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- "Some people lose their faith because Heaven shows them too little," says Thomas Daggett. "But how many people lose their faith because Heaven showed them too much?" Daggett nearly became a priest; now he's a cop. He may want to put religion behind him, but one morning a weird, eyeless, hermaphroditic corpse turns up. Suddenly he is on a path that will put him right in the middle of a war in Heaven. And once again, Heaven will show him too much: gore, blood, charred flesh, living corpses and much worse. Even more central to the heavenly war effort is a young girl. This American Indian child has something Gabriel wants. And Gabriel is willing to kill her and anyone in his path - or even reanimate a corpse or two - to get it.
- The angel Gabriel comes to Earth to collect a soul which will end the stalemated war in Heaven, and only a former priest and a little girl can stop him.
- The movie is about a war angels have waged amongst themselves. It turns out there is a bit of jealously about God placing humans in the same esteem as angels. So the angel, Gabriel, decides to lead an army of angels against God.<br/><br/>The story sounds pretty good at this point. Gabriel is played by Christopher Walken and Eric Stoltz plays the angel Simon. Other stars are Virginia Madsen as a schoolteacher and Viggo Mortensen (Lord of the Rings) as Lucifer. All of them play a great part in showing the relationship between angels, man, and god. Where things get a bit confusing is in Gabriel's search for the most evil human soul. Apparently this can act as some weapon against God, ultimately giving Gabriel his vengeance. The story behind the WHY or HOW of all of this really isn't given. The story just plays along showing the humans protecting the soul, which is hidden in the body of a little girl. The soul's location does well to get the audience to sympathize. Yet the whole "possessed bit" in the film feels off and a little weird.<br/><br/>Otherwise, it's not a bad idea for a movie and certainly creative. And a great cast is there to deliver the goods. I just think the director maybe got a little carried away with an already-fine story. 6/10
- There is a thin line between exploring new fields, and simple trash. "The prophecy" is moving on this line, and it doesn't decide itself for none of both sides. It isn't trash because of the interesting theological question (how can we love god if he is absent?) and the strong appearance of Christopher Walken and Viggo Mortensen; it isn't convincing either because of the non-development of the supposed main character, the unsatisfying end and the absolutely not convincing nexus between celestial and secular business.
- The angel Simon (<a href="/name/nm0000655/">Eric Stoltz</a>) sucks out the soul of recently-deceased Colonel Arnold Hawthorne, considered to be the darkest soul on Earth, and hides it in the body of a young Native American schoolgirl named Mary (<a href="/name/nm0811528/">Moriah 'Shining Dove' Snyder</a>). When the archangel Gabriel (<a href="/name/nm0000686/">Christopher Walken</a>) comes looking for Hawthorne's soul in order to fulfill a prophecy that will end an angelic civil war in heaven, the only one to stop him is seminarian-turned-police-officer Thomas Daggett (<a href="/name/nm0000480/">Elias Koteas</a>). However, Gabriel will stop at nothing, even ripping Mary to shreds, to get that soul. The Prophecy is based on a screenplay written by American film-maker Gregory Widen, who also directed the movie. It was followed by four sequels: <a href="/title/tt0118643/">The Prophecy II (1998)</a> (1998) and <a href="/title/tt0183678/">The Prophecy 3: The Ascent (2000)</a> (2000), both also written by Widen, plus <a href="/title/tt0365658/">The Prophecy: Uprising (2005)</a> (2005), and <a href="/title/tt0439771/">The Prophecy: Forsaken (2005)</a> (2005). God has put humans in His grace by giving them souls and pushed aside the Angels, who have no souls. Consequently, some of the Angels became jealous, and they started a second war in order to regain their favored position at the right hand of God. There shall be a dark soul, and this soul will eat other dark souls and so become their inheritor. This soul will not rest in an angel, but a man, and he shall be a warrior. Hawthorne is said to have the "blackest" soul on earth at the time. He was convicted of conducting human sacrifices and alleged cannibalism by he and his troops at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir in North Korea in 1950. Simon wants to hide Hawthorne's soul so that it can't be used as the "dark soul" in the angelic war. Gabriel wants to use it to his side's advantage. In some Christian theology, a soul in the state of grace is considered "white", whereas a serious sin (sometimes referred to as a "mortal" sin) blackens the soul. Consequently, the angels only have to look at a person's soul to see how black it is. Hawthorne's soul was the blackest soul on earth. When Mary gets sick thanks to Hawthorne's soul inside her, Grandmother Emma () calls in a hand trembler (aka ndilniihii). In Navajo medicine, the hand trembler attempts to diagnose the cause of the illness by analyzing the movements of her hand. Depending upon the diagnosis, the patient may require a certain "sing" (also called a "way"), a specific chant that can only be performed by the "singer" (Medicine Man). In Mary's case, the hand trembler determines that something is inside her and that Mary will need to have the Enemy Ghost Way. Emma, Katherine, and Thomas take Mary up to Old Woman Butte where the Medicine Man (<a href="/name/nm0625133/">Albert Nelson</a>) and the elders of her clan are preparing for the Enemy Ghost Way ceremony. Meanwhile, Gabriel has resurrected Rachel (<a href="/name/nm0001625/">Amanda Plummer</a>), a dying woman who he wants to drive him to Old Woman Butte. Lucifer (<a href="/name/nm0001557/">Viggo Mortensen</a>) appears to Katherine and Thomas and tells Thomas that the key to defeating Gabriel is by using Gabriel's lack of faith. "What if an angel, just like you, didn't understand?" he hints. Thomas lays a chain across the road and, when Gabriel finally arrives, he pulls the chain tight, ripping apart Gabriel's car, so Gabriel walks the rest of the way on foot. He breaks open the door to the hogan and attempts to interrupt the ceremony, but Thomas drives his truck through the door, knocking Gabriel aside and beating him with a tire iron. Lucifer then appears. Gabriel tells Lucifer that this is his (Gabriel's) war, but Lucifer replies that the war is based on arrogance, which is evil, making it Lucifer's war. Lucifer then rips out Gabriel's heart. Thomas tells the elders to complete the ceremony, and Hawthorne's soul is eventually expelled from Mary's body and destroyed. Taking a bite out of Gabriel's heart, Lucifer asks Thomas and Katherine to come home with him, but they refuse. In the final scene, the Medicine Man scatters the remains of the sand paintings to the Earth. In a voiceover, Thomas muses, And in the end, I think it must be about faith. And if faith is a choice, then it can be lost...for a man, an angel...the devil himself. And if faith means never completely understanding God's plan, then maybe understanding just a part of it, our part, is what it means to have a soul.And maybe, in the end, that's what being human is after all. No, as evidenced when Thomas decisively tells Lucifer, "I'm not an angel. I'm just a man, which means I got something you don't. It's a soul." Some viewers have suggested that another comment from Lucifer, in which he tells Thomas, "What if an angel, like you, didn't understand?", could be taken to mean that Lucifer is saying that Thomas is an angel, Awkward as the sentence is, it should be interpreted as "Imagine an angel didn't understand, just like you don't understand." Thomas was simply a man who, while studying to become a priest, began to have prophetic visions of the war between the angels in heaven. Yes. The shooting draft for the movie can be found at Weekly Script. The alternative version is the European video release version under the title "God's Army". As it never got a theatrical release, it was released directly on video and subsequently shown on TV in a full frame transfer. The loss of almost 40% of it's original widescreen image resulted in certain scenes being unusable, as even in a pan-and-scan transfer it was impossible to convey the visual elements convincingly. a5c7b9f00b
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