Six: The Mark Unleashed
2004 film by Kevin Downes
Six: The Mark Unleashed is a 2004 Christian action-drama film directed by Kevin Downes and starring Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Downes, David A. R. White, Eric Roberts, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. It was released June 29, 2004, and debuted at #6 on the Christian Booksellers Association Best Sellers List.
Plot
The film is set in the end-times, or The Great Tribulation, after the rapture, when the earth has been taken over by the Antichrist (known as the "Leader"), and the mark of the beast - an implant in the right hands and/or foreheads - is being imposed on everyone worldwide. Those who take the mark become part of 'The Community', those who refuse are arrested, jailed and after three weeks are beheaded on the guillotines.
Two non-Christian renegades steal a car for a friend who has also refused the mark. When they arrive at his place they find that he reconsidered and took the mark and "feels so much happier". The two are then captured by police and taken to jail.
Smuggler Tom Newman is also captured by a police unit led by Jeseca Newman, his ex-wife who took the mark. He is tortured until he agrees to infiltrate a Christian group in the jail in order to execute Elijah Cohen, a Christian rebel leader who remains at large. Jeseca warns him if he tries to escape, he will be caught and turned over to Preston Scott, to be tortured.
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