Too much of everything

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Blistering performances.

Imperium: Daniel Radcliffe is an FBI analyst with no field experience who is persuaded by senior agent Toni Collette to infiltrate the White Separatist movement after barrels of caesium go missing. Starting with skinheads he delves further and deeper into the white Power circles seeing their disagreements over dogma, how they flock around a low rent Alex Jones type. The disparate groups unite for a march and during a confrontation at this demo, Radcliffe rescues the leader of the Aryan alliance from attackers getting an in to the apparently more serious groups.Good Conspiracy/Thriller, Radcliffe is convincing, like Clark Kent he just has to take off his glasses to change from bookish analyst to Aryan Ubermensch. Collette is the driven cynical agent who is prepared to risk an inexperienced analyst on a deep cover mission but quite able to justify it to herself. We see scenes of a wedding taking place in front of burning swastikas and crosses, the penny ante Alex Jones is shown to be a conman: I don't believe in ZOG, I just tell these asses what they want to hear: I'm a Showman. The sense of threat that Radcliffe is constantly under is portrayed through dark filters indoors and washed out colours in forests. The plot has many twists and turns but the screenplay by director Daniel Ragussis delivers a coherent narrative. An impressive directorial debut by Ragussis. 8/10.

Nate Foster (Daniel Radcliffe) is an FBI desk jockey with a high IQ. When a white supremacist (Tracy Letts) announces on his show about some classified cesium-137 containers, Angela Zamparo (Toni Collette) recruits Nate to go undercover...shave his head, get a tattoo and immerse himself into the ZOG conspiracy. Nate meets with various characters and goes down several roads. The film goes into some of the details of the various theories associated with the movement and the differences within the group. The title of the film comes from a book. "The Turner Diaries" is cited as a way to eliminate "mud people" by creating an incident for the people to rally around.The film was interesting and keeps you engaged. However the technical aspect about Cs-137 was a laugh and they apparently had no guidance and less than Wikipedia knowledge on the topic.1) The amount of material that they had, they could have used a drone to detect it. 2) People in a vicinity would have had fatal radiation sickness as well as those who handled it because... 3) The script writer did not know the difference between radiation and contamination. 4) The small can provides very little shielding, it was immaterial to their exposure. Cesium 137 emits penetrating gamma radiation. 5) The level A suits they wore provides no protection from radiation and the ones they use had no breathing air, rendering the hoods useless. 6) Had they simply changed the isotope to say Strontium-90, a high energy beta emitter and bone seeker, then their actions would have made some sort of sense. Script writer Michael German, Former FBI Terrorism Specialist, gets an "F" on his radiological research. 7) Oh yes, The FBI is fully aware of white supremacists groups. They don't need to be convinced.Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity. Film was decent in spite of the goof.

Issues like fascism, white supremacism and terrorism have far more dramatic potential than shown in this movie.Particularly with regard to the characters. Even the base soldiers in nowadays movements are more complex in their state of mind and appearance and exist in more ambiguity than pictured here. The writers should have invested another 15 minutes in character-builing elements.The movie is just too cliché-ridden and simplifying - one both sides of Nates employments. In particular the Neo Nazi Movement in Europe is by far more perfidious and dishonest then those pictured in the movie.As much I liked many performances of Daniel Radcliffe of the past years, he doesn't convince me at all in this one.At least the movie is a professionally designed production. But that's pretty much it.

Very slow and laughably silly story. The uber liberal take on all Trump supporters are white supremacists, Jew haters etc. marching around screaming racist things and the anti-fa that are the ones wearing the mask, bullying and intimidating people with force during peaceful protests are not a problem. Disgusting and predictable tripe. Not to mention the story is just plain dumb. When they make the arrest he blows his cover right away. The acting is absurd, including Toni Collette's extremely annoying gum chewing and stupid facial expressions. The only victims are the idiots that watch and believe this pile of trash. It is so poorly written because it is complete fantasy land propaganda that fails miserably.