disgusting, overrated, pointless

Absolutely amazing

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

This is clearly a dreadful movie, but it's still difficult for me to rate, since I think it's a contender for So-Bad-It's-Good status. It's a last-judgment-end-of-days-prophecies supernatural horror thriller, and it had a pretty decent budget, enough to hire a few name actors and to film on location in Italy and Israel (as well as the U.S.) Even so, the special effects are amusingly crude for 1999; there's no suspense, since the ultimate battle between Evil and Good comes off a bit like "Bambi meets Godzilla"; and it suffers from the prophecy movie problem that none of main characters' actions seem to have any effect whatsoever on the outcome. But what's wonderfully awful about this film is the way the non-supernatural events are vastly more implausible than the supernatural ones: that is, it's possible to suspend one's disbelief when viewing the supernatural plot elements, but you can't watch the supposedly human action without thinking "no effing way would that ever happen." A good one to laugh at with bad-movie-loving (and at least somewhat irreverent) friends.

As a Christian I found this film to be truly embarrassing, not because of the content but because it was lacking in every way as a film. The plot was boring and predictable, the acting was mostly bad, the dialog was corny-uninspiring, the special effects were poor quality, and so on. I think that the only reason people went to see it or had anything good to say about it was because it was a "Christian" film. Supporting crappy anything just because it aligns with your view points is self defeating! All I can say is at least it can't get much worse. Do NOT waste your time or money watching this film, there are way better conspiracy/end of the world films out there. One side note, I haven't read the book this film was supposedly based on so I am not making any judgement calls about that.

This movie starts off with a Jewish scholar by the name of "Rabbi Rostenberg" (Yehuda Efroni) completing research on a Biblical code which can unlock secret messages of prophetic importance from within the Bible. Because of the significant advantages to be gained from its possession, evil forces want his work and send a hit man named "Dominic" (Michael Ironside) to kill him and acquire it. They succeed in killing him and they get most of the code. But not all. When the news of Rabbi Rostenberg's murder leaks out a popular motivational speaker named "Gillen Lane" (Casper Van Dien) is called upon by television reporter "Cassandra Barashe" (Catherine Oxenberg) to explain to her audience the importance of this Bible code. Not long afterward the man recently appointed as the Chairman of the European Union, "Stone Alexander" (Michael York) calls upon Gillen Lane to be his public relations spokesman as he launches an effort to consolidate the world under his leadership. Anyway, rather than disclose the entire plot and ruin the mystery for those who haven't seen this movie I will just say that while this film is entertaining the story itself is mishandled a bit. The main cause of this is the fact that it spends a great deal of time on setting up the story but condenses way too much material at the end. As a result the ending leaves much to be desired. Still, both Michael Ironside and Michael York, along with Catherine Oxenberg to a lesser degree, performed in a reasonably good manner and their performances make the film watchable. However, I cannot say the same for Casper Van Dien as he just didn't have the presence required to be a lead actor. In any case, this isn't a bad Christian film and I think it deserves an average rating.

I am wondering if it all boils down to this: Adonai versus Lucifer - the dark Universe versus the Sun. The Universe is the mother - female - which gives birth to stars including our Sun - the male. The Universe is the Creator - Adonai - who creates the created - the Sun - Lucifer. Although we can choose to face and embody one dimorphic extreme, we can Love both - and be both. That is exactly what the hermaphroditic god represents: Siva, Zoroaster, Baphomet. IS = ISIS = FEMALE RA = SUNGOD = MALE EL = LORDJacob became a balanced sexually schismatic God - ISRAEL!This movie is amateur - but the plot is second to none if you can get past the home-made directing. Is is unabashedly Christian - which only bothers those who fear Christianity. I am Western, but not Christian. This movie is refreshing as it attempts - and more or less succeeds - at enacting Biblical Anti-Christ prophecy in a way no other movie I have ever seen comes even close. Why not let Christians have their say? What are you afraid of?