Set in a mid apocalyptic near future, 'The Humanity Bureau' is a clichéd dystopian thriller overlayed with Trumpian/ vaugly Q-Anon adjacent conspiracism (death panels, positive reference to a late president Trump). Nic Cage is an agent of "The Humanity Bureau", an Orwellian US Government agency tasked with relocating "un productive" citizens to a new life in "New Edan". Now "New Edan" is pretty clearly a euphonium for killing government designated undesirables, but it takes about 27 of this movies 95 minutes for Cage to figure this out.
Armed with this new information Cage procedes to go on the run to Canadia with an attractive single mom and son who he was supposed to relocate. Cage is persued by an obsessive friend and coworker who feels betrayed by Nic's defection. So the basic story is barrowed from 'Logan's Run'. This is pretty bottom of the barrel stuff, almost like the script was written by an AI that was feed clichés. Cage's presence and antagonist Hugh Dillion's hammyess makes this almost watchable. *
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