Good concept, poorly executed.

Disturbing yet enthralling

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Believers is a shocking sci-fi movie that blows knowing and the last man on earth away.Two paramedics are caught by a bizarre end of the world cult that takes them hostage and shows them miracles they never seen.The teacher was mesmerizing as he showed how numbers can unlock The secrets to life, bring The dead back and transform matter into different substances.Still it doesn't explain exactly how he can communicate telepathically or perform resurrection since it isn't shown.What makes it enjoyable, like children of the corn, is that you have to decide for yourself what are The differences between an organized religion and a cult. Even the bible says false prophets will come performing miracles and great signs to deceive the disbelieving. David questions the teacher and in the end escape not believing its all true as the doomsday cult are ready to transform for a new world. Victor is left behind under being convinced the world will be distorted and they are the only ones whip knows how to survive it. Drawing eerie similarities to the cult members who believed aliens were hiding on an asteroid.The overwhelming performs are amazing for a b film and had me convinced that these people could be under an hypnotic spell.Enjoy believers, it will leave you astounded.

BELIEVERS is another film from BLAIR WITCH director Daniel Myrick, a guy whose track record has been less than stellar since his debut hit (the last I saw was THE OBJECTIVE, a less-than-memorable experience). BELIEVERS is a film about a couple of innocent men who find themselves kidnapped by an end of the world cult who use murder and madness to justify their ends.It sounds like a decent set-up and it is, but the storyline goes absolutely nowhere. Like SAW, much of the running time involves a couple of guys incarcerated in a room, and that's it. The terrible script fails in all attempts to make characters likable and the almost entire lack of incident and action makes it a slow and gruelling viewing experience. It's a film that it's hard not to nod off to.While watching, I was constantly reminded me of the Gareth Evans directed segment from V/H/S 2, which has a similar premise but goes absolutely crazy with it and is all the better for it. If only BELIEVERS had a little of that short film's energy; instead, it's a real, soul-crushing, dud.

Completely predictable, terrible acting, slow long conversations that do not amount to much. In fact, much of what happens during this movie is annoying and unrealistic. The characters behave in a manner that does not make sense which I assume is supposed to be a tactic used as an attempt to add suspense; however, I found it ineffective. One of the good qualities of the movie was some of the ideas behind the story and through the design, but that is all the movie seems to contain: a hand full of good ideas that were sadly not shown in an entertaining, or a realistic manner. I understand that the movie is fiction, but it needed to have better actors, stronger dialog, and slightly realistic reactions by characters. This would have made a great book, but it made for a horrible movie.

I kind of expected it about half way through the film. What if this wasn't just another "escape-by-suicide" doomsday cult? Suppose one of them really got it right. They really weren't killing themselves but where really going to a new world and our old one was about to dissolve.It did help that the "followers" appeared to be scientists. Like maybe there was more credibility to them than one would think. And, of course, the idea of mathematics to explain all and fix all is not really that far out.Ultimately, I was hoping for a "quantum-generated" worm hole that would whisk the believers away even if the implication might be it was simply a high-tech suicide machine. I suppose that was beyond the budget of this film and they opted for a "gas chamber" and having to "die" in these mortal bodies…thus somewhat prolonging the film's conclusion but only by a couple of minutes.At any rate, getting to the resolution was rather laborious and tortured. There were a lot of plot holes and conveniences which ultimately "fail" the film. Without getting too far into it, why destroy/eliminate everything including the paramedics if everything is going to burn up in a couple of weeks anyway? The list goes on.Nevertheless, Johnny Messner, as David and Jon Huertas, as Victor, were very convincing. One resisted the pull towards immorality and the other embraced it. That kind of "push/pull" is very good. Both were driven by their character backgrounds although Victor having sex with the "dead woman" seemed to ultimately predominate his prior religious background. His religious past actually would have worked well but the whole sex thing ultimately became just another needless plot hole.