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A movie of Biblical proportions,One of Walken's better roles
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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Positively Angelic
Of course, the movie turns the conventional wisdom on its head, since Angels are God's goon squad.

Need a few babies killed to make a point? Send in the Angels. Need a pair of cities razed, and a wife turned into a pillar of salt? The Angels can take care of that.

Not people you'd ever really like to meet, are they. Sure, there is the occasional nice angel, who still follows the will of God. Of course, he drops the soul of one of the most evil men around in a 10 year old to hide it. But he's nice. Honest.

Then there's Gabriel (Christopher Walken). He's on the naughty list.

Recovering souls for a war against God, that's angel work. But he always has to keep a trained monkey around for monkey work. Driving, digging up graves, that sort of thing.

And, somehow, God loves the monkeys more. It's enough to make you rebel.

While it's certainly not conventional theology, it does raise some interesting questions about the sorts of things you really don't think about.

I admit, some of it is fairly chilling. Gabriel bringing people back from Death, preventing them from meeting their Maker because he won't drive. That's cold.

But Horror? I wasn't that horrified. I just watched it and said, "Hmm."

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Not worth it
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.