Resurrected

My two favorite things: religious extremism presented as drama, and social media. Great.

This movie asks us to believe the church—not scientists, the Catholic church—has perfected a never-explained technique for resurrecting the dead. Then the resurrected people, also with little explanation, begin organizing to kill as many people as possible so the “righteous”—determined by hiring hackers to review all people’s electronic records, phone calls, texts, etc for sin—can be the only ones brought back to life.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, the whole movie is told on the screen on a computer that a guy is sitting in front of. Even when he runs from the police, you only see it through conveniently-placed security cameras that it’s never explained why we’d be seeing the video from… the important thing is, everything is always seen through a diegetic camera: a phone, a facetime call, a security camera. Apparently this is supposed to add something to the experience.

Given all of that: this is actually on the better end of what that could possibly be.

Which is kind of like saying a thumbtacks-and-rubber-cement sandwich is on the better end of how a thumbtacks-and-rubber-cement sandwich could possbly taste.