Cactus Jack (2021)

Cactus Jack: Directed by Chris Thornton, Jay Thornton. With R. Michael Gull, Sam Kozé, Chris Thornton, Gregg Zart. When an amateur documentarian sets out to make a film about a man who hasn’t left his mother’s basement in six months, he discovers the recluse is in fact a vile doomsday hatemonger. The tables are turned when the maniac snaps, imprisons him, and takes control of the cameras to start a vitriolic, venomous podcast-making enemies far and wide and promising violent retribution.

“I gave it a 5/10 because I think they were at least trying to do something interesting. A lot of the 1 or 2 star reviews on here are pretty clearly from conservatives upset about the filmu0026#39;s message and u0026quot;propaganda.u0026quot; I suppose thatu0026#39;s understandable. My issue with the film is not the message, but rather that it just isnu0026#39;t very good. You can only look at the same few shots of a guy talking to a camera for so long before it gets old. The Cactus Jack Show sections are far more interesting. We finally get some vibrant color and the imagery is pretty horrifying and surreal. If more of the film was like that – or if it had a narrative element at all – this could have really been something. Iu0026#39;m hoping that the people who made this film learn some lessons from it, because I think they have real potential.”