AmeriGeddon (2016)
3/10
Invasion U.S.A this is not!
3 June 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Armageddon America is a political sci-fi?! conspiracy thriller directed by son of Chuck Norris and cameos Alex Jones as a senator and Obama as an elite globalist bent on world domination. But seriously, this film is dripping in kool aid.

I don't even know where to begin. The plot is a U.N backed globalist terror organisation plan to install a new world order by taking over the united states through martial law through disabling the power grid, the national power grid, creating chaos throughout the country. And it is, just, adorable. I just know it that the cameoing Jones has said this exact paragraph verbatim somewhere.

For a message film, there is a lot of mumblecore in this. Either that or the sound design is terrible. But, from what i could understand, the drama is boilerplate throughout. Foreign heels and all American faces. It could not be more uninspired a take on this kind of story. Armageddon America likes to talk a big, long game, but that is pretty much all it has in terms of entertainment value, this insane Infowars-mercial.

There is not much running time or budget available for pure action so conservative placating takes centre stage in the attempt of masking frugality with sentimentality. This wouldn't matter to me so much if there was a good balance between story and action, but there isn't. Apart from the house siege climax at the end, the majority of this film is basically padding that is spiced up only by the propaganda.

There are too many scenes of people talking in Youtube comments to make the explosive finale or the bats plot worth it. Armageddon America is a dreadfully paced college of antiquated conspiracy theories and surface level MAGA sentiment. For an action film with a message so contained of paranoia, the tension is unfathomably low, no doubt suppressed by a terrible music score and the lifetime standard dramatics. It is a below mediocre action film made watchable only by it what it has to say to us.
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