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Christopher Walken (Actor), Elias Koteas (Actor), Gregory Widen (Director) Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Christopher Walken, Elias Koteas, Virginia Madsen, Eric Stoltz, Viggo Mortensen
  • Directors: Gregory Widen
  • Producers: Joel Soisson
  • Format: PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: Unknown
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Lions Gate Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 25 April 2011
  • Run Time: 94 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B004WJRV3O
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 27,596 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Terrorised by horrific dreams, Thomas Daggett (Elias Koteas) leaves his church on the eve of his ordination as a priest. Working as a homicide detective years later, Daggett is assigned a grisly murder case with religious overtones. It transpires that the dead man's soul is in danger of falling into the hands of the human-hating angel Gabriel (Christopher Walken) - who is embarking on a war to wrest the kingdom of Heaven from God - and Daggett is the only man on Earth who can stop him.

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A prime candidate for cult status (it even spawned a sequel), The Prophecy is a 1995 apocalyptic horror flick that belongs in the darker corners of the comedy-horror sub genre alongside Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Mimic and Phantoms--and like those movies it's a mixed blessing with some highlights worth savouring.

This one's got Christopher Walken in its favour, starring as the Angel Gabriel, who's really mad at God for allowing humans into heaven (because, you see, humans have souls and angels don't, and God plays favourites). Gabriel takes his anger out on the human race, coming to Earth to capture the soul of the most evil human alive in an effort to defeat the "good" angels that remain in God's good graces. One of the good angels is played by Eric Stoltz, who captures the evil soul before Walken does and transfers it into the body of a little girl.

Are you with us so far? Don't worry if you're not, because writer-director Gregory Widen filled The Prophecy with so many wild ideas that he didn't bother to connect them to a coherent plot. Add Viggo Mortensen as the devil and Elias Koteas as a priest-turned detective who's tracking Walken and it's clear that Widen was attempting something ambitious here. He nearly succeeded, since The Prophecy jumpstarts its heaven-and-hell rivalry with enough action, humour, and intelligence to make the movie sufficiently entertaining. It was enjoyable enough to entice Walken back for the sequel, so if you're into this kind of thing, this one's a keeper. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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4.0 out of 5 starsThe 23rd chapter of the St John's revelations........
By Spike Owen TOP 500 REVIEWER on 30 Aug. 2011
Format: DVD
The 23rd chapter of the St John's revelations........

.......and there rose a second war in heaven.

Gabriel is a rogue angel intent on capturing the black soul of a recently deceased war criminal general. Standing in his way is the good angel Simon, who hides the soul in a child, a couple of honest citizens, and Lucifer himself, who has his own vested interest in proceedings.

Largely ignored on release, and badly marketed as a horror film, The Prophecy, in this day and age of torture porn and slasher overkill, is crying out to be seen more by a jaded horror audience. For it be a film that has an interesting theological heart, that matches its daring and deeply provocative ideas. Here is a film that adds another chapter to the bible, the result being a battle for a soul on Earth that will have major repercussions for both heaven and hell. Gabriel (Christopher Walken) is even (poignantly some might say) using would-be-suicides as his unwilling helpers, their paths to peace blocked by Gabriel in his cunningly crafted intentions-yes this is pretty tight stuff indeed.

