Rating: Summary: Heaven's war has returned to earth. Review: Think you would want to actually meet an angel? As this film points out, angels always had one wing dipped in blood. For whenever God needed a people, a city, a nation to be chastised- he sent angels to do the killing. The angels in this film, both in terms of quality of acting and special effects are very, very believable.Another thing that sets this film apart is it's theological and metaphysical sophistication. A very good case is made for a second war in heaven. This is because when God bestowed his Grace, his holy spark, unto humans, he raised them up above the angels. Some angels, like Gabriel, just couldn't stand being made second to "a bunch of talking monkeys." In this sequel, Gabriel returns to earth. This is due to the fact, as Lucifer states early in the film, Hell isn't big enough for both of them. However, this time instead of searching for the one perfect Dark Soul to turn the tide of the heavenly war, he is searching for the new Nephilim, a child of the union of angel and mortal, heaven and earth. Such a being would have the power of an angel combined with the free will and divine spark of a human. Oh yes, you also get more of the humerous" scenes of Gabriel intercepting the souls of suicides to serve as his helpers. In this case it is a goth girl named Iggy. I don't know why this should be so funny, but it is.... I couldn't think of an actor other than Christopher Walken who could have pulled off this role- who could believable be opposed to the forces of heaven and hell. You actually believe that he would burn down heaven to make his point.... All-in-all, I would say that this is one of those rare sequels that is as good as the original. My only complaint is with the sound levels. Much of the dialog is barely above a whisper. If you boost your sound loud enough to hear it clearly, then you get blasted out of the house by the action sequences.
Rating: Summary: Not as good as first but still entertainind. Review: This film is much more biblical than the first. We needed to see more Danzig. DANZIG RULES. I have a cat.
Rating: Summary: A cult movie part II. Review: This is a very good movie,but you must watch the first part to understand the whole plot. Walken's performance is amazing as always,but the rest of the cast is not that good.It's based on the bible(Genesis,chapter 6)about the origin of the nephilins,but with a free interpretation,full of fantasies.It's said the third part of this movie is in production...who knows what they will invent for the next film? So,watch Prophecy II,but don't forget to watch the first part.
Rating: Summary: Very Poor Review: This movie is a real downwer. The star attraction is the amazing christopher Walken, though there is very little Walken to be found. After the movie I thought, "Wheres the walken?", and "Is that all the walken you got?" and, "Theres more walken in a low fat muffin than there is in this movie!" The cast was terrible. The plot was disjionted. It was a religoes film but without any of the cool religoes imigry or dialog you get in other evil angel type movies. The lighting was terrible and the different factions of angels made things unreasonable confusing. The fighting scenes took place in a darkened ally and i was left wondering who was fighting who and who really won? The female lead is boring and unentertaining. There were references to "The Prophesy" however they had a different character playing the devil and the cop from the first movie wasn't given a chance to show his talents in the sequel. Don't waste your time with this movie. It got one star for having walken, and another star for the theme (the second war in heaven) It gets zero stars for how walken and the theme were used.
Rating: Summary: Very Poor Review: This movie is a real downwer. The star attraction is the amazing christopher Walken, though there is very little Walken to be found. After the movie I thought, "Wheres the walken?", and "Is that all the walken you got?" and, "Theres more walken in a low fat muffin than there is in this movie!" The cast was terrible. The plot was disjionted. It was a religoes film but without any of the cool religoes imigry or dialog you get in other evil angel type movies. The lighting was terrible and the different factions of angels made things unreasonable confusing. The fighting scenes took place in a darkened ally and i was left wondering who was fighting who and who really won? The female lead is boring and unentertaining. There were references to "The Prophesy" however they had a different character playing the devil and the cop from the first movie wasn't given a chance to show his talents in the sequel. Don't waste your time with this movie. It got one star for having walken, and another star for the theme (the second war in heaven) It gets zero stars for how walken and the theme were used.
Rating: Summary: John Hertzler makes this worth watching Review: This movie showcases the incredible flexibility and talent of the up and coming young actor, John Hertzler. He can be seen in Zorro, Deep Space Nine and a number of other first class productions.
Rating: Summary: Not enough Walken! Review: This movie was very unpleasant for me to watch for about 80% of the time. Not enough Chris Walken! Isn't it supposed to be HIS movie? Well, that's what we're told, but instead we are forced to gag through scenes of terrible performances from very, VERY unintelligent characters, and laughable special effects. Take, for example, the fact that most death scenes involve someone falling on, or through, what afterwards appears to be a bloody stake. I can imagine someone bringing a box full of them to the set, or, more reasonably 20 of them. And most of the characters were SO annoying, I WANTED Gabriel to kill them. The only saving grace of this patchy, incoherent movie is of course Walken, who is indeed the king of creepiness (and gorgeousness I might add), and who's brilliant performance could have saved the movie if he were in more of the scenes. Another good point is Brittany Murphy, who hardly says a thing, and hardly has a character, but still manages to give a better performance then most of the cast.
Rating: Summary: Not as good... Review: This movie would hve been better had it not tried so hard. The cast is nowhere as interesting as the cast from the first, and the re-casting of Thomas Daggit (I don't care how small the role was), really bothered me. It has, of course, Christopher Walken at his over-the-top best, but even that doesn't save this loosely-plotted movie. Worth at least one viewing, and then go and watch the first one again.
Rating: Summary: Amazingly horrible Review: This sequel makes the Revenge of the Nerds series seem well written. The Prophecy was an interesting film and one of the most interesting scenes was of course, the climax of the film. In the final scene, the devil eats the heart of Christopher Walken's character and drags him to hell. Let me repeat that, he eats his heart. So how in the hell (and pardon the pun) is it even remotely possible that Christopher Walken is back for the sequel? I expect this sort of "he was decapitated, but we froze his body and brought him back" plot twist from a Soap Opera, but come on Walken. What were you thinking?
Rating: Summary: El Lame'o Review: This thing reminds me of the third Highlander; it even had the requisite sex scene at the most cliched moment. The Prophecy was original enough to not even need a romantic relationship. Walken and the autopsy guy are in this, but the rest of the original cast isn't...including Viggo Mortensen's totally awesome Lucifer, now played by some second rate actor...actually, everyone else in this is second rate. They also overuse the cool ideas from the first like the perching, the kissing two fingers thing, Gabriel's "shoosh" with a finger under their nose, etc, so that it feels like a bad TV series adaptation. The dynamic range of the sound is really wanky too, probably the reason that Sci-Fi and Horror Academy liked it so much. Geeky horror guys always like really loud sfx compared to dialog. I had to force myself to watch the whole thing since I spent [money] to rent it. Prophecy III could only be more of the same. Wow, I just remembered something I liked: the gothy girl and Walken's dialog was kinda entertaining, but that's it.
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