Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Christopher WalkenGabriel
- Elias KoteasThomas Daggett
- Virginia MadsenKatherine Henley
- Eric StoltzSimon
- Viggo MortensenLucifer
- Amanda PlummerRachael
- Moriah 'Shining Dove' SnyderMary
- Adam GoldbergJerry
- Steve HytnerJoseph
- J.C. QuinnBurrows
Recommandations
- 83
Entertainment Weekly
Mixing one of B horror’s lamest clichés (the failed priest-turned-cop character) with an innovative plot device (a long-missing chapter from the Bible), The Prophecy is an old-fashioned thriller with art-house pretensions. - 60
Empire
Good ideas. Average film. - 60
Time Out
As it is, the movie never quite delivers on the Big Idea, but at least Walken comes through in spades: he's out of this world. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
For all its goofiness, director Widen has made a film with some genuinely creepy moments. - 50
Washington Post
Though the actor (Walken) does little more than stroll through the film, he creates such an immediate sense of electricity that everyone else seems dim by comparison. Angels, devils or cops, they just aren't in his league. - 50
Chicago Reader
It's not your usual story line, but Widen makes it sufficiently plausible; unfortunately, the film's fireworks ending isn't as subtle or spooky as the rest of the movie. - 40
Austin Chronicle
Widen gets an “A” for ambition here, but by the end of the whole shebang, you really couldn't care less. - 40
The New York Times
Angels have proliferated in popular culture in such profusion lately that maybe they needed a comeuppance. A few more movies like The Prophecy should stop the whole celestial bandwagon right in its tracks.
