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Contra Conspiracy
Movie

Contra Conspiracy

1990 • Unknown

Woke Score
2
out of 10

Plot

When a Hollywood film crew set up shop in the Mojave Desert, they believed they were making the best action-adventure movie of the year. Little did the filmmakers know they would live it, too!

Overall Series Review

The movie is a low-budget 1990 action-adventure thriller about a Hollywood film crew in the Mojave Desert who become the targets of a ruthless group of government-sanctioned mercenaries. The conflict is a simple, high-stakes battle pitting the special effects and filmmaking equipment of the crew against the real bullets and bloodlust of the military psychos. The plot touches on a theme of political conspiracy, likely a reference to the Iran-Contra affair, but the core focus is action and survival.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics3/10

The film centers its conflict on a classic action-adventure trope of a civilian group battling a government-sanctioned military conspiracy. Characterization relies on action archetypes, not on race or intersectional hierarchy. The narrative does not lecture on privilege or systemic oppression based on immutable characteristics.

Oikophobia3/10

The primary antagonist is a 'maniacal Colonel' and his group of mercenaries, which serves as a critique of a specific corrupt element or conspiracy within the US government. This focus is on military and political malfeasance, not a wholesale condemnation of Western civilization, its ancestors, or its core institutions. The story does not frame Western culture as fundamentally corrupt.

Feminism2/10

The action is primarily driven by the survival of a mixed-gender film crew, which is an action film premise. There is no evidence of a 'Girl Boss' or 'Mary Sue' trope where female characters are instantly perfect or possess unearned superiority. The dynamic appears to be traditional for the 1990s action genre, lacking modern anti-natalist or anti-family messaging.

LGBTQ+1/10

The film’s premise is a straight action-conspiracy thriller about survival in the desert. The narrative does not center on alternative sexualities, deconstruct the nuclear family, or incorporate gender ideology. The themes of 'sex' present in the search results are typical of B-movie exploitation and do not align with the Queer Theory lens.

Anti-Theism1/10

The movie's focus is on real-world action, violence, and political/military conspiracy. The narrative is entirely absent of traditional religious themes, serving neither as a source of strength nor as a target for vilification. The film operates under a simple secular moral code of good versus immediate, tangible evil (the mercenaries).