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www.filmcritic.com - : Huh? We've got vengeful angels, we've got a soul hidden in the body of a little girl, we've got Virginia Madsen as a brunette. We've got a plot that's hopelessly confusing and dully simple at the same time. We've got bad dialogue and sleep-inducing momentum -- and this is an action film. Naturally, what else did we get? Sequels. more...
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www.boxoffice.com - : Writer/director Gregory Widen has created a richpremise a war between angels and mankind but lets his script rideon the concept alone, leaving plot development and charactermotivations sketchy and promising possibilitiesuninvestigated.Elias Koteas stars as Thomas Dagget, who abandons the church afterhaving horrifying mental images of a biblical war in Heaven. Yearslater, now a homicide cop, he finds on investigating a murder thatthe corpse is not human. An ancient bible is found with the body,containing a previously unknown chapter telling of a second war tobe waged by angels on earth. That war is about to occur, led by theArchangel Gabriel (Christopher Walken), whose jealousy of God'slove for humans has turned him malevolent and bloodthirsty.Walken's intense edge and dark comedic sense breathe lifeinto Gabriel's sardonic and ruthless persona. His sidekick Jerry(Adam Goldberg) provides macabre levity as a miserable butwisecracking suicide victim whom Gabriel temporarily reanimates. more...
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