Neoavanctus 5
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| Neoavanctus 5 | |
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| Directed by | John Sacker |
| Produced by | John Sacker |
| Written by | John Sacker |
| Starring | John Sacker Wu Xiaofeng Mike Sacker Nathan Waterson Brian Wales Kimberley Wong David Tramson Timothy Brown |
| Distributed by | Corax Studios |
Release date | 12 July 2015 |
Running time | 148 minutes |
| Country | Samera |
| Language | English |
Neoavanctus 5 is an Sameran animated science fiction film directed and produced by John Sacker. The fifth installment in the Neoavanctus franchise and the sequel to Neoavanctus 4 (2010).
Plot
The film starts off in Westwood Labs. Dr.Marc was doing an experiment on lab rats. Then all of a sudden he had a skype call from an unknown user and he decides to accept it. The caller identifies himself to be Pierton's son and that he was mad and wanted revenge as Jacob killed his father a year ago, He warned Dr.Marc that he and his friends will pay for what they did and the skype call hangs up and the person had blocked Dr.Marc on Skype. The next day Alan and Natalie comes to the lab and Dr.Marc had explained that yesterday he received a weird skype call from someone claiming to be Pierton's son. The two proposed ideas of building protection systems similar to the Iron Dome in Israel and Dr.Marc had apparently decided that the protection system should be less harmful and then decided to give them a mission to go to Israel the next week. Tim, Nick and Jacob was gaven a mission by Dr.Marc to go accompany the two teens going to Israel. Natalie decides to bring her brother as her mom is out of town for the week. 1 week later the group went to Sydney Airport and boarded an Qantas plane from Sydney to Tel Aviv (via Bangkok). The plane arrives in Tel Aviv the next day and Tim hails a taxi and stays at a hotel in Tel Aviv. Their plans were to go to the kibbutz of Yizre'el which is a few kilometres from the city of Afula in Israel to meet a scientist who specializes in the Iron Dome technology as he works for the government. Natalie, her boyfriend and her brother decides to explore the city of Tel Aviv for the day. The next day Dr.Avraham comes to pick the group up at the hotel and drove 1 hour to Afula. At Dr.Avraham's kibbutz home he offers the guest tea and then takes the guests into his lab which is underground. Alan is fascinated by how a kibbutz home is able to have underground laboratory unlike his family home in Australia. His lab has 5 researchers and 2 is of Israeli origin while 3 are arab and 1 of them is from Syria. The Syrian researcher is named Muhammad and greets the guest. Dr.Avraham then talks to Natalie and Alan about the project that they were interested in and while they were talking Muhammad goes into the bathroom and accepts a call from Mosul, Iraq. Nick was suspicious of his actions so he decided to secretly go to the bathroom and record (willing to translate his arabic to english via an app). Mohammad spoke in Arabic but however the caller is from Iraq. Muhammad notices that Nick is outside the bathroom door but does not do anything and pretends that nothing has happened. The person Mohammad accepted a call from who was in Iraq was identified to be Abu Mohammad al-Baghdadi, a man who was links to ISIS and links to the son of Pierton. Nick then translates the call and was shocked to know the results. However shortly Nick was then kidnapped but the recording was sent to Dr.Marcs skype. Dr.Marc then retranslates again and discovered that the Arab personnel at Dr.Avrahams lab has connections to someone in Iraq. He then sends Tim a skype message. Tim was shocked to know and asked Dr.Avraham about this and Dr.Avraham never knew that Mohammad had ISIS links. When he was about to check on Mohammad he realizes that he was gone. Dr.Avraham then gives him the blueprints and stuff as his lab was going into an emergency. Tim realizes that Nick was gone and then decided to alert the local police. The group then goes to Haifa and Jerusalem and then the Dead sea. Tim then gave Dr.Marc the blueprints needed for the technology in Skype and then Dr.Marc decides to start operation. 1 day later Tim was called by the Israeli Police and they let him know that Nick is being held captive in Iraq. The group then decides to cross the Jordanian border into the city of Amman and then Tim decides to drive to Iraq by himself and leaving Alan, Natalie, his brother and Jacob at the hotel and the 4 decided to visit Petra and Natalie goes on a date with Alan in Jordan. Tim then drives to Mosul and Dr.Marc gave him tracking location of Nick in Mosul and Tim drives there. He found the compound and breaks into the compound killing ISIS terrorist and freed Nick. Nick tells them that they have connections to Pierton's son and that they were building a robot to attack the lab in Sydney. The robots were being built in Hong Kong and Seoul and what they needed to do is go to Hong Kong and Seoul to stop them. The 2 sides now have to go seperate ways. Jacob, Alan, Natalie and Ryan now have to go to Hong Kong and Seoul as it is safer there while Tim and Nick goes to Sydney to fend off the robots. The following day Jacob, Alan, Natalie and Ryan arrived in Hong Kong on a Cathay Pacific flight and rode the MTR to their hotels. Then Tim and Nick arrives back in Sydney and quickly goes to the lab. However it was too late as the Robots were on their ways and now the robots have reached Sydney and then decides to raid the lab. The lab went into a full breach and what happened is that Level 2 robots are killing some of Westwood researchers. Jacob, Alan, Natalie and Ryan had just destroyed the last lab in Kowloon and then heads off to Seoul boarding an Korean Air plane going to the next labs. It was believed that Pierton's son was in Seoul. The group got to fight off the scientists in labs in Seoul, Taejon and Busan but however Pierton's son was no where to be found. However Pierton's son IP was then leaked and he was apparently in North Korea and so Jacob decided to risk his life for this one. Jacob snuck over the korean DMZ by himself and made his way to Pyongyang. He then makes his way to his underground lab and then robots were released on him. Jacob dismantled the robots and then gave his PC a malware making all robots fail and then Pierton's son was then killed by Jacob and now Jacob needs to escape North Korea before the police comes. He then illegally boards a train to Dandong, China and boarded a flight from Beijing to Seoul. He then gets Natalie and her brother along with Alan back to Sydney and the lab had to be moved to somewhere else.
Voice cast
- John Sacker as Tim and Dr.Avraham
- Wu Xiaofeng as Nick
- Mike Sacker as Jacob
- Timothy Brown as Mr.Pierton son, Robots, Mohammad, Abu Mohammad al-Baghdadi and ISIS terrorists
- Nathan Waterson as Alan, Hong Kong scientists and Korean scientists.
- Kimberley Wong as Natalie
- Brian Wales as Dr.Marc, Researchers
- David Tramson as Ryan
Production
Development
Production for the film began in June 2011 and was bound for a 2012 release date. The film was announced on October 30 2011. However due to production issues and John Sacker running for local elections in 2012, the film was then delayed and left unfinished. It wasn't until June 2014 when production resumed and it was announced that the film will come out by 2015 and the team will be going on a research trip to Israel for the ideas. The film was animated in Adobe Flash CS6 and Garry's Mod. For a long time there was a rumor that the film was canceled until 2015. The teaser was released on 10 January 2015. This was the last Neoavanctus film to come out on DVD. The graphics of the film was updated to make it look more modern as shadows were improved from the first 4 films.
Reception
The film had reached 2,500 views on YouTube which was higher than the previous film. The film was considered a good film but in a medium level by alot of people. However this film did gather a bit of controversy because this was the first Samera film to include acts of terror which ISIS was mentioned in the film and there was an on-going Syrian Civil War at the time.
Sequel
Neoavanctus 6 was released on 6 November 2020, In the film, Nick and Tim is replaced by Natalie and Alan to seize an nuclear weapon from level 3 robots as Nick and Tim is in an coma.