Rating: 
Summary: A mixed bag, but interesting
Review: While certainly not a movie for those with ADD (who will be bored to tears with the bad editing and pacing), this literati thriller is fairly decent. I expected more of Terence Stamp's acting, but overall the film was well cast.The film is in the vein of the literary thriller, like the Ninth Gate, or the recent book The Da Vinci Code, and combines the conspiracies of the Knights Templars (the Illuminati in this movie), Second Coming, and the Jesus & Mary Magdaline marriage. Our heroes are the ex-con son of Terence Stamp's character and an alchemist that Stamp brings in to study an artifact with other experts. They slowly unveil the possible meanings of the artifact, which in turn leads to many deaths. Throughout we are taken on a whirlwind tour of Europe's lesser known religious shrines in the quest to rediscover the artifact and learn of the conspiracy surrounding it. The movie culiminates in the birth of the Antichrist and the beginning of the End Days. All in all, I found this movie to be interesting, but it was very flawed. The editing was shoddy, but the story and most of the acting was solid. If you're into conspiracies, alternative religion, alchemy, weird science, and intrigue, you may also like it.
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