Amerigeddon (2016)

From the remainder bin at Best Buy comes Amerigeddon. A "The New World Order is coming after your guns" movie, the back of the box features endorsements from "Fox & Friends" (no specific Fox & Friends friend is named, just Fox & Friends generally is said to dub this the "ultimate political thriller") and InfoWars Alex Jones who appears in this movie as a United States Senator (Mr. Jones cameo necessities another, in this case bearded man playing the host of InfoWars in the movie). Directed by Chuck Norris's son Mike Amerigeddon principally follows three Texas families in the run up to and subsequent fallout from and EMP attack on North America. Said EMP attack is ordered by the apparently British "Chairmen" of the United Nations from his offices in Dubai. The movie is loaded with long standing often ridicules right wing conspiracy troupes, and some instances of rather bad acting, especially from the woman playing the "Chairmen's" wife, who comes across as having never been in front of a camera before, and the Russian colonel played by Chuck Huber, who goes out of his way to seem suspicious and like a caricature out of an 80's action movie. This picture also has a fair amount of low budget B movie charm, and most of the cast is passable given the limited demands of the picture. I especially liked Spencer Neville as the juvenile lead, and co-writer/ executive producer Gary Heavin's performance as "Charlie", which he plays as kind of a poor mans Gerald McRaney. The only actor whose career seems to have gotten bigger after this movie is India Eisley as the young love interest.

It took me awhile to figure out how I felt about this movie as a movie, until I realized that it really doesn't play like a traditional movie at all. Rather it plays like the pilot movie of a TV series as there are so many unresolved story lines introduced over the course of its 90 minute running time. Principally of course the big question is what happens now, after the groups first battle with U.N. forces, but also how do our characters deal with Beatty's cancer, does Roger ever make it to Austin to warn the governor, does Charlie ever revel his true feelings to Kelly? I kind of want to know these things in spit of myself. This movie is not good per say, but not as bad as I was anticipating, in fact its kind of likable, in a corny way. *1/2