A Sacrifice (2024)

Plot of A Sacrifice: Ben Monroe is an American social psychologist working in Berlin who gives lectures in a university and seems to have an inside track to tragic events, with other academics, such as a mass suicide by a cult. His daughter Mazzy comes to stay with him and commences studying at what appears to be an American school. She meets a young man and becomes interested in him, but it becomes evident that he is part of a cult which has an agenda to reduce the population foot print on the planet. Mazzy also becomes involved and becomes dissociated from her father. But meanwhile he has become involved with an attractive female academic who seems to have some knowledge of this particular cult. As the cult moves towards extreme action and Mazzy falls totally under their influence how will it all end.

Content: No nudity, but indications that sex has taken place. I think there is some social drinking but no recreational drug taking, although drugs used by the cult. The main theme of the film is suicide so we see bodies after people have died. Mazzy becomes involved in the cult falling under the influence of a charismatic female leader, but actually is only there because she has fallen in love with a young German guy. In the end we see people committing suicide in a very unpleasant way. It is something parents might take into account when allowing their young children to watch it.

A View: The words ‘box office bomb’ can hardly applied to this outing , since it implies an expectation of success. It made $122,000 solely in Russia after 56 days, and we might hold the view that it was only released because Jordan Scott is Ridley Scott’s daughter. Almost no critics saw it and they mostly panned it. I had no idea that Ridley Scott had a daughter or that she had aspired to be a writer/director. I’m sure she has learnt a lot from this production, so it would be best for you to skip this film and see what she does next.

Fun Fact: The first film I have reviewed which has no Trivia in IMDb. Come on guys, get some intern to write something it costs nothing.