I was about 3/4 through this movie before I realized it was an overt Christian movie. Partly because the production quality is top notch and partly because I had recently seen Battlestar Galactica which featured extensive overt religious talk.

I was aware of the extensive Antichrist imagery and parallels but just assumed it was a secular movie based on that.

It seems to me this movie could be made without the completely on the nose parts (the camp Bible reading and some others) and it could be pretty commercial.

The RFID stuff works and the Antichrist here is FAR more effective than, say, Damien in the Omen. Here, he's a motivational speaker!

This is a rather well done movie that was shot on location in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The plot has to do with a college cutie named Roxy (Jennifer Cooper) who comes to realize that the outfit known as Zurn Global (with a logo in the shape of the horns of a calf) has been behind a series of deliberate bombings that have occurred nationwide, including a military base on the outskirts of Chicago that took the lives of forty people, including her Air Force fiancé. Ben Davies stars as Alliance officer Shaw 408, who finds a reason to question the Alliance. Eric Roberts makes a cameo appearance as bazillionaire moneybags Mr. Zurn who's all about peace, safety, and security; his company has mandated the installation of a radio direction information frequency, or RFID, chip in the hand of everybody. It's known as the Mark of the Beast. And it's being enforced by a paramilitary outfit known as the Alliance, who wear the calf horn symbol on their black uniforms; yeah, and they round up the few Christians left and enslave them, and turn the women into prostitutes, unwilling, of course. RUMOURS OF WARS ends on a cliffhanger note, of course. The few Christians manage to escape, and the movie ends with "To Be Continued". One of the other heavy hitters is Jaci Velasquez, who stars as one of the Christians named Beth. Here's a movie with hardly any visual effects, but it was very well done with Grand Rapids' rundown neighborhoods serving as an effective backdrop. 7/10, have a good look.

It was never made clear to me, but is this the future before or after the rapture? Churches are clearly gone from this society and the New World Order cops are rounding up suspected Christians and getting them and their influence eliminated. Racism seems to have gone because the commander is black. There's a nice university people are now going in and around what used to be Chicago. And the university is now offering chip implants which among other things will protect the implanted from identity theft. The better to keep track of citizens though. It's clearly the mark of the beast.

Rumors Of Wars is another paranoid glimpse by the religious right of its future of persecution under one world government which has as its laudable goal among others, the elimination of religious bigotry which has caused most of the wars the planet has seen. Watching this I was wondering whether a similar cadre of troops were busy rounding up Sunni Moslems in Mecca under the same one world government.

Leads here are Ben Davies one of the New World Order storm troopers who's having second thoughts about his mission rounding up dissidents and Jennifer Cooper who is a student who refuses to have the chip implant. Eric Roberts has a nice role where he hams it up as a Donald Trump like billionaire who is clearly going to turn out to be the Anti- Christ. Because clearly this is going to have sequels.

If you see conspiracies everywhere and love the religious right this is the movie for you.