Mayflower II [2020]

Part of the selling point of this film was Sarah telling us that it had a budget of only $30,000 and it took six years to make. Obviously, it looks terrible. It's also Christian. It even stars the "Jewish" couple from The Unexpected Bar Mitzvah. The real problem with this movie is that it's completely incoherent. To give a little credit, it's clear that the writers had a dystopia in mind and really wanted to show and not tell, but the end result is that we never knew what was going on at any given moment. Still, I'll try to relate the plot.

There's a guy whose brother is some kind of Christian radical in a world where all Christians have to conform to a specific view of Christianity. We are never really told what this view is. Our guy is told about a secret ship his brother has stashed away for an escape called the Mayflower II, but when the brother's prayer meeting is raided by the cops, our guy and his wife take off in the ship alone to Mars. There's a colony there, that is definitely a mashup of a college campus and a midrange hotel, but you aren't allowed to leave. We don't really know why except that it's supposed to be a prison of sorts. However, they do leave when they learn that the government is planning an attack to blame on the Christian radicals. They go to Earth to save them and they all escape in the Mayflower II ship bound for who knows where. Probably starvation realistically, but apparently this was the first of a planned trilogy.

The sheer confusion we suffered watching this really brought down the viewing experience but there was a lot of fun to be had in the cheap sets and costumes and the fact that the main actor only has one distressed face that he uses the whole film. We wouldn't recommend a watch, but at an hour and fifteen minutes it could have been worse.

Spoon Rating: 4