When I read about the film in the Redbox, it reveals information that is not revealed in the film until the last 5-10 minutes. I won't do that per se, but the film is so bad, spoilers won't matter.Full figured Dr. Kimmy Gabriel (Bridget McGrath) can not have a child, but keeps on trying. She is very pro-life and reluctantly accepts a position at a human clone project under Dr. Roger Gibson (Charles Hubbell). She steals a cloned embryo and implants it in herself. The film jumps to seven years later as the world is thrust into a post apocalyptic nightmare as Kimmy and her son David (Rocko Hale) live in a run down tenement living off government MRE handouts.The film has heavy religious messages as both lesion faced Kim and Roger are very religious and frequently read from the Bible and listen to radio preachers. This appears to be a "come to Jesus film" except the "good guys" do nothing heroic to save the day or themselves. Indeed, if anything they appear to be part of the problem which is to make a statement about the condition of human existence.This film is very low budget. The sets are meager. The acting is bad and dialouge has a religious corniness to it. It fails to get interesting until 10 minutes before the final credits and by then you pray for the end.Knowing the "secret" of the film by reading the by-line I couldn't help but think during the film..."Funny. He doesn't look Jewish."Parental Guide: No f-bombs, sex, or nudity. Bridget McGrath cleavage.

This was by any measure a bad film. I cannot defend the poor writing, the poor acting and horrible casting, they are indefensible. This was basically a family project financed, produced, directed, written and acted by a husband and wife team...and it shows. The other reviews are so unkind that they deserve mention. The lead actress is a plain woman who is as they say politely "full figured" and is the star because she is the Exectutive Producer and Produce, therefore she paid for the movies and ergo she is the star. To refer to her as fat and ugly is cruel and unkind. I do think that she could have been prepped better, but I would also note that some TV stars are less attractive and larger that she is, but are fawned over by the press. Also the religious sub theme of this film is attacked in almost every review, had the theme been the coming of Satan it would have been received more favorably. Let's just say this is a BAD Sci Fi film and leave it at that.

The film begins very soft and clean with a female hero who is willing to sacrifice anything to achieve her dream of being a mother while ironically being a fertility specialist. The first part of the film is quite typical, very smooth and simple with good looking people in good looking apartments with nice jobs, cars and all thing things you'd expect from a rom-com, but not funny. But then, once our hero makes a fatal mis-step, the world is thrown in to chaos.A crude graphic comes on screen and we're suddenly pushed "Seven years later," and we jump from sitcom to disaster film. The jump is huge and might throw some viewers off track, but after seeing the film for a second time (and the benefit of research), it is clear now what Juares and Schneider set out to do. The problem is that the film doesn't telegraph it with "Hey, this is a movie based on Revelations," and the sudden theological references require some thinking form the audience that wasn't asked of them in the first act. The break in the film makes it feel like two separate films and based on how deliberate the filmmakers were in setting it all up, is clearly intentional and with purpose. I found myself, the first time I viewed the film, having to quickly readjusted my expectations and get in to the world that was suddenly dropped on top of me.The picture then follows, quite carefully, the theological breakdown of the world as told in the Book of Revelations (or the "Apocalypse" for you Catholic folks). Sores start appearing on some characters, not all, which seem to represent the "mark of the Devil," the Rapture is easily identified in a sort of "Left Behind" treatment of the phenomenon, and despite the last two thirds of the film playing out in confined rooms no larger than your typical 2-car garage, it's engaging. The film is a bit overwrought with symbolism and metaphors that will just fly over the head of the average movie-goer, but that's right in line with the Book of Revelations itself which features purple-headed dragons and whores of Babylon (by the way it's also quite obvious that the USA = Babylon in the film which I found particularity well done).Overall this film is about arrogance and the consequences of doing what you know you shouldn't no matter how bad you want it. Seems simple enough, right? There are only a few signs of "low-budget" film-making during the entire 90 minute show, but nothing that stands out as ridiculous or absurd with exception to a scene where a doctor listens to "Ave Maria" while cutting up one of his creations with an Exacto blade. Overall the piece was well constructed and the filmmakers certainly shot for the moon in their first efforts to make a splash. The skills of the film making team are clearly substantial and they should get a pat on the back for trying to do something so large and complex the first time out.

Contrary to its so-bad-it's-good reputation, this thematically-bizarre production plays out with such an earnest tone that the cynical viewer's laughter might very well die on the lips. The first half-hour, in fact, actually shows signs of promise, and there's little evidence of any problems caused by the film's reportedly slim budget. The story-line then jumps ahead seven years, however, and trouble arrives. America, according to the movie, is now in the grip of some sort of new Ice Age, and the cast spends the rest of its time bundled up like extras from Robert Altman's "Quintet," confined to dimly-lit rooms, their breath coming out in visible vapor. The cloning-divinity premise of the movie is so strong -- implausible but strong -- that this sudden swerve into an Ice Age apocalypse seems not only unnecessary but distracting. It's as if the writers' mistakenly thought their premise couldn't carry an entire movie so they decided to throw in something else. The movie weakens at this point and never recovers despite an ending that, to put it mildly, goes beyond the curious. One final note: co-writer, co-star Joe Schneider looks mighty good with his shirt off.