The Prophecy

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Starring: Christopher Walken
Rated: R (Restricted)
Type: DVD
Directed By: Gregory Widen
Studio: Dimension
Release Date: 1999-02-09
Big-screen favorite Christopher Walken (PULP FICTION, BATMAN RETURNS) heads an all-star cast in this chilling and suspenseful thriller! At the scene of a bizarre murder, L.A. homicide detective Thomas Dagget (Elias Koteas -- EXOTICA) discovers a lethal heavenly prophecy now being fulfilled on earth! Yet in his fight to stop the forces of evil -- led by the powerful angel Gabriel (Walken) -- Dagget finds an unlikely ally in an elementary school teacher (Virginia Madsen -- CANDYMAN). Together they race against time and terror to save the world as we know it! Also starring Eric Stoltz (PULP FICTION) -- critics everywhere praised THE PROPHECY for its high-powered thrills and knockout performances -- don't miss it!

Who Says An Angel Has To Love Mankind
I bought this a couple of months ago and finally bought the last two to complete my collection of this great storyline saga. The story is an excellent concept I think a lot of people are taught to believe that angels are created to love and protect mankind but could jealousy and anger ever cause an angel to rebel against these doctrines. That is pretty much what you have here the arch-angel Gabriel dissatisfied that God has put mankind before angels has decided to rebel against the other angels who are still loyal to the doctrines. Gabriel now comes to earth to capture a dark soul to help him with his battle in Heaven but some of the loyal angels are also on earth and are trying to stop this plan. The actors for this movie were incredible Christopher Walken as Gabriel was the perfect choice and Eric Stoltz played as a great angel who seemed tired of both fighting his fellow brothers and the war in Heaven. The story technically ends in the third movie where you finally see what God was truly trying to do but the first movie again is great if you just want to get this one.

Two Hells ain't gonna fly with Satan!
The Archangel Gabriel (Christopher Walken, The Deer Hunter) is dissatisfied with his lot so he elects to forsake God and branch out on his own, gathering up a few evil souls from people for whom Heaven was likely not an option. One mean old U.S. Army Colonel who once perpetrated a genocide seems a good starting point.

A good angel (one of God's army) is out to stop the traitorous Gabriel but he's not quite personally up to the task. Still, he manages to indirectly recruit a cop who was once up for Catholic Priest ordination until he lost his faith following a vision of the ongoing war between the good and bad angels. And the cop is aided by a small town lady school teacher who doesn't quite understand the entire picture but stays in the game to heal a Native American Indian student who has, through a comedy of errors, become an unwilling repository for all the old Colonel's evil souls.

Gabriel goes on the hunt but, as an angel, he comes up short in one department: he can't drive a car! So he has to enlist the aid of loser humans (attempted suicides, etc.) to chauffer him from place to place.

Gabriel draws closer and closer to his goal but, sometimes, war makes for strange bedfellows and the old line, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend," comes to fruition here. In other words, a new player, Satan (Viggo Mortensen, The Lord Of The Rings - The Motion Picture Trilogy (Widescreen Edition)), does not savor nor is he much tolerant of the idea of two Hells!

Both Walken and Mortensen are superb in this supernaturally religious mobile exorcism. I'm usually not a fan of new age films but here, First Look Pictures, Neo Motion Pictures, and Dimension Films produced a definite winner. This 1995 movie was written and directed by Gregory Widen.

The additional casting is terrific and the color cinematography is first-class. The aspect ratio is 2.35:1 (letterbox), the running time is 97 minutes, and the music was composed by David C. Williams. This film is rated R and is close captioned.

I was reminded of a couple of other good similar-type movies as I watched "The Prophecy":

Warlock

The Village (Widescreen Vista Series)


If I have a problem at all with this movie it's that the story is a little complex. You'll enjoy it a lot more on the second viewing. And if you're a big fan of this film genre, go ahead and count this review as a five-star one.

Highly recommended to appropriate audiences.

Entertaining quasi-religious movie
Walken and Viggo pull out awesome characters in this semi-religious film about angels at war with each other. Low-key special effects make us focus more on performances, which is a good thing I think. I am a sucker for religious films like this an Constantine (which I think is a slightly better film).
Over all I think they did a decent job here creating a decent story with some great actors...making an all around entertaining movie.

"Ohhhh, Gabriel don't you blow, Gabriel don't you blow..."
"Jeezus H. Christ, people! Christopher Walken as a vengeful, none-to-happy Archangel?! Nuff said....Oh, and the dude from 'Killing Zoe' also rocks." PILATE: A Brutal Bible Tale

Why not ask God? Because, He doesn't talk to me any more
Thomas Daggett (Elias Koteas) is about to be ordained minister, but he suddenly has problems and receives terrifying visions. He ponders that most turn away from religion because they receive too little knowledge, but he turned away because he received too much.

Years later, he has become a police officer, and after working one day he returns home to see a long-haired Eric Stoltz standing on the back of a chair in his apartment. If that doesn't scare you into religion, nothing will. Well, Simon (Stoltz) mentions that he saw the same visions as Thomas, ostensibly to prove some sort of transcendent connection.

Stoltz, an angel who gathers the souls of recently deceased, returns to his apartment, registered under an alias, where he is attacked by an evil, hermaphrodite angel. We know this second guy is evil because the new guy has obsidian black eyes, and dies quicker than ensign Johnson on a Star Trek away mission. Upon his death, he just so happens to be carrying a Bible with the 23rd Chapter of St. Johns Revelations, which doesn't exist on earth. It is within the bible that Daggett learns that there is a heaven-and-hell battle between angels. Some of the angels, namely Gabriel (Christopher Walken) are upset that God has allowed humans into heaven. The recent death of the most evil man on the planet provides the ultimate weapon in that battle, and it's a search for his soul - a soul that Simon has taken and hidden inside a little girl.

In the end there is just a little bit too much going on, and the people are way too composed considering they are in the midst of the angel battle, zombie slaves of Gabriel, evil souls being exorcised, winged angels flying over head, and the Devil audibly conversing with people on an Indian Reservation. Walken's great, but the rest of the movie is only slightly above average, and the plot seems to be just a bit too involved and far-fetched.