Great Film: god's army (the prophecy)
A very impressive and inventive film about angels
I first saw this film on TNT some months ago (and, of course, it was
edited for content) and my aunt got me this movie for Christmas. And as
with the television version, I was entertained.
"The Prophecy" is about the Archangel Gabriel (Christopher Walken) who,
believing that his Heavenly Master favors humans more than angels,
decides to start a war in Heaven. He goes in search of an evil soul to
carry out his dirty work, and Gabriel sets his sights on the spirit of
Colonel Hawthorne, a Korean War vet. Gabriel, accompanied by his human
lackey Jerry (Adam Goldberg), heads out to the Arizona desert where he
digs up Hawthorne's remains, only to find that his soul has been stolen
by Simon (Eric Stolz), another angel determined to stop the coming war.
Gabriel soon discovers that Simon has hidden Hawthorne's soul inside a
little girl named Mary (Moriah Snyder). Soon, it's up to police
detective Thomas Daggett (Elias Koteas) and schoolteacher Catherine
(Virginia Madsen) to stop Gabriel from obtaining Hawthorne's soul, and
things get a bit complicated when Lucifer (Viggo Mortensen) gets into
the mix.
I really enjoyed this film, mainly because of Walken and his enjoyably
off-kilter portrayal as a dark, evil version of the Archangel Gabriel,
who, in the Holy Bible, was one of the good guys. (I wonder what the
real Gabriel thinks!) In many ways, his performance is brilliant, yet
at times, dare I say, laughter-provoking even though it doesn't mean
to. All of the other performances by Elias Koteas, Virginia Madsen,
Adam Goldberg, and Eric Stolz are just plain fine (but not at all bad),
but Viggo Mortensen gives one of the most accurate on-screen portrayals
of the Prince of Darkness aside from Al Pacino in "The Devil's
Advocate." All in all, "The Prophecy" is an entertaining and sometimes
humorous apocalyptic thriller with an inventive (though what some very
conservative Christians would probably call "unholy") concept about
angels and God.
I give this film a 10 out of 10 on a scale of 1-10 in my humble
opinion.
Cast
- Jerry played by Adam Goldberg
- Lucifer played by Viggo Mortensen
- Gabriel played by Christopher Walken
- Thomas Daggett played by Elias Koteas
- Burrows played by J.c. Quinn
- Katherine Henley played by Virginia Madsen
- Simon played by Eric Stoltz
