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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.

Don't waste your time -- Aside from the poor acting and dialog that sounds like it's being read from a list of ingredients on the side of a cereal box, this movie attempts to discreetly insert god into the dialogue, but it comes across as strained as inserting a square peg into a round hole, completely lacking subtlety and not at all believable. Check out Knudsen's Wikipedia page. If he wanted to create a Christian movie he should have done so, and been more open about it. Instead he has hidden behind blaming others for his lack of understanding of actual historical events. I'm neither Christian nor Jew, so I have no horses in this race. Maybe he needs to watch The Da Vinci Code to see how it's done.

Be sure to wear a helmet in order to avoid serious head trauma from the "subtle" message being hammered into your brain by this piece of propaganda. Seriously, though... This movie is simply awful. If you look up "hackneyed" in the dictionary you will find its plot synopsis. It is - apart from anything else - blatant Christian hyperbole. Each of the characters are nothing more than cardboard cutouts of one-dimensional depth. It was impossible for me to suspend disbelief sufficiently to enjoy it. In short, if you see this movie approaching you, run. Screaming.

This is simply terrible in every aspect including acting, dialog and mainly the script Asides from the author having no clue about how things work in the real world (classes at college, security clearance, financial transactions being printed out and kept in a warehouse, the leading financial body of the world doing a hard reset of its IT where all data is lost, etc.), there are only thinly veiled undertones to conspiracy theories.

Even when working on a limited budget, filmmakers should be able to bring across a certain amount of character development, sympathy for the protagonist and so on. These people are just reading their lines as generic as possible, there is no life in anybody, and the characters are stereotypes, even with the names.

Too bad to be a serious movie, too bad to be an enjoyable fun watch.