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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
In tone and theme, this reminded me of the first season of True Detective. The use of lighting throughout the movie is spectacular, and Nicholas Cage's performance is great.
On the other hand, why did they kind of just explain the whole mystery in a monologue... that was totally counterproductive. You gotta keep a sense of mystery alive with this kind of thing, once there are rules to the way that satan operates it's not really scary anymore.
It's not…
This movie is an empty shell. The director is ambitious enough to try to make a film about what everyone’s been thinking about since 2016, but is too scared to make the civil war ‘about’ anything.
If you do your best to ignore the idiotic holier-than-thou centrism of “war is pointless” then you can kind of just fill in the details and it’s an enjoyable watch to see the president get shot while journalists take photos of their friends dying…