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Metascore
14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 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.
- 60EmpireEmpireGood ideas. Average film.
- 60Time OutTime OutAs 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.
- 50San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleFor all its goofiness, director Widen has made a film with some genuinely creepy moments.
- 50Washington PostHal HinsonWashington PostHal HinsonThough 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.
- 50Chicago ReaderChicago ReaderIt'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.
- 40Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovWiden gets an “A” for ambition here, but by the end of the whole shebang, you really couldn't care less.
- 40The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenAngels 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.
- 38ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThis is a bad movie with a good sense of humor.
- 16Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe Prophecy is an occult freakshow so inert it seems to have been pasted together out of stock footage.