Published on October 19, 2004 @ 4:21 pm .
Following up with my review and synopsis of Prophecy, here’s more crap. This time about Prophecy 2.
Prophecy 2 starts with a nurse driving to work. An angel falls on her car. Meanwhile, the Devil doesn’t think there is enough room in Hell for him and Gabriel, so Gabe climbs out. Into a parking lot. In California.
The nurse feels bad about hitting the angel with her car (she doesn’t know it’s an angel) so she takes him home and they bang. I know. Makes sense to me too.
A few days later she’s 3 months pregnant. At the same time, Gabe has been gearing up to get his war on.
Lots of inconsequential stuff happens- the cop from the first movie has joined an order of monks. He goes crazy and is killed by Gabe. The mortician gets wrapped up in everything again. His assistant, Ethan Embry, gets killed by Gabe. Gabe and Brittany Murphy try to kill the woman.
Finally, Gabe tries to kill the woman in the Garden of Eden, which is now apparently in LA somewhere. Instead, Gabe is killed by the woman when Jesus apparently tells here to jump off the crane elevator she and Gabe are on. And though a metal rod pierces Gabe through the chest while he is clutching the woman, she is unscathed. Gabe’s punishment this time- Michael (leader of the pro-human faction) turns him into a human.
Pros:
Naked angel ass.
The background info on Nephilim
Walken
Cons:
This movie could have been 30 minutes long.
Final thoughts- This movie is worth seeing if you’re going to sit down and watch all 3 at the same time. If not, this review will suit you fine.
Published on October 19, 2004 @ 3:23 pm .
On Sunday, ACWGF and I had quite the time. We got her car washed (a topic for another blog post) and we ate Chinese food, and watched the Prophecy movies. This was one of the best Sundays I have had in recent memory.
The Prophecy trilogy is quite the bomb. It’s a goofy sci-fi/pre-apocalyptic series focusing around Christian mythology.
The quick and dirty of the first movie goes like this:
Gabriel (played by Chris Walken, and only one of 2 particularly interesting actors in the series) hates humans because God loves humans more than angels. Gabriel wages a war that involves a pro-human faction and anti-human faction in Heaven. The AH faction wants to steal the most evil soul on earth (that of a American Colonel who murdered and committed ritual sacrifice on his enemy combatants in war) but before Gabriel can steal this soul, Simon, of the PH faction, does and hides it in a little girl.
Because this takes place in the human realm, some serious damage is done to the human world, and a seminarian cum detective/expert on angels gets involved. He finds the little girl and tries to protect her from Gabriel. The Devil gets in touch with the cop and lets him know how to take down Gabriel. The Devil wants the cop to win because he knows that if Gabriel wins there will be a second Heaven exclusive to angels. (Apparently the Devil doesn’t think God will cast Gabe out for this because Gabe isn’t trying to become a god.) If there is a second Heaven, there must be a second Hell. A second Hell means that Lucifer will have to share the spotlight with another Hell and another Devil. In essence, the Devil is driven by the same arrogance that got him tossed out in the first place.
When Gabe does confront the cop, the cop takes the Devil’s advice and manages to defeat Gabriel by shoving free will and having faith in Gabe’s face. That gives the Devil enough time to leap in and rip Gabe’s heart out (the only way to kill and angel). The Devil eats the heart, and Gabe is dragged into Hell. The spirit is exorcised from the little girl, and as it floats out of her body it is a’sploded by light from Heaven. The End of movie 1.
Pros:
1)Walken
2)I think it’s kind of neat that all the angels, fallen or not, always greet each other by first name.
3)Fairly interesting story
Cons:
1)No apocalyptic war where angels fight in Heaven, Hell, and on Earth over the fate of humans.
P.S. The other character of interest is a mortician. He usually played Kenny Bania on Seinfeld.
