In a remote space observatory perched high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a needle frantically scratches erratic lines on a strip chart recorder confirming an extraterrestrial signal. Emmett Shaw, the powerful, charismatic billionaire who owns the observatory, rushes to the station, hungry to expose the discovery. This is the biggest moment in human history and he is the man responsible for it all. With the goal of immediately sharing the signal with the entire world, he brings along two leading journalists--Kara Walsh, an extremely attractive, top-notch investigative reporter who begrudgingly owes her career to Shaw, and Reverend Fletcher, a new age visionary with the hottest radio show in the country. Also accompanying Shaw is Jack Jones, a scruffy but brilliant computer technician whose pessimistic and often sarcastic attitude ruffles many feathers in the group--especially Smitty's, the program director, who happens to be Jack's ex-girlfriend and the only Christian in the group.
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I am a Christian. I believe Jesus is the son of the living God, the only begotten of the Father and the only name whereby we can be saved. And I believe this movie stank!The movie's theme was the broadcast from the pseudo-extraterrestrial source that really was evil. Strange and horrible things happen. We see the evil of government, the evils of telepathy and mind control and the evil of phony religion and the evil of phony news broadcasters, and in the end the cute couple are saved (physically as well as spiritually) and make it through just fine. They even make a convert.And it was still BAD.Lou Gossett was just utterly wasted. I do hope they paid him double. The rest were cheap Canadian actors.
Remember the '70s movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind? How about that other '70s movie, (horror this time,) The Omen? Close Encounters of the Third Kind + The Omen = Cloud Ten's latest production, (the first one I've seen, btw,) Deceived. The plot is as follows: Two resident technicians are in a lonely remote mountain observatory in the High Sierras. They discover a signal. They think it's from space until they listen to it. One tech, Tim, goes insane and kills his friend and co-worker. He's hanged upside down in a closet to die. The dying technician writes the words "DO NOT RELEASE" in his own blood. S P O I L E R S P A C EEmmet Shaw, an enigmatic billionaire, who owns the observatory, is going up to the observatory to do a live broadcast and send the signal out over the internet. Shaw's team includes Jack Jones, a technician, Kara Walsh, an investigative reporter who was one a weather girl and owes her career to Shaw, Reverend Jeremiah Fletcher, a minister with the largest radio talk show in the country, and Smitty, the only Christian among them. Shaw and his team arrive at the observatory on the edge of a storm. They're surprised when the resident techies aren't there to greet them. Where are they? What the Sam Hill happened? They, and we, don't know yet. They take up residence at the observatory and wait out the storm. Then they each hear the signal. Shaw, Fletcher, and Walsh are all affected by it. Smitty, the project's director, who's a Christian, and Jack, who's partially deaf. Then the Army arrives ahead of the same storm. Fletcher thinks that we're going to be made into gods. Jack and Smitty uncover the truth. It's non-specific, there aren't any cross-checks, uncontainable, and it only lasts for 6.66 seconds. What's the meaning of this? That's where The Omen comes in. 666 is the Mark of the Beast---i.e., the Antichrist, and it only has one source----H-e-double-hockeysticks. As they try to get out of the observatory, Smitty finds the bodies of the technicians. When the Colonel hears the signal, he's also affected by it as are his soldiers. The only one who isn't is Lieutenant Vasquez, who can literally kill with a thought. When both the Colonel and a soldier try to shoot her, she has the Colonel shoot himself in the leg. She also has the soldier shoot himself. Fletcher, a fat oaf, sees a chocolate cake, Devil's Food Cake perhaps? in the refrigerator and pigs out on it. He commits two of the Seven Deadly Sins, gluttony, and pride, Shaw commits avarice, the Colonel pride, and Kara lust. Kara wants to get into Jack's pants. So Jack resists. Shaw fires Smitty, and Smitty confronts Jack as to why they weren't affected. In the powerful climax, the signal's defeated and everyone's saved.
This pretty much fits into the realm of the B budget sci-fi category. The brand name actors do an ok job but they fall victim to the script at hand. I would advise most people to avoid this film since they probably don't have the appetite for the preachings put forth in the film.Before seeing this movie, I had no idea that a Christian Film genre even existed. I will probably not sleep well tonight knowing that it does. It's not nice to sugarcoat your brainwashing, people.
Cloud Ten has made some pretty decent films in the past such as the Apocolypse Series, which I actually enjoyed, but this film is pure garbage. Thank God I didn't pay full price for it ( I auctioned it off of ebay for around $10.00). This movie should be number one in the "Worst Movies of All Time". The storyline is so retarded. If you don't want to waste your time and money, do yourself a favor and avoid seeing this film. -1/10
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