Monday, March 2, 2020

Bayview Entertainment Picks Apr. 21 For The DVD Debut Of Writer/Director Jim Carroll's Faith-Based Thriller Assassin 33 A.D.


DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
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.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
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).

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph TribbeyWhen 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.  

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey



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