Plot or Premise

Colter Shaw is looking for two kids accused of a hate crime, yet neither have a history of such behaviour. They have both been acting off though and their lives are spiralling with every cop looking for them. Shaw finds them, a simple retrieval for their parents, and then the unthinkable happens. One of them happily commits suicide rather than going home. Colter has to know why.

What I Liked

Colter goes undercover at a special actualization camp where everyone is encouraged to revisit all their negative elements from their life in order to eliminate them and to focus on positive elements instead. A brutal self-assessment to get to the final level. The first bits of it all seem entirely normal until it starts be a little more cult-like. It is disturbing how much the cult leader sounds like Donald Trump’s campaign speeches (a deliberate imitation, no doubt, with some of the mannerisms almost 1:1).

What I Didn’t Like

The great way the cult leader becomes more Trump-like also takes away from the story as some of it seems less “God-like” and more satirical or farcical. While all of the members are “broken” over the death of a loved one, there doesn’t seem to be enough in the “cult” methodology to really hold them. The final ending seems more action hero than rewardist.

The Bottom Line

Could have used more creepy cult, less action