rich Christian influencers role-playing being oppressed, and failing spectacularly. That, aside from the bad acting, lacklustre worldbuilding, horrible pacing, etc, is what makes this movie a pain to watch.

Words mean things.

[micholeon-18825 · 1/10 · 17 January 2022]

And this movie seems to have no idea what the wors "communism" means. It also seems to have no grasp on logic or reality. It's almost impressive how bad this is.

Almost guaranteed to be the worst film of the year

[Jeremy_Urquhart · 1/10 · 23 July 2021]

This is probably the worst movie I've seen all year, yet I've watched it twice now in just this month. It's a magical kind of bad- the rare movie that might actually be so bad it's good, thanks to its implausible premise (where Christianity is outlawed worldwide by 2025!), blatant preachiness, terrible acting, hilarious dialogue, insane music choices, incoherent editing, awkward romance, and incredibly lame attempts to be exciting.

It's the kind of movie where the protagonist flubs one of his lines during his big, dramatic speech at the film's halfway point, a hacker can apparently do anything but is also just shown using Wikipedia, Google Image search, and Word documents, and a cover of Amazing Grace is rapped over (terribly, at that).

To give anything more away would be spoiling it. I mean, just look at the title: even that's awkward. There are some boring, very long scenes of preachy dialogue here and there that are tough to sit through, but the laughably bad stuff makes up for it.

This has the potential to become an infamously popular so bad it's good movie, and will just age worse and worse as the years pass.

If it's satire, I apologise, and will instead declare it genius and change my rating to a 10/10. But I'm leaning towards it being serious, and as such, I can't help but feel it's one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

Very bad even by Christian cinema standards

[ejonconrad · 1/10 · 18 May 2021]

Wow, this is a hot mess! Entertaining only for how horrible it is.

The setup is your typical paranoid Christian persecution fantasy: Covid has been used as excuse to institute world government with "communism everywhere" and to outlaw Christianity - you know, all of Dr. Fauci's recommendations.

It takes place just four years in the future, but somehow everyone has forgotten "the way things used to be" until the protagonist explains it. No details of the New World Order are ever given, and everything takes place on a very small scale. Really, it just seems like one overzealous local police chief.

The "heroes" are a group of people who have decided to spread the word of Christianity again. They start with the bold act of spray painting fishes on things, once on piles of leaves. Eventually, they are aided by a woman who works in the police department, who is "what you would call a hacker" and she helps them identify "secret Christians" and invite them to rallies.

The story takes place in Germany, and most of the actors are German, reading horrible dialog in English with very strong accents. Some of the actors are American, reading horrible dialog in English with American accents. In one scene, two women start in English, and then inexplicably switch to German with subtitles, presumably because one of them didn't speak English well enough to get through it.

It's not clear how much of the dialog is written and how much is improvised, and the only director's note seems to be, "Speak more slowly and stretch it out. We've got to pad 90 minutes!".

The sets and props would embarrass the most humble community theater. The police station appears to be a middle school auditorium, with some furniture in the corner. The main characters all live together in an an apartment, which for some reason has black plastic draped on the wall, a tiny Christmas tree, and a random string of twinkle bulbs. Late in the movie, someone apparently donated a fog machine, so they fill the police station with fog, just because they can.

The movie remains weirdly agnostic about the virus, masks, social distancing, etc. Is it a hoax or is it real? I would assume the people making it are anti-mask, but the good guys always wear masks outdoors and socially distance, even when holding their super secret illegal meetings. On the other hand, they never wear masks indoors, when they're huddled together around the little Christmas tree. The bad guys randomly wear masks or don't, presumably based on the individual choices of the actors.

This really doesn't even rise to the "so bad it's good" level, mostly because it's just not that interesting and all the actors are so low energy. Without the goofy exploding birds of Birdemic or ... everything about Tommy Wiseau, it just sort of falls flat.

So only watch it if you're truly committed to seeing every bad movie.

Astonishingly detached from reality

[bulgerpaul · 1/10 · 6 December 2021]

"It's 2025. The world as we have known in 2020 does not exist anymore. The virus has changed the world. Communism is all over the place. A global state developed. Meetings are illegal, traveling is illegal, and Christianity is illegal." I HAD NO IDEA I WAS ABOUT TO PUT ON A CHRISTIAN DYSTOPIAN MOVIE.

Oh boy, the minute that last line dropped I knew I had hit the jackpot. For those who follow my reviews I've been watching a lot of really bad Christian media lately, but this is pure happy circumstance.

I'm sick right now, so while I'm bedridden I'm taking the opportunity to search for brainless, hopelessly stupid movies that won't challenge me in any meaningful way, and what could be more promising than a movie with a title like 2025: The World Enslaved by a virus?

