Truth be told The Prophecy was lucky to get one sequel let alone 4 of them. The original was an excellent little unexpected B film that thanks to Christopher Walken and a catchy theological themed plot got a little buzz, but every release since has progressively deteriorated in quality, leading to two unnecessary films that are basically cashing in on the name.
While I'm feeling especially honest these two films were only ever going to be ordinary fare it was the name that got me to rent them in the first place – a different title would have seen me walk past these two low rent cheapies for eternity.
Both Prophecy Uprising and Forsaken (4 and 5 respectively) feature the same new characters, are only 2 and a bit hours in length combined – with credits and flashbacks padding that – and were released in the same year.
They may as well have gone ahead and merged the two but that wouldn't have had completists like me shilling for two rentals would it? The film(s) take place in Eastern Europe in an area particularly run down and stricken with poverty, Dani (Sean Pertwee) is a cop who is not altogether on the straight and narrow. When investigating the death of his snitch he is joined by a man who claims to be from Interpol named "John".
It shouldn't be a spoiler to anyone who was around for any of the first three films that John is a little more than he makes out, enter another Angel named Belial from the "other team", a woman named Allison who hears voices in her head and comes across a "magic book" that both teams must have and we have our ingredients in place.
Uprising takes all the major parties mentioned above to a place that holds dark secrets for Dani and Allison ummm, and that's it really.
Please press eject and insert disc 2: Forsaken, which we hope you have rented because you kinda need to see it if you want to know how this ends.
While I'm feeling especially honest these two films were only ever going to be ordinary fare it was the name that got me to rent them in the first place – a different title would have seen me walk past these two low rent cheapies for eternity.
Both Prophecy Uprising and Forsaken (4 and 5 respectively) feature the same new characters, are only 2 and a bit hours in length combined – with credits and flashbacks padding that – and were released in the same year.
They may as well have gone ahead and merged the two but that wouldn't have had completists like me shilling for two rentals would it? The film(s) take place in Eastern Europe in an area particularly run down and stricken with poverty, Dani (Sean Pertwee) is a cop who is not altogether on the straight and narrow. When investigating the death of his snitch he is joined by a man who claims to be from Interpol named "John".
It shouldn't be a spoiler to anyone who was around for any of the first three films that John is a little more than he makes out, enter another Angel named Belial from the "other team", a woman named Allison who hears voices in her head and comes across a "magic book" that both teams must have and we have our ingredients in place.
Uprising takes all the major parties mentioned above to a place that holds dark secrets for Dani and Allison ummm, and that's it really.
Please press eject and insert disc 2: Forsaken, which we hope you have rented because you kinda need to see it if you want to know how this ends.