Really Surprised!

Crappy film

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

With Kevin Downes as producer you know this film will have a Christian imprimatur on it though it is far from 'Christian' movie. In fact it's not all that bad.Martin Donovan plays a disillusioned minister whose wife was killed some years ago in an unsolved case. When all kinds of 'miracles' happen in the town of Antioch, he's got a highly dubious mind on the subject. But things are happening including the resurrection of his own dog. It's all attributed to the presence of young Edward Furlong who is a charismatic healer. Those he does perform miracles on become devoted followers willing to do anything for him.Donovan, Kelly Lynch who is worried about her son Noah Segan being swept up by Furlong, and minister Randy Travis who has never lost his faith become a trio of investigators into this and let's say it isn't God's work they're finding with Furlong.As for Furlong he's working off a grudge of long standing and finds himself being used by some dark forces.All these people have done better work, been in better films. But this one is not too bad from the genre.

OK, say it with me: ITS JUST A MOVIE! Anyway, i thought it was freaky, but good! Its made for our entertainment, and i don't hear anyone giving Edward Furlong any kind of recognition, because he did a good job, And By the way, DAMN, Edward Furlong looked hot. Never thought he was very cute, but WOW, he had that evil sexiness going on! Now, of course i live somewhere where i would never, never see him, but if i ever did, i would definitely say that he does not get enough recognition, and regardless of the comments for this movie, it made me DEFINITELY want to see him more. Yumm, yumm! OK, any y the hell do we have to write so much on this thing before it will post your comment, i mean good gravy i wrote a freaken paragraph here!

Based on the excellent drama-horror book by Frank Peretti, this movie was more like a twisted, rewritten version done for film.The story was reworked and exposition was changed, characters changed, until the master screenwriter came up with something more fitting for today's Hollywood- in other words the end results was cliché, badly cut, and dramatic in all the wrong places. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a B movie, it was better than most B movies I've seen. More like a B+ or an A-.The editing and film style resemble a two hour long episode of CSI without the forensics- and CSI fans will notice that the cast is pretty much an entire ensemble of CSI extras.In the end, its like they say, the book is always better. In this case the movie could have been just as good, but they decided to make it overly dramatic and hackneyed with little real character development and evolution.Frank Peretti, I give you 2 thumbs up. Movie, you only get a tiny little knubby knuckle up.

This is a cut above a lot of the movies of this genre.... call them "Omanesque." They usually fall into one of two categories: Some defrocked priest is confronted by the devil and is reborn....or The whole thing is just a big hoax and the devil-likes are nothing but clever cons. I was afraid, for some time, that this movie was going to fall into the latter category. It didn't. But it didn't fall completely into the drivel that usually occurs when the "lost one" discovers a biblical god again. Close. The special effects were pretty good. The plot had some holes but not as big as a lot of these movies. No jumping cats out of closets with the attendant crash of cymbals. Drama level was high and the interest in the primary characters is also...unlike so many, when you feel like, "oh, who cares? Let 'em go to the devil." I had genuine empathy for our hero and heroine. My only problem with the whole category is that I think it re-enforces the idea that if some statuary starts weeping...it's a miracle! And god will save the sinner. Life is a little more complex than that.