This movie opens with a hilariously incompetently edited and shot car chase sequence that leads into a monologue during an interrogation sequence meant as a stand-in for the late movie inspirational "look what they've taken from us" speech, something that occurs within the first five minutes. I mean seriously, have you people never heard of an obscure little concept known as buildup? Speeches like this with the swelling stringed instruments to underpin what you're supposed to be feeling are only effective when we've actually witnessed two acts worth of the main characters struggling, first. But what really gets me about this speech is how it simultaneously tries to double as the opening expository "here's what the world looked like before and what happened to change things" moment, in which the main character explains these things to a middle aged agent of the state who is very obviously older than he is. Like, what? This movie takes place in 2025, and it came out in 2021. It has only been four years. You really need to explain to this dude twice your age what the world was like less than five years ago?

Sadly though, the rest of this movie doesn't live up to the promise given by that banger of an opening. It's quite surprising how much of this movie is bogged down with inconsequential filler. There's an entire 97 second sequence dedicated to one of the characters somberly preparing their breakfast cereal, an event that is painstakingly documented as she slowly, sadly gets the cereal out, weakly pours it in the bowl, gets the milk out, and sadly pours it in the bowl on top of her cereal, then picks up her spoon, and slowly and sadly stirs it around a few times, and then she sadly takes her first few bites while reading a note that's just barely illegible to the viewer due to how it's positioned on the screen, but it lingers on this shot for so long I couldn't help but get the sense I was supposed to be reading it along with her.

I mean seriously, as incompetently written and framed as Donald James Parker's entire filmography is, at the very least the man is efficient with his screen time. His movies don't contain a single wasted moment. For all of their inconsequential non plot related diatribes laden throughout, every single scene is packed to the brim with him communicating something to the viewer, whether it be his politics, what he thinks of himself, how he views women and racial/sexual minorities and Jews and Muslims, his general theology, and whatever else he happened to have thoughts on in any random minute he spend writing. Not a single moment passed in which I didn't feel like I was learning something about how Donald James Parker thinks.

But after 90 minutes of this, what do I now know about how the creators see the world? Mask mandates are literally the Holocaust? This majority Christian planet is hostile to Christians? Communism is bad? After that opening ten minutes I found myself expecting something meatier and more revealing about the creators than that. But instead all I got is how these creators have a massive throbbing boner for American imperialism in an unbelievable mid movie speech:

"Remember, we used to fight for other countries. We've freed countries from dictators, gave the power back to the people. We organized food and medication. Why did we do that? Because the dignity of man is holy.... They may take our lives, but they will never take our freedom." Now this mid-movie speech about 40 minutes in is just astonishing. This is honestly how these people view American imperialism. Also, there's a hysterical, sick irony in how people with an apparent admiration for the idea of organizing free food and medication for impoverished Latin American people in the form of foreign aid would think communism is evil. Lol what do you people think communism is? And oh dear lord how dare your invoke the most famous moment from Braveheart for this thuddingly brain dead speech. Honestly this speech alone would have made the entire movie worth it had I not had to sort through so much fat to get to it.

Like seriously, with as much contempt as I found myself developing for Donald James Parker personally throughout his sordid filmography, little did I know he'd end up becoming the gold standard for incompetent fundagelical-with-an-insufferable-persecution-complex media production.

Boring propaganda.

[Maz-hell · 1/10 · 5 August 2021]

In a totalitarian (where the police seems to barely exist) communist (With no one covering any work position anywhere) dystopia (with no people in horrible conditions) where traveling is illegal (Which would result in everyone dying) and everyone is permanently being vigilated on (and no police, army or even official know what is going on at any time, where only one policeman is present at any time) Where reunions are prohibited (and that is why there are reunions constantly in public places (Even though they are constantly being watched)) and where christianity has been banned (no mention of any other religion. Just christianity) an economist (that can't act worried even if his life depended on it), a nurse (that doesn't know how medicine work), a marine (that doesn't know how the army works (Also he is a marine... in Germany. In a totalitarian regime were traveling is forbidden)) and a hacker (That uses Google and Word as her only tools) will fight against it all! By painting fishes in the floor! That'll teach them!

The acting is subpar, even by Christian films standards. The music is generic and comes and goes at random intervals. The dialog is awful and the accents of the actors and their inability to express any emotions make Tommy Wiseau look like Al Pacino. I am not sure there was a screenplay.

Boring to tears. Empty headed to sinningful levels. Do not watch. Get corona: Might be better for your health.

Just dreadful.

[charlottesetsu · 1/10 · 5 September 2021]

The acting is dull, one-note and stilted, the cinematography is amateurish, the script is awful, the editing appalling, the sound design distracting, and generally this movie sucks.

The plot is your standard Christian Fundamentalist martyrdom narrative, where the filmmakers are so deep into their culty mindset that they don't realise they've cast their protagonist in the role of Jesus Christ. Genuinely blasphemous stuff.

