Overview:
In Lincoln City, some inhabitants have extraordinary abilities. Most live below the poverty line, under the close surveillance of a heavily militarized police force. Connor, a construction worker with powers, involves with a criminal gang to help his ailing mother. (Based on the short film “Code 8,” 2016.)Status: | Released (2019-12-06) |
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Awards: | 1 nomination |
Screen: | Chris Pare, Jeff Chan |
Productions: | Colony Pictures, The Fyzz, Lane E Productions, XYZ Films, Blue Ice Pictures, Téléfilm Canada, Collective Pictures |
Production Countries: | Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America |
Spoken Languages: | English |
Casts
- 1223726: Robbie Amell - Connor Reed
- 76110: Stephen Amell - Garrett
- 5937: Kari Matchett - Mary Reed
- 2482346: Penny Eizenga - Receptionist
- 133921: Lawrence Bayne - Big Joe
- 1470382: Jai Jai Jones - Travis
- 1020687: Alex Mallari Jr. - Rainer
Crews
- 3040640: Lize van der Bijl - Third Assistant Director - Directing
- 1828346: Laura Menheere - VFX Artist - Visual Effects
- 3040651: Roberto Palomeque - Compositor - Crew
- 2530785: Ace McCallum - Third Assistant Director - Directing
- 3040642: Thomas Therrien - VFX Artist - Visual Effects
- 1830761: Miguel Basulto - Compositor - Crew
- 1437995: Allan Cooke - Special Effects Makeup Artist - Costume & Make-Up
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Reviews
Gimly
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I thought the trailer made _Code 8_ look like it was gonna be pretty bad, but I liked the premise, and I wanted to see what Stephen Amell could do in a 2019 feature film, so I gave it a chance, and while I don't think it was great, it was better than I had been expecting. There were ....
Continue reading ->Peter McGinn
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Code 8 never really grabbed me, though I managed to watch it all the way through. Perhaps I am an outlier viewer, but I would have liked to see more time spent on why society lowered the status of the super-powered people to practically second class citizens. To me that might have be ....
Continue reading ->CinemaSerf
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Robbie Amell is undoubtedly a good-looking man, but that really does not forgive the fact that as an actor, he is really dead behind the eyes. The concept here is quite interesting - ordinary people have superpowers and are all still pretty much persecuted by the authorities. Amell i ....
Continue reading ->tmdb28039023
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Code 8 is X-Men minus the budget and the A-list cast, and that's the good news. Unfortunately, the movie suffers more, not when it deviates from, but when it copies Marvel's mutants. Code 8 is set in a world where 4% of the population are born with various supernatural abilities, but ....
Continue reading ->Chandler Danier
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Good use of budget. Interesting enough. Good ideas. I watched it because I thought I had to because Code 8 part two was out as well. I probably wouldn't have watched it without that. I'm glad I watched it.
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