Flecked with the odd bit of humour (zip code wise cracks for heaven and hell), Gregory Widen's film perhaps is guilty of not fully realising end of the world promise. But this is a minor itch come the finale, because really the picture should be judged as one complete and intelligent whole. Cast wise you will search in vain for a weak link, because there simply isn't one. Walken is suitably gargoyle like, slick black hair and pasty faced, he induces fear whilst simultaneously charming the beejesus out of the humans, re: talking monkeys.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsThe Prophecy does not disappoint
By Daniel Jolley HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWER on 28 Nov. 2002
Format: VHS Tape
Just before The Prophecy was released, there was a lot of excitement about it in certain circles I was a part of. That excessive hype led to my initial disappointment with the movie. Over time, though, as I have watched it over again a time or two, my appreciation of the film has grown. Biblical prophecy and apocalyptic discourses are fascinating to me, and this movie plays off of some of the more far-fetched ideas in the realm of speculation. As the movie opens, we see Thomas Daggett lose his faith in God at the very moment in which he was to be confirmed as a priest; his loss of faith is interestingly a result of having been shown too much of heaven rather than too little. The movie then jumps to the present, where Daggett is a police detective investigating the death of a man-like enigma with no eyes and fetus-like cell structure. We have already seen how this being attacked the angel Simon and lost the fight. The injuries Simon sustains in the struggle upsets his plans, plans which consist of retrieving the soul of the recently deceased most evil man on earth before "the enemy" seizes that soul for their continuing nefarious purposes. Before Simon dies, he gives the soul to a young Indian girl named Mary, and the plot revolves around the enemy's attempts to retrieve the black soul from her and the efforts of Daggett, Mary's teacher, and a medicine man to release the black soul from within Mary's body. The enemy, as Daggett learns by translating a Bible found on the body of the initial victim, is none other than the archangel Gabriel. An unknown 23rd chapter of Revelation in the ancient Bible describes a second war going on in heaven, a war led by the archangel Gabriel who refuses to bow down to the "monkeys" of humanity whom God gave souls and thus elevated above even the angels.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsHEAVEN ISN'T HEAVEN ANYMORE
By The Movie Guy TOP 500 REVIEWER on 1 Mar. 2014
Format: DVD
The film opens as angel expert, near priest Thomas (Elias Koteas) has visions and leaves the seminary to become a policeman, one that investigates strange killings done by angels. There is a "second war" in heaven that wasn't described in detail enough in the Bible, so the film made up an extra chapter for the Revelation of John. The script smartly confounds the roles of the angels as simply good and evil as both sides take on duel characteristics. Christopher Walken plays Gabriel in a rather creepy manner while Viggo Mortensen plays a charismatic Lucifer. Good script. Good performances.

On a side note, Revelation was designed to have 22 chapters with each chapter representing a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Lucifer was the Roman "Light Bringer" a title given to Ishtar in the role of Venus the morning star who brought the light of the sun. Venus was the "rebellious" archangel of lore who remained shining while all the other planets were no longer visible. Jerome anachronistically translated "The Light Bringer" in Isiah as Lucifer and it has stuck with us ever since.

Parental Guide: F-bomb. No sex. Magazine nudity?
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4.0 out of 5 starsFun with theology
By Trevor Willsmer HALL OF FAMETOP 50 REVIEWER on 27 Aug. 2006
Format: DVD
Heaven's been closed for the past two thousand years because of a war between the angels, with Christopher Walken's Archangel Gabriel leading those eager to do away with the talking monkeys who have supplanted them in God's affections, and now the War in Heaven has spilled out onto Earth. These angels aren't the benign, mournfully watchful figures of Wings of Desire or City of Angels, let alone the make-a-wish do-gooders of Touched by an Angel. These are God's hitmen, creatures that spend their whole existence praising God with one wing dipped in blood. They don't grant wishes, they don't make things better and you really, REALLY wouldn't want to see one. But, experienced as they are in laying waste to whole nations, they lack man's capacity for true evil and need to find the darkest human soul to show them the way to win. Viggo Mortensen's Lucifer isn't too keen on the situation, fearing a victory for Gabriel's side will result in Heaven becoming another Hell - and two Hells is one Hell too many for him. Stuck in the middle is Elias Koteas' priest-turned-cop, who lost his faith not because Heaven showed him too little but because it showed him too much.

The similarities to writer-director Gregory Widen's Highlander screenplay are apparent, although this boasts a much lower budget but infinitely superior direction, a good visual sense and some great locations. Much of the film's strength is in its ideas and its dialogue: the plotting is at times perfunctory, Virginia Madsen's schoolteacher takes little convincing of the Angelic threat and Walken probably has a little TOO much fun as Gabe, whether letting schoolchildren blow his horn or gleefully explaining "I'm an angel. I kill firstborns while their mamas watch. I turn cities into salt.Read more ›
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