Homestead 2024 Movie Review
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Angel Studios, the family-friendly, faith-based production company behind last year's staggering $14 million box office hit "Sound of Freedom" (which grossed nearly $200 million at the box office), is developing this survival drama in the wake of a terrorist attack. Food, water and other necessities are scarce. Things become scarce while infrastructure and laws collapse. Browse this movie on myflixer movies.
The "What and Why" is a dirty bomb delivered on a sailing ship and detonated off the coast of Los Angeles. Communications are silenced and the people living on the titular vast vineyard-like estate are locked down. Billionaire Ian Ross (played by the sharp-eyed Neal McDonough), head of a lavish mansion, hires his own security force, led by ex-Green Beret Jeff Erickson (Bailey Chase), to eliminate the mob (those looking for food and... shelter).
"Homestead" is based on the "Black Autumn" series by Jeff Kirkham and Jason Ross and was directed in part by Ben Smallbone. It's full of provocations -- the haves versus the have-nots, what to eat when the corner store is empty, and commitment to community, that is. h. But none of it is particularly inspiring. Part of the reason is that Ross and his crew are so self-righteous, desperate for a Marie Antoinette-style crowd at the gates, and Chase's agents are cold and distant, always coldly assessing the situation. Deductions: None of the characters are particularly relatable. The film ultimately works, but it seems pointless.
This year's Alex Garland-directed Civil War covers similar territory more evocatively. You have to be amazed at how barricaded Ross and his family are, and much of the film feels like a tour of a big mansion (though the setting is California, it's in Bountiful, Utah, not far from the headquarters of Angel Studios). (Tom Meek) At 12 AMC Assembly Row, 395 Artisan Way, Assembly Square, Somerville.
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