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DVD The Phoenix Rises
 Rating: 2.5 Genres: Sci-Fi Director: Drew Hall Writers: Denny Wilkins Stars: James Black, Adam Cardon, Catalina Soto-Aguilar Kind |
| Storyline Worlds collide when a team of brilliant scientists are recruited to work with a secretive government run program called the Phoenix Project and are challenged with creating defenses against a technologically powerful terrorist group. |
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| Plot Keywords: phoenix, top secret, conspiracy theory, chemtrails | |
| Details: Country: USA Release Date: 10 December 2012 (USA) |
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| Box Office Budget: $3,000,000 (estimated) |
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DVD The Phoenix Rises
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The Phoenix Rises is definitely a product of the "School of Amazingly Bad Lost Rip-Offs," a.k.a. SABLRO.
My first clue that this was purely a SABLRO movie was the frantic cutting back and forth with the funky beam weapon zapping the universe. Then we cut back in time to the trademark "Mysterious Introduction with Death Defying Leaps." Unfortunately we then got subject to the "mysterious danger" – coming in the form of the zombie looking woman with a machine gun as that patented Cool Hero goes through the would be massacre without a scratch or even breaking a sweat. Then we get the Sayid Jamal rip-off crazed torturer and assassin.
You think I am making this up? I wish I were. This one hurt my eyes and my brain. It even hurt my ears with amazingly clanging, jangling noise they called music.
If you value the health of your brain, stay away.
A team of scientists discover that someone is messing with world weather. After reporting their findings a government agent is dispatched to brief them on a government project and enlist their help to discover the truth…. blah blah blah…. I normally wouldn't waste any more of my time than i already have by watching this but I needed to stop others from 2 hours that they will never get back. The Acting – OMG, Really what were they thinking. My speak n tell could do a better job and i don't even own one. The Plot – Are you serious, been done before with better acting and a storyline. To the 13 or so votes that rated 10, you should be ashamed of yourselves for misleading other users and tricking them into watching this so called movie.
Whoever made this should either stop making movies or stop doing drugs.
This entire movie is basically extended torture scene. It starts of badly and it simply never gets any better. It really would not surprise me if somebody prone to seizures got one from attempt to watch this crap. Just imagine somebody holding directional strobe light pointed directly at your face for entire length of bad movie and you get an idea of what this movie plays out like.
Acting is also just atrocious. I do not see these people getting much work as actors in their future. I think any decent actor would be ashamed of being in this movie and unwilling to be credited in it. Those without foresight to request they not be credited, … my condolences.
I saw this movie in redbox and was intrigued by the theme of terrorists being able to alter the weather and use it as a weapon. Oops!! Big Mistake!!
This may be the only film I've ever seen that is divided between acting and dialog that you might encounter in a 4th grade play combined with scientific terminology that you would need an advanced degree in physics to understand. Plus, every 10 minutes or so you are served up flashbacks and flash forwards with incredibly annoying loud electrical static.
The premise revolves around a supposed imminent terrorist attack on the U.S., which will be conducted by using a device that will heat up the earth's ionosphere layer, some sixty miles above the ground. This disturbance can then be directed to cause a huge earthquake in California and a Cat. 5 Hurricane in Louisiana.
So an expert team of scientists and meteorologists are sent to Kansas City, Missouri to try and draw up immediate counter measures to stop this attack. However, the film gets so convoluted with confusing plots and sub-plots, blackmail, and interoffice romances that it just completely falls apart into a totally muddled and amateurish mess. The ending as well is just laughable, in my opinion.
This movie might also be the first one I've seen where the credits both in the beginning and end do not list a writer, although I see IMDb has one listed. That probably should have told me something as well.
In my opinion, don't waste your time or money on this "turkey"