Páiric O'Corráin
Imperium: Daniel Radcliffe is an FBI analyst with no field experience who is persuaded by senior agent Toni Collette to infiltrate the White Separatist movement after barrels of caesium go missing. Starting with skinheads he delves further and deeper into the white Power circles seeing their disagreements over dogma, how they flock around a low rent Alex Jones type. The disparate groups unite for a march and during a confrontation at this demo, Radcliffe rescues the leader of the Aryan alliance from attackers getting an in to the apparently more serious groups.Good Conspiracy/Thriller, Radcliffe is convincing, like Clark Kent he just has to take off his glasses to change from bookish analyst to Aryan Ubermensch. Collette is the driven cynical agent who is prepared to risk an inexperienced analyst on a deep cover mission but quite able to justify it to herself. We see scenes of a wedding taking place in front of burning swastikas and crosses, the penny ante Alex Jones is shown to be a conman: I don't believe in ZOG, I just tell these asses what they want to hear: I'm a Showman. The sense of threat that Radcliffe is constantly under is portrayed through dark filters indoors and washed out colours in forests. The plot has many twists and turns but the screenplay by director Daniel Ragussis delivers a coherent narrative. An impressive directorial debut by Ragussis. 8/10.
Gre da Vid
"Based on true events," usually means a good story. This film is no exception to that. I'm not a Radcliffe fan as an actor, but he does a credible job of acting in this film. It's worth viewing.
Hang_All_Drunkdrivers
Expected to see them portrayed as monsters but that was not the case at all. Most of them came across as good guys genuinely fighting for their country and their race and who can fault them for that. Hey - Abraham Lincoln was a white supremacist too and all his adult life he fought for returning blacks to Africa.The story in the movie as not that good though. The FBI is trying to track down some canisters of radioactive material before the white nationalists use the stuff in a bomb. The FBI agent is played by a mousy little guy and his boss is some transgendered freak. Both are very unlikable.The Dallas Wolf character is a thinly disguised Rush Limbaugh. "Hey, i'm just an entertainer."
Howlin Wolf
Has insightful things to say about conspiracy, and how easy it is to reach different conclusions, even when you're all working with the same data...This kind of paranoid atmosphere is often instigated by people playing a 'character' - manipulating an audience, and stirring up tension amongst the grunts.... and yet, some people still try to use 'entertainment' as a defence, in the courts... The older it gets, the more timely and topical this film will seem to be.