Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Leofwine_draca 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.

elfoyzur The movie definitely did not begin with a bang, which from the title i wasn't expecting. The realistic situation of two paramedics responding to an emergency call sounds like an everyday task, so not giving any indication that this was a sci-fi movie. However once the plot starts to thicken, you tend to want to know more, you begin to wonder why the things which happen, happen, leaving you in a 'dimension' of mystery almost throughout the movie.The ending alone i would say is the backbone of this film, without which i would have most probably prayed to have my 90 minutes back.Given the budget of this movie, it is a watchable late night 'time passer' if you don't have anything better to do. The actors make the story very much believable and the storyline finally get to some sort of climax. There's not really much else to say...

mtwalsh16 Set in the eerie, furtive realm of cult followers to a bewitching music score by Kays Al-Atrakchi, "Believers" is, in true Myrick style, a masterfully crafted thriller, reliant on an atmosphere of menace and suspense, as opposed to the ubiquitous gore of most contemporary film. Through the terrifying ordeals of 2 paramedics kidnapped by the Quanta Group, led by the Teacher, issues of destiny and its attainment, introspection, religion versus science, power of suggestion and gullibility are highlighted, enabling the viewer to evaluate and ponder what might be. Most notable, is the riveting performance by Daniel Benzali, who, as the Teacher, is at his insidious, evil best. His spellbinding, measured, haunting tone of voice crystallizes the mood of the whole film, making him, without doubt, the "master of creepy". Brilliantly counterbalanced to his character is that of young Libby, whose mind, like all the others, is anesthetized by the miasma of unconditional trust, innocently misplaced in that false sense of security of blind faith, so intrinsic to cult rationale. Believe it! "Believers" is a must-see.

PhilipGHarris Is that a weird freaky cultist being interviewed on the telly? Welcome to the world of Believers.It has to be said that this film isn't bad but… it isn't great either.After the early introduction of a TV interview the action moves to the County Fire Department, the fire chief telling one of our heroes, Victor, to, "eat his own lunch" – obviously a problem in this fire house. Acting at the beginning is of numerous types of wood. Fortunately Victor and Dave (two of the less wooden ones) get sent off to deal with a woman who fainted.I don't really know the structure of County Fire Departments in the US but do they really do ambulance work? Here they find a mother and daughter (the best actor in the film) the mother having tattoos that Victor notes "Never seen tattoo's like that before", possibly because they were drawn on with a marker.Then suddenly the evil garage owner has rung the cultists and they turn up and take them captive. Why the garage owner waited until now to contact them and why the cultists take them with them is unknown, but take them they do.We then enter the conversion phase where they try and convince them, indeed this is the main part of the movie.Oh I forgot Victor is shot. Not terminally.Dave makes some abysmally weak attempts to test the wire mesh and you wonder why he doesn't brace himself against the wall and kick it through. You also wonder why he doesn't use the cistern lid. (Carefully removed in the other cells).We go back to the girls mother who goes through full conversion while the cultists complain that her daughter shouldn't be here (erm… put her somewhere else).Then back to Dave, Victor a completely unconcerned Fire Chief, even though his men have been missing for ages and the obligatory Dave's wife ringing him to find out where he is shot. You wonder how long the emergency services are going to wait before reacting. I also thought emergency vehicles had tracers.Dave continues to fail to note he has a cistern lid to use as a weapon. Victor's strong faith seems to be put to the test with the merest nod of his history being revealed and the viewer is possibly left a bit perplexed by why they might be watching this.As the Chief comes to find his men the garage attendant uses a monkey wrench to disable the radio – which part of this cult of elite scientists did he belong to – and then takes out the chief who manages to miss a huge fire vehicle in a garage at point blank range for longer than any normal human.The big cheese finally talks to Dave and Victor to reveal Victor trained as a priest. Victor is alarmed and wonders how he knew as he has not told anyone. I assume the church keep records.On return to the cells Dave fails to use the cistern lid again and then tells them to stitch Victor's bullet wound – a puncture wound shouldn't be stitched.Victor then falls for the old conversion by sex routine (the girls mother and general titillation for some watching) and Dave finally after another pathetic attempt to break from his cell finally does what the audience wants and uses the cistern lid. Hooray.Rebecca (mother) sure fire conversion seems to be failing (possibly being used as a sex tool by these great minds) and I began to ask exactly why the cult needed her and her daughter back.However they make an escape, Dave and Libby (daughter) and drive the ambulance for what seems a few yards, driving onto a dirt track – why not stay on the road? – to find a view over the city. Again weren't they miles out and hard to find. The four wheel drive vehicle then gets stuck in dirt. Well they had to be captured somehow! The leader (called "Teacher") who initially said he couldn't see anyone due to infection is suddenly out amongst his people and tells Dave that they, "Don't kill" ending his rant with the fact that he'll "see he (Dave) is put to sleep." Vic's sexual exploits have obviously taken their toll as he is now in a wheelchair and has had the fastest tattoo (cult symbol on back of neck that represents their individualism in the universe – or it's just a Greek letter!) obviously that marker again.They escape, except Victor who can't break the conditioning – no wonder he failed as a priest. They had to really and social services leave Libby in Dave's care, because you would wouldn't you? The ending is good, I want to know which film they nicked the special effect from and all in all the films not bad.Music and direction are more than adequate but someone should have looked into the continuity and filed off all the sharp edges that didn't make sense.You're always limited by your budget and they used it well and the end product is enjoyable but by no means perfect.