Bayview Entertainment has lined up Apr. 21 as the
DVD debut street date for writer/director Jim Carroll provocative
sci-fi/terrorist/faith-based thriller, Assassin
33 A.D.
Those are a lot of genre boxes to check. A sci-fi film, certainly Assassin
33 A.D. lives up to that with time
travel at the core of it — accidental at that, the whiz kids were looking to
replicate the experiment from director Kurt Neumann’s 1958 film starring
Vincent Price, The Fly. You know, the transfer of matter from here
to there … what could wrong!
Terrorist tale, you betcha … and it is a
whopper. Ahmed (Gerardo Davila — No
Ordinary Love, 90 Feet From Home,
etc.) is a jihadist of the first order.
Kill anyone and everyone who disagrees with his view of the world. Keep that in mind, we will circle back to
him in a moment.
Assassin 33 A.D. is
also a faith-based film, which seems a little odd when you have sci-fi and
terrorist elements already on the table.
But there it is … and the message is forgiveness.
The film itself began as an unproduced screenplay
back in 2016 under the title “Resurrection Time Conspiracy,” and it was entered
into a number of competitions and got some good buzz. It is an interesting concept that flows
along the line of the “let’s kill Hitler become he comes to power” sort of
thing … only think bigger.
In any case, we are introduced to Ram Goldstein (Morgan
Roberts — Alien Theory, Armed Response), a
science nerd, who is working with his team on a research project to transfer
matter from point A to point B (The Fly). But to his horror, he discovers that the
funding is from an Islamic terrorist group run by the aforementioned Ahmed. He
has been spreading money around to various research groups to develop a covert
way to deliver weapons of mass destruction from point A to point B (saves on
knuckleheads with suicide vests).
When Ram and his team succeed, not in the core
assignment of matter transfer, but in creating a time travelling machine, Ahmed
is beside himself with joy. His plan
(and you’ve got to give him credit, he thinks BIG) is to send assassins back in
time and murder Jesus and his disciples and wipe out Christianity before it
ever takes root. Clearly, he has not
thought this through … without Jesus as a prophet; a messenger, there is no
Islam.
Any in case, the game is afoot, kill Jesus in the
past and change the future. The
assassins are dispatched and it is up to Ram and his nerds to stop them and
keep the timeline — for better or for worse — intact.
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