hyped garbage

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

I watched Megiddo. It was brilliant! Awesome scenes, especially the battle at the end and when Jesus returns and Satan calls out, "Nazerene, you are Lord"! Oh yes. It is worth the fee to but or rent, yet it probably is not as amazing in comparison in what Jesus has in store for that day when that God has sends him. I encourage all who want to try to explain the book of Revalation to anyone, especially loved ones, to use this powerful tool. The film makers also took a little liberty with parts like when Stone's wife is in Mexico and the old woman dies in her arms. It seemed that the antichrist caused it, but Jesus concerned death hell and the grave, so I encourage you who do see this to be prepared to expect a little bit of this kind of thing throughout the movie and remember, it's just man's attempt to translate the tribulation onto film That's a tough task for even the best.

I admit, I have a strange fondness for bad movies. Movies that are enjoyably bad, or movies that really aren't as bad as the critics/public insisted, though they're certainly not good.However, there are some movies so irredeemably, stupefyingly, unimaginably bad that they don't even have the semi-out of being funny. "Megiddo" is one such movie.I sat through it because I was bored and it was an exceedingly dismal night for TV. And even though I didn't pay to see it, I still want my money back. What a turkey.The plot, if you can call it that, is a mishmash of rah-rah super-patriotism, shockingly blatant racism and xenophobia, paranoia, pseudo-Biblical gibberish, "Omen" ripoffs, "X-Files" ripoffs, "Exorcist" ripoffs, a pitiful love triangle, hideous acting, even more hideous dialog, and cut-rate special effects that offer a silly Satan who's about as frightening as a pair of bunny slippers -- as well as being shockingly stupid. I guess I'm just used to the idea of the devil being brilliant, but still...you'd think that old Scratch would at least be clever enough to deduce that one of his "allies," reluctant to start with, is going to back-stab him.All this talk about Beelzebub, and no mention of the actor who plays him. It's Michael York, hammier than a pig farm. Many an actor has said that they prefer to play villains, as they're more fun than heroes, so you'd think that York would be having a blast playing the ultimate villain. However, his performance seems to strain him as much as it does the audience. Just like his computer-animated counterpart, who shows up at the very end, he isn't scary. He's just peevish and annoying.Poor Michael Biehn (who hasn't aged well at all -- he used to be so cute) is stuck playing the good guy, York's "brother." I use quotes because I think that that the devil actually inhabits York's character when he's a child and uses him as a puppet, though I'm not sure...the movie is muddy on this point, as on so many others. Anyway, Biehn's performance mainly consists of looking constipated, barking out painfully stupid dialog, and clenching his jaw...perhaps to keep from dissolving into gales of laughter at the sheer absurdity of all that is going on around him. I suppose it is to his credit that he doesn't, in fact, collapse in hilarity; he must take his craft seriously, even when applying it to something this appalling.

This movie could have been written by Paul Wolfowitz and Karl Rove, prepping the good citizens of the USA to embrace an anti-UN UN ambassador, inspiring GW to incite Armageddon in the Middle east, and setting forth the idea that the EU (as well as the UN) are evil empires controlled by Satan himself.Despite some impressive animation, the stunts are pure cheese, with soldiers turning somersaults like lame circus acrobats, and big messy "battle" scenes with zero thrills and absolutely no emotional resonance.Michael Biehn should go crawling back to Jim Cameron for a role to wash this one away. And Udo Kier will probably go straight to hell for this one. How sad that so many great and lovable actors sold their souls to the god of Mammon.Over all, a few steps down from "Leprechaun 4."

Megiddo belongs to the ranks of flicks which I have not seen in their entirety, but rather have caught the later parts of, thanks to cable and late hours. While in light of that I admit being unable to give this movie a proper review, I think it is fair to compare it to other movies I've seen under similar circumstances. Since we're dealing with a piece of Christian-spirit-inspired schlock, I'll use 'Santa Claus Conquers the Martians'. While 'Megiddo' seems more plausible on the surface, if only because the majority of its characters don't contradict established facts, it's reality suffers drastically from abominable characterization. 'SCCtM' on the otherhand doesn't even try to mimic realism, and thus achieves a solid consistency of inaneness. It's similar to comparing the live action 'Batman' TV show to the movie 'Batman & Robin'. Both are atrocious, but the show, and 'SCCtM', were done with love, which is what ultimately makes them the better projects. it should be kept in mind of course that none of these deserves a rating above 2