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This movie is a really great film. The special effects aren't the best, but you get the idea. THere's blood, guns, a superhuman woman on a rampage, Marines, Black Ops, and lots of times where Lara (the protagonist) chokes someone, breaks their necks, and once where she takes out a guy's heart, all with sick-sounding cracking sound effects.

The amazing part is that the producers made this awesome action movie with a budget of less than 6 thousand dollars! They sure know how to use money! This movie is really cheesy at times but you gotta give the producers credit for their efforts. Some cheesy effects are like the animated gore (only when someone gets shot) since they didn't have blood squibs. Most other times the blood is an actual liquid substance so it looks real. There's one scene where Lara throws a stereo set into the air and instead of landing a few feet away, it didn't land on screen! It looks like she threw it into space! I laughed at that one! Another con is that the action scenes are pretty short. There's no five-minute shoot outs in this movie, but that's okay. It's still great anyway. If Mr. Conway (the director) can make a 5,900 dollar film look so good, then his next film (with a budget of at least 30,000 dollars) is no doubt gonna look excellent! I've only seen the trailer of his next film but it looks great. I think it's safe for me to say, "If you think THE AWAKENING's very great, just wait until EXILE!"

Awakening shows us the creation of a villainess. Like many super hero flicks, our hero is in need and finds help, super radioactive help! But where typical glossed over Hollywood creations (Spiderman, Superman) forget about humans destructive nature, Awakening does not.

Our lead Lara, played brilliantly by Tamra Ericson Frame is stricken with cancer and yearns for the life she once had. When she is given the gift, the power goes to her head. She becomes destructive and begins to throw away the life she once longed for.

This is an interesting take. One which doesn't necessarily find the audience in Lara's corner, but I don't think it is suppose to. Maybe it is suppose to Awaken us to the idea of what we would really do with that power.

The flick has a brilliant score led at the hand of Director Mike Conway, a very talented jack of all trades filmmaker who seems to have the ability to accomplish anything.

It's a low budget indie, It's gritty, Its different, it's what indie film should be.

It's amazing what Mike and Kelly and Tamra and the rest were able to do on a microscopic budget. I've seen B movies that cost millions and aren't nearly as good. THE AWAKENING is tightly written, tightly plotted and tightly directed. But more important us that the principals really believed in the project. I've met them, and I know how much love and how much work went into this movie -- how Tamra slaved to make what would otherwise have seemed an unbelievable character come alive, how Kelly slaved at his computer with the SFX, from the cloning of soldiers to the boom box flying into the sky. I know how Mike slaved to film and edit the scenes, to create a blend of drama and humor, not to mention compose the music. All three of them, and the others who worked with them, were dedicated to their dreams, and to their love, and to what they could fashion from them.

Starring: Tamra Ericson Frame Directed: Mike Conway This movie deserves a distribution offer,And maybe with the NEW BIONIC WOMAN Tele-series,Who knows? We saw- Parts Kristanna Loken in T3 and Bionic Woman, It has a woman empowered after a cancer scare. With all the special effects ,You can't tell the budget.I still can't figure out the cars tipping, Seriously they were done with some impressive physical effects done on set.Then there is stuff in the extras,To show that wasn't many extras/actors ...But computer cloning ??? Tamra should be working in films or commercials a lot more,This was filmed in and around Vegas, Sooo maybe her day-job is special. Mike Conway contributed a lot to this production and it shows,Congrats sir.

It takes 60 seconds into this film to get a strong whiff of both the directing and acting on this one. As if the film wasn't bad enough, the bogus reviews add insult to injury. I appreciate a fan film as much as the next guy, but this would have been better left un-made. Believe the negative reviews both here and Amazon (where the film is featured). This is a stinker.