The Prophecy - Uprising
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Movie Reviews of The Prophecy - Uprising
Movie Review: For Those About To Watch; A Helpful Hint...
Summary: 3 Stars
Here's an annoying little thing that you'll have to do, before watching this movie, and that is to put on the, "English Captions", as there are several scenes with Romanian dialog (which I at first mistook for being benign, since there was no automatic English subtitling, but upon further viewing, noticed that too much Romanian dialog was being used, for it to just be for effect)
But here's the rub, there's no option to only have the Romanian dialog subtitled, so you're forced to watch the whole movie with the English subtitles, as there's only one English subtitling option on the subtitling menu :(
If anyone else has discerned a way to watch this movie with only the Romanian language subtitled, I'd be glad to hear from them, but I'm afraid that it looks like, there isn't :(
Movie Review: "It was quite a party while it lasted."
Summary: 4 Stars
Who knew Lucifer liked puns?
The first three Prophecy movies tell the story of a second war in heaven (where the angel Gabriel joins the bad guys). The Prophecy: Uprising seems to be about a third war, this time in hell, with the angel Belial (one of Satan's most loyal lieutenants at the Fall) insisting on continuing the fallen angels' rebellion, while Satan himself seems to be tired of the struggle. Belial looks at Satan the way Mao looked at Khrushchev, as a betrayer of the revolution. And the communist analogy is apt, because The Prophecy: Uprising takes place in Romania, after the fall of the dictator Nicolai Ceausescu's regime.
The Prophecy: Uprising is a suspenseful remake of the first Prophecy movie that unfolds without hitting you over the head with (you'll pardon the expression) revelations. The filmmakers expect you to pay attention. The story, the acting, and the images all keep you hooked.
This film makes it clear that real devils wear suits and carry government ID cards. They take "subversives" to basement torture chambers where they'll never be heard from again.
As Lucifer (played fittingly by the actor John Light - - Lucifer does mean "light-bearer" after all), says, "The atrocities committed here will echo forever inside these walls." Then he shows two grown-up children the murder of their parents, committed by Ceausescu's secret police.
Satan means "adversary" or "plotter," and this movie is all about betrayal. Satan betrays God, Belial betrays Satan, Satan (it seems to Belial) betrays his fallen cohorts and their revolt against the order in heaven. But the most pitiful (and seemingly unforgivable) betrayal is a purely human one - - a boy betrays his parents and sister to the secret police and spends his life looking for redemption. The boy (now a grown policeman himself) tries to find forgiveness in the Romanian church, but it's Satan who shows him that he was just a child, doing what his teachers indoctrinated him to do, and that he was not to blame. It's Satan who offers the forgiveness that never comes from God. (God never appears in The Prophecy movies. Eventually you realize that it doesn't matter if he exists or not. The two different kinds of beings - - angels and "talking monkeys" - - do what they do because of what THEY are, not because of what HE is. In Uprising, Satan tells the policeman's sister that angels hate human beings "because of what you are.")
But to the angels, like us, "the word means everything." They murder humans and each other to possess the still uncompleted book of prophecy. Angels divide into sects, fight wars, and rip out each other's hearts for what looks like the same kind of ideologies we monkeys do. No better, no worse. Just more powerful.
The Prophecy: Uprising isn't Paradise Lost, but it's almost poetic when Belial reminds his former general of those days before the creation of the earth, when they fought Michael's hordes to the very pit of hell, and then fell, losing paradise but keeping their self-respect.
ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDATION: Speaking of Milton, anyone who finds The Prophecy movies philosophically interesting should read Steven Brust's novel
To Reign in Hell. It's got a science-fictiony explanation of how the universe could come from nothing, and it suggests that it was Yahweh's hubris, not Satan's, that started all the trouble in heaven and on earth.
The Prophecy: Uprising proves that when the writing and the acting are good it's the low-budget movies that tell the truth. (Ron Howard is having trouble with believing Christians over the plot of the blockbuster he's trying to make from Dan Brown's bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code.) If a movie has to make a hundred million dollars on its opening weekend, it can't afford to offend anyone.
But a B movie can show that angels might envy talking monkeys, and wonder what happened to their creator. (As Christopher Walken as Gabriel said in the first Prophecy film, "We haven't spoken in a long time.")
Movie Review: Not Bad
Summary: 3 Stars
Very little special effects and that's what made the movie that much more interesting. The acting was good and the suspense and plot was enough to keep me guessing. In all, the movie was better than I expected. Ending was a surprise but in keeping with the Phrophecy series. I look forward to the next one(hopefully)Movie Review: Better than expected...
Summary: 4 Stars
Another "Prophecy" sequel? Yes, but this one is not really a sequel, its another story altogether. Taking place in Eastern Europe, the story follows the hunt for a killer by a cop with a dark past.
He is "aided" by an Angel who is hunting for something the killer is after. The acting in this film is very good and the plot "twist" at the end was cool. I don't want to give anything away, but I will convey that the movie constantly blurs the boundries between good and evil.
Don't expect alot of special effects, expect a good story.
Movie Review: "here is a detailed review"
Summary: 3 Stars
It's British, it's cheap and the special effects are almost non existent. What more do you need to know ?