Genuinely, this is borderline unwatchable. Almost every scene drags its way through talentless actors lifelessly mumbling their way through appalling dialogue, apart from the numerous sweeping background shots that are clearly in the film because of how pleased the makers were that they got a nice camera drone.

The people involved have clearly seen a few movies, but have utterly failed to understand what makes a movie good. There's an attempt at a subplot with a character that's almost totally unrelated to the others, and which only seems to exist to patch over one of this movie's (many) gaping plot-holes.

It's barely worth a hate-watch. Guaranteed to be one of the longest one and a half hours of your life.

Cult favorite

[ndzqbcjfwz · 1/10 · 16 January 2022]

This movie answers the question: what if a bunch of nobodies and incredibly giant babies got together and made a movie which comically tries to convince us that Christians are persecuted?

Let's try this again

[SheWorksHardForTheMoney · 10 February 2022]

The first time I wrote a negative review for this abysmal movie it was declined for being too sarcastic. I will not sweeten my opinion just to appease those in charge. This movie is absolutely embarrassing. The acting is atrocious, the plot/script is shameful, and feels like a high school project gone wrong. If you want to waste your time or have a good laugh then this movie just may be for you.

This is the most important movie you will ever watch

[zurich_leader · 10/10 · 10 April 2021]

Because honestly the whole thing is terrible and borderline worrying but anyone with the ability two string two thoughts together is going to quickly realise what the goal of this film is.

It's exhibit A in just how easy it is for anyone with a bit of cash and a few toys to get this sort of thing out into the public and there will be people who 100% watch this thinking "hey they have a point"

Watch it with your kids and explain to them why this isn't okay.

That being said, so bad it's hilarious. 10/10 would spray fish again

Also when leaving reviews for your own movie try a little harder to hide your identity, Christ at least try a little.

Good

[cobydg-65092 · 7/10 · 15 January 2021]

The message is true and super good! Really would suggest watching it!! Super Super true and super good!!!

A fantastic comedy

[clicktoreply · 1/10 · 14 September 2021]

I really enjoyed watching this rubbish. Sufficient amount of cringe, terrible acting, ridiculous plot. I had a great laugh.

High School Project (failed)

[cdnkelly-52977 · 1/10 · 6 August 2021]

My neighbors could have made a better movie. Great Big ZERO. Just people sitting around in frame going blah blah blah.

Properganda!

[wilsonswak · 1/10 · 9 December 2021]

Lol! I think this movie was mostly improve!

However the ending was great!! Lol.

(Only people who watched the movie will understand) I don't know why I have to have 150 characters to post this. Here goes..... Let me count the ways on how bad it was... 1 bad acting 2 bad script 3 bad wardrobe attire 4 bad driving 5 and sooo much more!

Why do films like this get made? Why does this make sense to the creators? I try to explain.

[TheVictoriousV · 1/10 · 7 June 2021]

See, this is more like it! This is the kind of PureFlix-level scare-mongering over COVID precautions I was hoping for with Safer at Home (which was little more than a generic found-footage horror flick/Unfriended knock-off, in spite of its "timely" quarantine setting).

In my review of that film, I wrote that we've entered the first true wave (See what I did there?) of Lockdown Movies. I wrote: "We've reached a point where higher-budget movies that were shot mid-pandemic are starting to come out, not just limited-crew productions like Malcolm & Marie or largely-made-at-home films like Raya and the Last Dragon, but also explicitly lockdown-themed projects".

This new one, however, is cheap enough that it could've been released alongside 5G Zombies. In a certain sense, 2025: The World Enslaved by a Virus is the ultimate COVID movie. For better or worse (mostly worse), it has absolutely everything.

The synopsis alone is utterly perfect, not only consisting of conspiracy theories directly related to COVID-19, but also the truths behind the truth (the real reason the virus was "invented" and 5G chips started getting vaccine-d into us), like a Communist world government that plans to outlaw Christianity and the U. S. constitution. It stands to reason that those two aren't the only creation myths and old pieces of paper that will get banned if such a government were to exist, but let's focus on the important victims here.

I mentioned PureFlix before, but even they wouldn't distribute garbage like this. They put at least some effort into the acting and production quality, even as the main focus is usually to make conservative Christians seem as victimized as possible (usually necessitating the odd distortion of real events, or just a spooky music score when those darn science-believers start babbling again). Here, it feels like I've stumbled upon an embarrassing MP4 file from my film-school backup folder. The most well-shot sequences seem to be stock footage.

We really don't see too much of the New World Order, but it seems to have a pretty solid grasp of the Earth populace, since very few characters seem to recall the planet that once was (four years ago). I'm sure we'll get to learn even more when these guys fund the sequel. That sounded sarcastic but I do legitimately think this film will do great, albeit in the way that Fateful Findings and Birdemic technically "did great". There is endless fun to be had when crap like this gets to spread (viruses, not so much). I just can't stay mad at something so hysterical.

