The Prophecy: Forsaken

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Steve D 02/21/2023 The former cast is missed but this one has an interesting story. See more 12/26/2021 Following the events of The Prophecy: Uprising, Allison (Kari Wuhrer) continues his mission of protecting the book that writes itself, the Lexicon, as it predicts the war in Heaven and the name of the Antichrist. Now, Stark (Tony Todd) is leading renegade angels called Thrones to get the book while Allison is assisted by Dylan (Jason Scott Lee, who played Bruce Lee in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story), a killer who decides to not kill her and keep her safe. Filmed at the same time as the last movie in Bucharest, Romania by director and writer Joel Soisson who would soon make a trilogy of Dracula movies for Dimension — also with Lee — the fifth Prophecy film is better than you'd think and if you miss Christopher Walken, at least you can appreciate the world-building and mythology that gets carried across five movies. Compare that to how Hellraiser got treated and come back to these movies and let me know what you think. See more andrew k 09/12/2021 Same as the last one. Direct-to-Video fodder, banking on franchise recognition. Tony Todd and Jason Scott Lee are pleasant surprises. I just wish the script was better. See more 07/27/2021 Straight to video sequels to the Prophecy movies that starred Walken. If you are into this Biblical drama's it is a decent follow up. See more 06/10/2017 Filmed back-to-back with the last Prophet sequel, this one picks up right where "The Prophecy: Uprising" left off. Kari Wuhrer is still in possession of a mystical book that both angels from heaven and demons from hell want. I found the previous sequel mildly diverting, and Wuhrer is a b-movie actress ("Anaconda" "Beastmaster 2" "G-Men from Hell") who I've always liked, but I found this sequel rather dull. The low-budget film is competently made from a technical standpoint, but the story here wan't all that clever or interesting. No real reason to watch this film unless you feel compelled to watch all five of The Prophecy films. Jason Scott Lee and Tony Todd also appear in the film. See more 02/25/2016 So the crew were already in Eastern Europe, so why not bust out another unnecessary sequel? Prophecy 5: Still flogging a dead horse! This one flips the bad Angel, now Tony Todd as Stark who is tall, skinny and more imposing, though he allows (orders) his undead human lackey Dylan (Jason Lee) to do most of the leg work. Allison remains on the run in a disguise that makes her look like a 40 years older Kim Cattrall - that would have her at around 40 - Stark and the naughty angels are still after the book, Allison still hears voices and they still end up at the same mysterious house where they can all share visions and flashbacks, the same ones that padded out 4. Same as the first 4 films now, Armageddon is looming. Some want it. Some don't. And some poor humans are stuck in the middle of it to be unwilling pawns in the action because of whatever tenuous reason the writers can conjure. It must be said that it is not the acting that does in these two films, Jason Lee, Sean Pertwee, Tony Todd and Kari Wuhrer do the best they can to not just throw up their hands and exclaim "Didn't I just say that exact same thing in the last scene? And the one before that? And the..." The filmmaker obviously didn't have the budget, hence the location, dodgy CGI, the doubling up of meaningless dialogue and the flashbacks upon flashbacks. They didn't even use the Angel's abilities much, no superhero stuff at all here. Which all brings me back to my original rhetorical question: WHY TWO FILMS? The two films could easily have been condensed into one 100 minute flick that still wouldn't have been awe-inspiring, but would have been far less disappointing than the dull replica that picks from all of the first three films without retaining any of the truly cool - not always expensive - parts. Final rating - 5 / 10. Not terrible, but definitely not good, merely a product that justified the release of a couple DVDs and perhaps put some actors' kids through another year of school. If you liked this review (or even if you didn't) check out oneguyrambling.com for over 500 reviews and plenty more good stuff... See more Read all reviews

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