The Humanity Bureau

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The Humanity Bureau

R

2018

1h 35m

Sci-Fi

Action

Mystery & Thriller

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In the near future, global warming turns parts of the American Midwest into a desert. In its attempt to take hold of the economic recession, a government agency called The Humanity Bureau exiles members of society deemed unproductive and banishes them to a colony known as New Eden. An ambitious and impartial caseworker Noah Kross investigates a case appealed by a single mother and her son. Knowing the unjust fate of the innocent boy, Kross sets off to save the lives of the mother and child.

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Simon Abrams

RogerEbert.com

04/06/2018

1/4

Oh, The Humanity Bureau!

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Dennis Harvey

Variety

04/05/2018

Director Rob W. King and screenwriter Dave Schultz's engaging effort has enough standard genre elements to satisfy more open-minded sci-fi fans, and its political-allegory angle is ultimately quite potent without becoming too heavy-handed.

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Sean McGeady

Radio Times

Mar 21

2/5

Director Rob W King makes no effort to swerve the tropes of the post-apocalyptic road movie, instead crashing head-on into cliché at every turn.

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Pat Padua

Spectrum Culture

08/28/2018

1.5/5

This is the fate of Nicolas Cage, doomed to wander the planet in a seemingly endless cinematic purgatory, and The Humanity Bureau is his latest descent into subgenre mediocrity.

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Ryan Pollard

Starburst

06/27/2018

5/10

The main problem... is that The Humanity Bureau is not special enough to have long legs in the future, and arguably certain plot elements and concepts have been better executed in various other movies before it.

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Jacob Knight

Birth.Movies.Death.

06/20/2018

It's not often you see a piece of Redbox ready pulp actively attempting to double as a protest film. There's value in that, even if its packaged as dumbass schlock.

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Ken B

@DeepStateSocialist Jan 1

MAGA paranoia. Nick Cage, is one of the hardest working actors ever because he will tank ANY role. In this movie climate change has caused Western civilization to collapse into NewMerica where the unproductive and starving are sent to New Eden, where they won't be served apples. Nick's job is to audit people's receipts then send them off to their eternal rewards, until a pretty woman and her son in a farmhouse, give him pause to reconsider. After seeing her son the next day at a school recital singing amazing Grace in front of a giant American flag, then pledging Allegiance to the flag, the auditor from the Humanity Bureau has a change of heart! Later he woo's her with coffee that cost more than a house and she doesn't know how to make, while his evil boss lurks around the property. Next morning the deep State arrive, Nick has one of his funny fight scenes, the kids shoots the evil boss's eye with a BB gun, and the fugitives speed off in Nick's El Camino. You can guess the rest...

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daniel m

Sep 12

utter rubbish, everything is cheap and nasty, don't waste your time

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JW R

Jun 14

Purty good, good plot. Mediocre acting but cage was good.

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nick s

@Nick_S 01/12/2025

A lot of ideas felt derivative of other sci fi movies. It was obvious early on where the story was headed. Some of the support actors were pretty average, giving it a real hometown Indie vibe. World building was barely existent. Overall quite a dud. But to be fair nothing wrong with Cage.

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Liam D

@Mediawatcher2003 12/05/2024

Featuring an surprisingly sleepy Nicolas Cage (Brubaker, Guarding Tess) this is an science fiction thriller that isn’t imaginative or suspenseful but it’s not unwatchable

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A Teacher W

07/02/2024

Way underrated. If you liked Equilibrium or 2012's Total Recall, you will watch this.

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In the near future, global warming turns parts of the American Midwest into a desert. In its attempt to take hold of the economic recession, a government agency called The Humanity Bureau exiles members of society deemed unproductive and banishes them to a colony known as New Eden. An ambitious and impartial caseworker Noah Kross investigates a case appealed by a single mother and her son. Knowing the unjust fate of the innocent boy, Kross sets off to save the lives of the mother and child.

Director: Rob W. King
Producer: Kevin DeWalt, Danielle Masters, Kelly-Rae Buchan
Screenwriter: Dave Schultz
Distributor: Minds Eye International
Production Co: Minds Eye Entertainment, Bridgegate Pictures
Rating: R (Violence)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 6, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 10, 2018
Runtime: 1h 35m

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