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Summary: The Prophecy: Ripping Good Flick!
Review: Having now seen the Prophecy trilogy, it is fitting to review the first movie, which follows the story of warring angels sent to Earth. Simon (Eric Stoltz) is an angel on the good side sent to retrieve a bad soul from a human miltary man who committed horrible atrocities. He hides the soul from Gabriel (Christopher Walken), who is one of the more powerful angels of the bad faction and who want to destroy human beings out of jealousy. The soul is hidden in the body of a young Indian girl and a former Priest turned cop and schoolteacher are her allies. The film is an interesting and exciting take on the nature of angels. Their look is also unique with long black coats and perching positions. Not your average white robed angels with wings! The film is very well cast, with Christopher Walken a formidible Gabriel with a touch of humor. Elias Koteas is also good as the former priest who has lost his faith and regains it. This film is highly recommended for all suspense-horror fans!Nancy
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Summary: Walken from Heaven with a taste of Hell
Review: I am a die-hard Christopher Walken fan and this is by far the best movie of his career (the 2nd best being Prophecy 2). Sure this movie is about the battle between Heaven and Hell for the destiny of the entire human race, but who cares? It's Walken that matters. As the holy-turned-evil angel Gabriel he is extremely creepy and powerfully scary, but the awesome twist is that he is hilarious as well. Some actors have good scenes and some actors can steal certain scenes, but Walken is so twistedly diabolical and shockingly funny that he steals the entire movie. So much that you find yourself dying for the next scene to happen just so you can see more of him. I was very surprised at how Biblical the film is without being Biblical at all. It's very smart that way. Very spiritually exciting in an epic Biblical possibility kind of way. And the action sequences and effects are charged with power. This is truly a masterpiece and the best "Biblical-esque" science fiction action/horror film I have ever seen. GOD and the Devil and the End of the world. But who cares? It's all about Christopher Walken!
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Summary: excellent and thrilling.
Review: Excellent, intelligent movie. Christopher Walken was superb in this apocolyptic thriller. His charecter Gabriel chills the bones. Liked the way it showed Angels as things to be feared rather than fat babies or woman. Judgement is coming people!
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Summary: Yup :-)
Review: I'm speaking of the 3 movies I've seen in this series of movies, Christopher Walken is one of the best actors I have seen and this roll is his apex in my mind, totally funny + he gets weirder as the movies go along, the writers know what they are doing + christopher playes it perfectly + adds his amazing performance in a perfect roll for him. Top Rate!
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Summary: A movie of Biblical proportions,One of Walken's better roles
Review: Christopher Walken does movies that are either really forgetable, or incredible to the point that you find yourself thinking about the movie days after you've seen it. Well I'm glad to say that The Prophecy falls into the latter catagory. Walken plays archangel Gabriel, who is leading a revolt in heaven against god. A heavenly civil war, for lack of a better word. Gabriel is in search for the soul of a recently deceased General(since humans know more about the art of war, who better to help his side out?),the only problem is that an angel fighting against the revolt,Simon(excellent acting job by Eric Stoltz), has beat him to it and has hidden the soul inside of a young girl. So the battle begins. The Prophecy is one of those movies that was very well done but didn't make much of a showing in the theaters. The reason for this may have been lack of promotion, because everyone who I talked into seeing this movie loved it. If you are looking for a movie done in the style of the exorsist or the omen, give The Prophecy a try. Especially if you are a fan of either Christopher Walken or Eric Stoltz, this is a must buy.
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Summary: Not worth it
Review: As I watched the movie I couldn't help but feel that the director was just stabbing out at a few concepts, rather than character development and story line. 2 bad angels and 1 good, what kind of a war is going on here? Seems pretty week to me. How is one human soul going to help them in their great battle anyway? Is this war going to somehow change God's mind? Can these evil angels who are obviously acting against the the will of God, aka sinning really expecting to have things return back to the way they once were? What is the purpose of an angel, and even more important, What is the purpose and meaning of life for humans in this movie. What motive is there to be a good angel? There has to be some kind of reward. Why do we only get the perspective from the devil and evil angels? Where is the word of God during the movie, and what of his worshipers? Not worth your time or waste of thought.