Besides, on a purely psychoanalytical level, I do sort of understand why movies like this get made, and how (in the mind of the director) it makes sense to make them. Christianity remains the biggest religion of the world, and while this fact alone seems to run contrary to the narrative that Christians are oppressed, it's actually quite important to why the narrative exists.

For many of us, the target isn't strictly Christianity. The target is religion itself; the idea of believing things to be true without verification or even verifiability, yet imposing rules accordingly. If, then, religion is what's really "under attack", then Christianity, being the largest religion, is statistically bound to take the most hits. That's why it feels like you Bible fanboys are being singled out. If a meteorite hits Eurasia and most of what's destroyed belongs to Vladimir Putin, does that mean the meteor had an anti-Russia bias? Think about that one for a while before making a whiny dystopian sci-fi out of it.

QUICK EXTRA NOTE: I of course also realize that not all Christians are morons simply because the loudest ones say the dumbest sh-t. At the same time, I do think most humans are idiots, and as my brother once pointed out, it can therefore be wise to assume the worst about any given group. That said, I take each individual at his word - objectively - without any Pairov fallacies. And sometimes many individuals are dumb enough to think COVID is a hoax. What can ya do?

My daughter's 6th grade school play was better

[jayreddy99 · 1/10 · 31 December 2021]

My girlfriend and I decided to try this because a quick scan suggested a cool futuristic sci fi flick. Oh boy were we disappointed! We made it through 3 minutes max before shutting it down. The red flag was the opening captions including the premise that "Christianity is illegal." Uh huh, because no other religions ever existed, and don't need to be acknowledged? We made it through 30 seconds of dialogue between the opening-scene detained character being interviewed by a cop, and stopped it. The production values are worse than any home movie. The acting doesn't even count as acting. And the people who allowed this to be available on Amazon Prime should be fired.

Horrific

[nosternerstuffthanthis · 1/10 · 5 May 2021]

You'll find better acting in an elementary school production of Rumpelstiltskin, better plotting and writing in a lawn mowing advertisement, and better production values in the TikTok videos of bum fights.

It's bad.

Huh?!

[jonathanndeflep · 1/10 · 7 August 2021]

Speaking as a Christian, this may have been one of the worst movies ever created (contesting the likes of the Killer Sofa). Historically speaking, a crisis can and often brings about different degrees of oppression but this was poorly explained (and directed) in this film. And what up with the writing/acting?? Apparently, a major factor of a worldwide persecution is a random, disconnected, and awkward dialogue.

A very bad movie worth watching

[braininacat · 1/10 · 2 February 2022]

This is on the list of worst movies I have ever seen but that puts it in a very special place. For people who love to hate watch bad movies, put this next on your list. Its a perfect storm of bad on all ends.

Great meaning

[matthewdougan · 8/10 · 15 January 2021]

Loved the meaning of the movie. It was exciting to watch yet I definitely felt the realness to it. God is good!

Thought provoking and original!

[brod-y · 27 May 2021]

My wife and I had a great time watching this movie. Highly recommend!

Surprisingly entertaining.

[retracmj-1 · 7/10 · 19 November 2023]

The beginning of this movie was very amateurish and the acting was stilted. I hung on to see where it would go.

Most of the actors improved and I liked where it was going.

I like dystopic movies and this was definitely right in there.

I assume this was a first movie for this group. I can say the camera person(s) was very good. The lighting and angles was good. In the area where the military boss or police was it was often too "smoky" and I think that was overdone.

I decided I liked it, it kept me to the end. And, it was realistic. We've all seen this sort of thing happen in areas of the world. The ending was not what I expected but it was the way it should have gone.

I think it was worth a 7. I watched it. I wanted to see how it would go.

Roy was the best actor and character in the movie. I'll be curious where yhese movie makers go next.

A complete new Low Class of.. worst Movie ever!

[nachtlager-10229 · 1/10 · 2 August 2021]

This is a really new Class of Movie. Where the worst becomes even better then this thing!

What happens, if a kind of Friends group get enough Money in hands go get at least propper Smartphone " holder " for their Contract Phones.

AND since , thanks to digital recording , every Idiot can publish normally every Junk on internet. - Then here we have a good example , what can happen.

Acting skills of all are Below Basement! With the nightmare accent is true.

The sound... Partly complete clear Dubbed! 2 Person in front of each other sound like in complete different rooms!

Costumes.. ahm WHAT?? A Fan shop Harness, where a Printed out " Police " was simple added on with Ducktape, that it remains in place !??!

A Car with Police on it, but German Country Symbol ( EU Plaque ) on it. Where no Dust or fly was ever on.

Complete Movie looked like maded from some Abi Graduated Class. Like a fun Project.