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Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780788804410 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC ISBN: 0788804413 Label: Walt Disney Video Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Walt Disney Video Release Date: October 07, 1997 Running Time: 98 minutes Studio: Walt Disney Video Theatrical Release Date: September 01, 1995 Sales Rank: 19560
Amazon.com: A prime candidate for cult status (it even spawned a sequel), this apocalyptic 1995 horror flick belongs in the darker corners of the comedy-horror sub-genre that includes Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Mimic, and Phantoms--and like those movies it's a mixed blessing with some highlights worth savoring.
This one's got Christopher Walken in its favor, 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 favorites). 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, humor, 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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Prophecy
The package was received with the product inside.
This item was given out for Xmas, so I have NO real idea if the product works or not.
Rating: - A true classic
I haven't watched this in years. I love the story line.
When Gabriel (Christopher Walken) is on screen it's pure magic. I had forgotten Viggo Mortensen is in this film. This is long before his Lord of the Rings Fame.
The plot is after Lucifer and his angels were cast down a second war broke out in heaven lead by Gabriel. This war was due to some angels resenting humans being elevated above them. Gabriel refers to them as "Talking Monkeys".
Gabriel believes since humans are so much better at warfare if he can capture the darkest human soul that ever existed he can win the war against God.
Watch this one only. The others in the series are pretty bad.
Rating: - Disappointing
It's not a horrible movie, but after all the good things I heard about it, like it was one of Christopher Walken best movies, I can only be disappointed. So yeah, Mr Walken is great in this movie, but you only see him for about 20 minutes. The rest is just boring. I'm not the kind of person who needs explosions and special effects to be entertained, but there really is not much going on. The plot isn't deep and it's stretched over an hour and a half.
I wonder how that movie got three or four sequels. I heard the quality got worse every time... I'm glad I only got this one.
Well, if you want some great Walken, get the Kings of New York or the Deer Hunter
Rating: - 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.
Rating: - 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.
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