Revelation Road: The Beginning of the End (2013)

★ 4.6 1h 28m IMDb

Josh McManus, a traveling salesman with a cloudy past, finds himself in a dusty West Texas town at the wrong time. After a crippling series of earthquakes throws the entire world into chaos, a traveling salesman will have to fight his way through a vicious outlaw biker gang known as the Barbarians to get home to his family.

Revelation Road: The Beginning of the End

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Cast

David A.R. White
David A.R. White as Josh McManus Age 55 · Dodge City, Kansas, USA ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   David Andrew Roy White, also known as David White, is an American actor, screenwriter and producer. He grew up in a small farming town that was located outsi...
Ray Wise
Ray Wise as Frank Age 78 · Akron, Ohio, USA Raymond Herbert Wise (born August 20, 1947) is an American actor best known for his role as Leland Palmer in Twin Peaks (1990–1991, 2017) and its prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992). He...
Brian Bosworth
Brian Bosworth as Hawg Age 61 · Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA Brian Keith Bosworth (born March 9, 1965), nicknamed "the Boz", is an American actor and former football linebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for three seasons with the Seattle...
Eric Roberts
Eric Roberts as Sheriff Jensen Age 70 · Biloxi, Mississippi, USA Eric Roberts (born April 18, 1956) is an American actor. His career began with a well-received performance in King of the Gypsies (1978), for which he earned his first Golden Globe Award nomination. H...
Andrea Logan White
Andrea Logan White as Cat Age 47 Andrea Logan White grew up in a small town in Illinois. She moved to San Diego with her father after she graduated high school and attended Mira Costa College. At this time she got the acting bug whil...
Jen Lilley
Jen Lilley as Rachel McManus Age 41 · Roanoke, Virginia, USA Jen Lilley (born August 4, 1984) is an American actress and singer. After playing a supporting role in the 2011 French film The Artist, she portrayed Maxie Jones on the ABC soap opera General Hospital...

Audience Reviews

clyde e collins 6/10 Mar 24, 2015
**Fundamentals, reception.**

1. American live action feature length film, 2013, NR, 88 minutes, drama, action, thriller.
2. IMDB: 4.5/10.0 from 1,003 audience ratings.
3. Rotten Tomatoes: 'No reviews yet,' and 'No score yet.'
4. Netflix: 3.6/5.0 from 229,395 audience ratings.
5. Directed by: Gabriel Sabloff.
6. **Starring**: David A. R. White as Josh McManus, Brian Bosworth as Hawg, Eric Roberts as Sheriff Jensen, Jen Lilly as Rachel McManus, Ray Wise as Frank, Logan White as Cat.

**Setup and Plot**

1. Josh drives through the desert to his next sales opportunity before he returns home. He is rear-ended by some hold-up artists. A gang, The Barbarians, drops by and inadvertently helps him get free. Josh continues to Frank's hardware store, where he tries to sell some body armour. Frank feels Josh out about his core values, as it were. A contingent of Barbarians bursts in and starts a strong arm robbery. Josh's skills kick in. He kills three of the Barbarians, beats up some of the others, and sends the survivors packing.
2. Hawg, the leader of the Barbarians, has a couple of his more cleaver members reconnoiter. They scope out Frank's home, and the motel where Josh is staying. Hawg makes plans to strike back against those who killed some of this crew.
3. Hawg does indeed invade Frank's home. Frank and his wife fight back to some degree, but the gang disarms them. In parallel, Josh tries to help out a prostitute who has been beaten up by her, ah, employer. That does not go so well.
4. All this gets interrupted by a long depiction of the Rapture, which is much better done than in _The Mark_. I did not say it was great, just better than in _The Mark_.
5. The film sets up for part 2 after that.

**Conclusions**

1. One line summary: Depicts the beginning of the Christian apocalypse.
2. Three stars of five

**Scores**

1. Cinematography: 10/10 Beautiful; skillfully done.
2. Sound: 9/10 No particular problems.
3. Acting: 7/10 Ray Wise was professional as always; David White was better than competent; Brian Bosworth was better than I expected him to be. Eric Roberts was fairly good in the small role as the Sheriff. I also liked Logan White as Cat.
4. Screenplay: 5/10 The injection of Christian doctrine seems forced most of the time, but is much better done than The Mark, for instance. On the other hand, minus the doctrine, the film is short on story, and it is spread over 88 minutes.

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