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3/10
What is the forbidden power?
jrwufgrad6 June 2020
Warning: Spoilers
If you are a fan of Neil Breen, then you will like this movie. His movies are not good, but they are entertaining. They are always worth a watch. They are also embedded with spiritual meaning. This one touches on the spiritual, but its reveal is very lacking. It really is a roller coaster ride of a movie.

George is our main character. He has a dead pan stare through out the entire movie. His expressions never seem to change, whether he is happy or angry. The delivery on his lines, seems to have the same emotion for every thing. He works for a tech company? I put a question mark, because it is mentioned he is working for a company that has developed security software that can determine who people are, by their texting rhythm. Everyone has their own way they text type, on their phones. Veronica, whom the forbidden power is in, question mark, sleeps with George and passes on this "power" on to him. He becomes smarter and stronger. He starts to use these abilities to further his career, and make investments that yield him a good sum of money.

Back to Veronica, she is a native american woman, who has this forbidden power, and passes it on to men she sleeps with. Metaphor? She reveals she got the power from an alien that touched her, while she was sitting in a crater. Turns out, she is the "mother" (for lack of a better way of saying it) of an Illuminati type group. Her sleeping with men, recruits them into this group. Then, those people go around and sleep with other people to recruit them. They are forced to do things that are morally wrong, so they can secretly take over the world.

With all of that being said, the beginning grabs you. Not just with all of the things George is realizing about his new abilities, but the story of Veronica and who she really is. George can not stop dreaming about her, and has to find out what she did to him. He finds out he has been "recruited" into this group and now he has a problem with what is going on. The whole thing has been done before. It is just the delivery that is different with this movie.

This was entertaining, to a point. It really does have the feelings of a Breen film. The message is deep, the acting is bad, and the special effects are horrible. They could not get green screen back ground right. It always looked out of place, where ever they put it. It is still worth a watch though. I have seen a lot of bad movies, and this is no where near the worst. Enjoy.
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2/10
Close to unwatchable.
Herbalicious_6902 December 2018
Poor acting, worst green screen composits ever, dire script, terrible direction, out of sync dialogue replacement in many places, no budget for music soundtrack, no atmosphere, no chemistry, but I gave this a rating of 2, reserving a rating of 1 for worse movies than this (and they do exist). If you have nothing else to watch and have a very high level of tolerance for excruciatingly cringe-worthy movies, this will do nicely. If you have anything else to watch, and I mean pretty much anything else, watch something else.
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10/10
Nice
Nice colouring and different concept. Direction is very good.
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7/10
Wild at Heart
onlythusfar26 February 2019
Unlike the other reviewer here I found this movie entertaining, I guess, I'm not too hard to please. By the way the one critic's review also gave it a 7/10. It was not a great film, but not a bad one either. The idea was quite good and rather unique, to my experience. I found the leads quite good and Nasanin Nuri, was certainly alluring. I won't give away the plot, which I didn't really catch on to until late in the movie. It's a well-worn idea, but here it was done very differently, than I've seen before. It's basically a light piece of entertainment and it certainly never bored me.
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10/10
A must see
anonymousleigh5 September 2022
First starting to watch it you're drawn in to the story , the cast and immediately thrown into a whirlwind of witty retorts , bad guys , beautiful women , and more . You can't help but talk to the characters while watching and encourage them or scold them . The chemistry between the main characters is undeniable .

I love the main characters , I think they really dove into their role , and you'll have to watch it to see just how great their banter is.

This movie is full of karate , guns, cars, parties, boats and more . I don't want to spoil it for you guys , but you will laugh through it.

I definitely will be watching this again and again.
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10/10
This is a great movie!
johnscavens8 May 2022
I loved this movie,the actors and the fine directing and production. It's one movie that once you see it,you'll never forget it. Nasanin Nuri is really effective,besides being extraordinarily beautiful. Lincoln Bevers had the requisite charisma and intellegence. Ben Leiataua was also excellent. I highly recommend that you see this groundbreaking work. You will not regret it.
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Good movie
Cheajk2 May 2019
Liked the movie. Didn't understand it all, but it was powerful. Good characters, want to see more. Thank you.

I came back to say that this is a film that comes to mind frequently. It has a lot to say, and something about it has stuck with me.

I definitely recommend watching it. A refreshing change from the typical, bland, high-budget Hollywood junk.
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