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Summary: Very interesting and thought provoking film
Review: Throughout this decade I've watched some pretty horrible horror films. The only good films I could find were Candyman and Event Horizon. But then I came across The Prophecy, which is one of the best horror films of this decade. It's not frightening in your usual horror film sense, but has more of an intellectual feel to it. It's not an insult to your mind as most slasher films are. This film is full of intriguing thoughts and ideas, especially with writer-director Gregory Widen's version of how an angel's physical form on Earth would be like. The film starts off a bit confusing but becomes more easy to understand as the film goes along. There's the soon to become priest named Thomas Dagget, played very well by Elias Koteas who now has a high-profile due to his role in The Thin Red Line. You can also catch Koteas' role as a demon in Fallen in which he is even better at it than Christopher Walken! Anyway, Thomas sees visions of angels being killed, he loses his faith and becomes a cop. This might sound kind of funny on paper but watching it is pretty serious. A good angel named Simon (portrayed perfectly by Eric Stoltz) murders another angel, Usiel who is one of Gabriel's men, in self-defense. Autopsy reports show Usiel has the physical attributes of an aborted fetus, has no eyes and never did, and is a hermaphrodite. Thomas investigates on this case and discovers a bible on Usiel that has a 23 chapter of Revelations that states of the Second Coming, another war between angels. It states the war occurs because angels are jealous of the fact God loves humans more than angels because humans have souls. In order for this war to begin, the bad angels, led by Gabriel in an unforgettable performance by Christopher Walken, need the soul of a recently deceased Colonel Hawthorne, who is supposed to be the most evil person on Earth. Simon manages to steal Hawthorne's soul before Gabriel and places it in the body of a young girl named Mary. Thomas and Mary's teacher, Katherine (in a fine performance by Virginia Madsen) get caught up in this storm of events and must find a way to prevent the apocalypse from occuring. What I've just typed down about The Prophecy must be very confusing. It's actually a lot easier to understand then it seems. The acting in this film was very good. The lead performances by Koteas, Madsen, Walken, and Stoltz were excellent. I liked Stoltz's character the most but he left the movie too early. The overall plot idea was great and had an epic feeling. There was one particular scene where we see a vision of hundreds of angels impaled that I found very disturbing. It's one of the more haunting images on film these days. This film is also very humorous with most of the comedy supplied from Walken. There were a couple of things I didn't like too much about this movie. Why did Simon visit Thomas? That seemed more of an excuse to get Thomas even more involved in the war. The fact that this movie is very short. It left some interesting ideas or scenes that could have easily fit in. The ending, but it's a very minor problem, isn't as great as the rest of the movie. Without giving too much away I feel a downbeat ending like in The Exorcist and The Omen would have worked better in The Prophecy. After all, a prophecy is something you can't prevent. But the ending's somewhat made up for with Koteas' thought-provoking final words and the musical score. Some people may not like the fact that Gabriel is portrayed as a jealous celestial being. All in all, The Prophecy is a supernatural thriller that should not be missed if you enjoy movies like the Exorcist or if you're a fan of the cast. There is a sequel to The Prophecy and another one in the works, but I don't plan on watching them simply because I am mostly content with the way the first film ended.
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Summary: Heaven and Hell
Review: Christopher Walken is one of my favorite actors and this movie shows why. I bought the trilogy on dvd and I highly recommend you do the same, if you haven't already!
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Summary: he may learn to like us
Review: When is Walken less thn excellent?In this I expected little,but Walkens' character ,if that's the right word,makes this worth staying the way through.It's not good as the video he danced in(5),but I say try this ind call me when this unholy terror is settled.
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Summary: "Slow down, everybody's dead"
Review: This film starts with choir singers over the credits, which is quietly peaceful and then gets quietly irritating - setting the scene for the rest of the film. Eric Stoltz looks virtually unrecognisable from the previous role I've seen him in, in 'Mask' with Cher. I know he had a lot of makeup and prosthetics on during that film, but not even the eyes look familiar. Surprisingly enough, one of the ten rules of movies doesn't happen! The old cop says at the start of the film that he will be retiring in two years and three months, and that normally means he dies in his protégé's arms after a fatal shoot-out, but not this time. I was surprised. Christopher Walken is the only reason for watching this film, particularly if you're a fan. I'm not THAT big a fan (only seen him before in 'Sleepy Hollow' and 'Blast From The Past'), but alongside Jack Nicholson, that guy has the creepiest eyes ever! When he appears - with bad hair - the film seems to lift almost, and his presence alone makes the film watchable. If you're a 'Friends' fanatic, watch out for Adam Goldberg (playing Gabriel's sidekick, Gerry. He played Eddie, in the episode where Joey moved out and Chandler had to get a new roommate.) Certain parts remind me of certain films, particularly 'Sixth Sense' and 'Devil's Advocate'. Now if it had Keanu Reeves in it . . . One of the fight scenes is diabolical! You have to laugh watching it, it's very low key, and there's hardly any effort put into it, which is kind of bad. I could fight better than that, myself! I wasn't sure why this film was rated an 18, when I started watching it. The 'gory' bits are few & far between, but the worst it makes you do, is look away from the screen for barely a second - you want to see the gory bits. It could have got away with being rated a 15 maybe. I did expect this to be darker, and more of a gothic fantasy film. Reading the blurb at the back, I expected it to be based in heaven, or at least partially, but it wasn't. I'm left sitting on the fence with this film. I wouldn't say it was a great film, but I wouldn't say it's one of the worst films I've ever seen (that place is proudly taken by 'Lost Highway', and will remain there). It's a very strange concept for a film, definitely not one that's been thought of beforehand. I won't be watching the sequels, I think one was enough for me.
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