Creed of Gold (2014) Reviews

• Scooby Doo Teens Battle the Illuminati!

  eqmanson-685882017-08-09

  If Creed of Gold had one ounce of subtlety, style, or credibility, it would qualify as evil propaganda. Fortunately, it is merely wretched. A cabal finances the Bolshevik Revolution with gold bars. A Russian reporter finds out, stashing the secret in a library stack before being gunned down by a young man in a Spy vs. Spy outfit (all the henchmen look like members of an intramural diving team). The paper (curiously in Latin not Cyrillic alphabet) is found decades later. Though the consortium could not know anything had been found, assassins materialize instantly to silence the finder dressed in trench coat and fedora two sizes too large. He leaves a wife and son who flee to America. Wife speak perfect English except articles pronouns pass paper to son seconds before takes train to college. The sprawling bucolic campus, whose name sounds like a Hogwarts house, manages to be around the corner from addresses in downtown Manhattan. We know this from the same establishing shot repeated four times. The son, cleverly named Adam Smith, takes over with his amoral lab partner Kirsten and super-programmer sidekick Cody. These very white college freshmen grew up in inner city gang culture, which will come in handy. Black-garbed goons lurk behind every tree, plus stairs of any house they might be needed. Within a few days the scrappy kids break through impenetrable security firewalls, wander past guards at the Federal Reserve and FBI (both riddled with the consortium's agents), perform feats of forensic accounting unimagined by any CPA, engage in car chases passing the same 42nd street corner over and over, and (spoiler alert!) get the bad guys arrested on the tarmac, bypassing probable cause laws and the years it would take to build a case against a scam that makes Bernie Madoff look like Harold Hill. The screenplay makes it crushingly obvious the writers know nothing about business, finance, accounting, law enforcement, data processing, computer software, college, geography (to name but a few) and therefore simply invent facts out of whole cloth to support the conspiracy theory their plot advances. Refuting the scores of howlingly baseless facts, which come so fast my pause button is worn out, would require a documentary longer than the movie itself. To call the film's ethnic theories idiotic would be flattery. While the film never comes right out and says the Jews are the "group" that controls the world, those who advance that theory in the real world certainly do. It takes malevolent delusion to convince one's self of these things, along with the kind of willful ignorance that supposes inner city gangs contain handsome whites or Slavic immigrants talk like Tarzan. For two extremely brief moments, the film self-identifies as a Christian movie. I would hope to see some disavowal from actual Christians.

• Not A Nice Try

  Tolexc2017-08-04

  Amateur hour. The writing is the main problem. It's stupefying and generic. Can't tell if the actors are any good because even if they were Oscar winners they would have problems reading life into these color-by-number, 2-dimensional characters. The conspiracy theory in this movie is uninspired, intellectually lazy and far-fetched. This film is a couple steps above a student project as it appears they had the budget to do some nice location shooting. There's not much of a backstory to the lead characters whereas they would have benefited by this by becoming more likable to the audience. More than anything this film reminds me of movies made for a Christian audience except focused on hitting the Fed as being the evil mover behind the modern economy.

• Premise sounds good, but ,,,,,

  jsbrowne82017-07-15

  The premise of this movie sounded really good and being a fan of thrillers, I thought this was a must watch. Wrong. The acting was so bad it was impossible to get involved in the plot. On top of that, the total lack of subtlety when something secretive or dangerous was about to happen made the movie look very amateurish - which is obviously is. There is not much more I can write about it as I only watched it for twenty minutes. I just could not take any more of it.

• UNIQUE, SMART, and RIVETING story

  bbw19912015-01-23

  Creed of Gold is a GREAT, action-packed film for the family. With the many re-makes and junk Mainstream Hollywood is producing, this film is refreshing. I hope to see the actors in other projects, specifically the Leading lady and Sidekick. All the cast and crew have a promising future in entertainment. Side note: The film could've been shorter... The writing had an amateurish feel at times, but the quirks made up for it. Sometimes a writer can get ahead of the budget. If you don't have the finances or time, cut back on the story. Works for a younger audience 12-18. I give it a 7.5.

• Good plot needs better cast and some editing

  digiteum2018-09-19

  I could take this movie, add an A list cast, improve the editing, and add to the story - in it's present form it felt like it was dubbed in places.