Six: The Mark Unleashed (2004)

User Rating:

2.2/10   

Director:

Kevin Downes

Writers:

Kevin Downes (writer)
Chipper Lowell (writer)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Thriller

Plot Keywords:

Rapture Aftermath | Dystopic Future | Christian Film | Ethics | Torture

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Stephen Baldwin	...	Luke
David A.R. White	...	Brody Sutton (as David White)
Kevin Downes	...	Jerry Willis
Jeffrey Dean Morgan	...	Tom Newman
Eric Roberts	...	Dallas
Amy Moon	...	Jeseca
Troy Winbush	...	Lewis
Coleman Luck	...	Charles
Sung Hi Lee	...	Beautiful Woman
Declan Joyce	...	Joe
Marc Elmer	...	CPF Guard
John Gilbert	...	Commander
Brad Heller	...	Preston Scott
Tiny Ron	...	Eddie
Elena Lyons	...	Rahab

Runtime:

104 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Germany:18 | Iceland:12 | Finland:K-15

Filming Locations:

Visalia, California, USA

Company:

Majestic Productions

Quotes:

[first lines]
Brody Sutton: I still remember. Saturday morning cartoons, must-see-tv, news, fair and balanced. I also remember the first two Gulf wars, the second great depression, school shootings, and the music. It's the music I miss the most. There was freedom then. Freedom to do terrible things, but freedom all the same.
Beautiful Woman: You will find that such primitive emotions and ideas as jealously, rage, sexual possessiveness, and monogamy have been eliminated. Your new implant has made you part of a collective whole known as the Community. In the Community you are truly free to move among partners, male or female, as you choose. Your pleasure will be your guide.
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Movie Connections:

References Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Taking the Mark

With such recognizable stars as Stephen Baldwin and Eric Roberts in it, Six, The Mark Unleashed has quite a bit more production values in it than you normally get from a Christian film. Note the producer is Paul Crouch, Jr. of the Crouch family of Trinity Broadcasting Network so it's not like they're short of funds.

The creative end of this film is Kevin Downes and David A.R. White who are the Ben Affleck and Matt Damon of the Christian film world. Note their respective credits, you'll find it almost exclusively in that genre.

Both of these two are getting a little old to be playing juveniles although Downes has quite the baby face, just like Matt Damon. They're a couple of petty criminals who get caught with some stolen items, but more important than that, they're caught with a counterfeit mark. The mark of course is the mark of the anti-Christ and it's a computer chip planted for thought control. That's an automatic death sentence.

In prison they're tossed in with Jeffrey Dean Morgan who neither buys into the thought control of the world 'Leader' who's come to power or with the Christian apocalyptic theology. He's a former cop and that makes him a good candidate to infiltrate the Christians and kill a new 'prophet' with the shegetz name of Elijah Cohen. Morgan's ex-wife Amy Moon dreamed up this assignment. Morgan escapes with White and Downes who has now become a believer. The rest of the film is what happens to the three of them.

Baldwin and Roberts lend their names to this project in strictly minor roles for box office. Usually these films immediately go to the Christian television circuit with a limited if any kind of run on the big screen.

If you're a believer this film is better than average, if you're not the story will be silly and trite. Reviews for these kind of films are wasted because the audience is a built in one, dictated by religious beliefs. Kind of like a Star Trek movie in that way.