As always, nothing is ever that simple and as with everything there’s always more than meets the eye. Breen is a man with a plan, which should strike fear into the hearts of anyone. Hewitt Las Vegas’ most famous former realtor and architect turned Christian geek green-Marxist is dangerously enthusiast and wholly unencumbered by his lack of talent in every department. Now (2009) before it this one too is imbued with New Age mysticism which might, or might not, be Native American in nature. As such, Fateful Findings is the third of his religious-patriotic-jingoistic supernatural thrillers and his most ambitious (or unhinged) by a wide margin. Like all true gems enshrined in the pantheon of bad moviedom the power lies not so much in the number of productions that Neil Breen has amassed, but that each and every feature of his defies conventional criticism by their inherent weirdness. His modest body of work might not seem very daunting but the sheer concentration of awful within such a small repertoire has led to a veritable cult worship of his work. Fateful Findings is a transcendental, transformative work loaded to the gill with just about every dell of insanity and one that Breen has had trouble living up to ever since. White, Geovanni Molina, Kirk Cameron, and Neil Breen. Christian fringe cinema has appointed its own Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: David A.R. In other words, this is anything and everything you’d want out of a Breen production. If Double Down (2005) offered a mere glimpse into the fractured psyche of a man with a tenuous grip on sanity then Fateful Findings is where old Neil went gloriously off the deep end. Not since Black Magic Rites (1973) and Ogroff (1983) was something so divorced from reality, so fantastically misguided, so life-affirmingly riveting in its complete and utter direness. Now (2009) – and probably not in the way he intended or imagined. Breen flabbergasted the world with Double Down (2005) and I Am Here…. Staggeringly incompetent on just about every level, impenetrable for the uninitiated, jarringly disjointed for the bad cinema aficionado, and incomprehensible for everybody else Fateful Findings is Neil Breen’s undiluted masterpiece. Plot : novelist vows to end government and corporate corruption.
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