Revelation Movie
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...the Book has been opened
Thorold Stone's family was among those who vanished three months ago, and he is still stung by that fact. Since childhood, he has always been logical and suspicious, and, of course, he's uncertain whether Franco Macalousso is the Messiah he claims he is. Stone works for Len Parker, who runs One Nation Earth, the organization that rounds up the Haters who stand in Macalousso's way. Soon, however, he realises that the Christians have been framed, and he has been set up. To prove Macalusso's true colours, he must band with his own enemies - the Haters themselves, led by Helen Hannah.
| Jeff Fahey | Thorold Stone |
| Tony Nappo | Willie Spino |
| Carol Alt | Cindy Bolton |
| Leigh Lewis | Helen Hannah |
| Nick Mancuso | Franco Macalousso |
| David Roddis | Len Parker |
| Marium Carvell | Selma Davis |
| Rick Demas | David Nidd |
| Patrick Gallagher | Jake Goss |
| Rothaford Gray | Ron Spalding |
| Bruce McFee | Agent Spencer |
| Corry Carpf | Wendy Stone |
| Chloe Randle-Reis | Maggie Stone |
| Melville White | Victor Davis |
| Neville Edwards | Agent Walker |
| André van Heerden |
4.70 out of 10 (356 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Good idea, poor execution
posted on 28 Jan 2009The storyline is very intriguing, and the setup of a man being left behind after his wife and daughter ascend in the rapture is very gripping. But the movie falls flat most of the rest of the way. Not until the characters are in the "World of Wonders" and being tempted by the Anti-Christ, does the movie portray any real tension. The acting isn't what it should be, and after the initial setup, the plot is as flimsy as an A-Team episode. Still, kudos to the writers for making this story. You won't see many movies tackle the subject of the rapture, one world government and Anti-Christ from such an obvious Christian perspective. I wish there were more movies brave enough to do so, and then maybe we would get one that is top notch all the way through.
Thilling, Exciting, Better than Bond.
posted on 18 Oct 2008Boy! Out of all the movies I have seen, this one is the best. If you like thrillers and have not seen this, you are missing out. The only draw back is that it is only 97 minutes and you wish it was longer. But it is wonderfully done! Here is the report card for the movie: Thrilling: A+ Acting: A- Special Effects: B+ Romance: None, but Stone is in search of his family. So... B+ Humor: A- Holly Wood Style: A+Over all what the rating should be on IMDB: 9.1If you have seen it, you will agree!It should have had a bigger end to it, but there was no time.
Surprisingly interesting. But still doesn't look professional.
posted on 04 Sep 2008This movie is better than Left Behind. (that movie didn't do the book justice) This movie is slightly better in that it has good suspense within it.(Spoilers?? Course if you believe in Revelation you know what'll happen) However thats as far as I go in supporting it. The biggest problem I have is they don't have that polished hollywood look to them. Even an independent film tries. With storylines so poorly written a child could do it better. (hey when your a child, your Gods best fan) Plotlines are leaking about all over the floor. Like, what happened to the two numbnuts following the dog going from telephone pole to telephone pole.
Or how the heck did main cast escape the fire at the end? That was the worst. They also didn't show the temptation of the paralized man. It was a short enough movie that I think they could have added that without much harm.Unlike the Left Behind dvd, Revelations dvd totally sucks. It has three movie trailers, and a 5 minute interview (written as if it's appendix one to the movie) The cast movie listing is rather sub par.Recommendations.. if your a non-believer you might want to watch this. But if your a believer and love polished original type movies... don't buy... just rent.5/10Quality: 3/10 Entertainment: 8/10 Replayable: 5/10
I really tried...
posted on 08 Oct 2007True, I was given a warning that this was a bad movie. I proceeded at my own peril, especially since I have rather enjoyed some truly awful movies in the past. The difference here is that "Revelation" takes itself waaaay too seriously (speaking as a Christian!) to make up for the complete and total lack of quality. The plot itself had some potential. Unfortunately, none of that potential was fulfilled. I can only describe the dialogue between the actors as tired and predictable thanks to a lousy script and lackluster acting. This only served to uncover a glaring truth: this movie features the worst directing I've ever witnessed. Safe to say, it's the worst movie I've ever seen. I'm really trying to be positive, I swear. Can I say one nice thing about it? At least it was only the length of an average children's movie. I still can't believe I sat through the whole movie! Please tell me they're kidding when they list *4* of these in a series?!?!? Best to avoid this one.
The Lalonde Brothers have set a NEW STANDARD in Christian Films
posted on 15 Aug 2007HORRAY! No longer do Christian movies have to hide in the shadows of Hollywood Big-Budget films. No longer do Christians have to APOLIGIZE to their friends for the poor acting and quality BEFORE we even share the movie with them, Because Peter & Paul Lalonde have set a NEW STANDARD in Christian films. REVELATION is an OUTSTANDING feature based on the book of Revelation. The quality is as good as ANY Hollywood film, the acting is so believable and professional, the action and special effects were larger than life, and the suspense was EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT! Never before has ANY film been able to capture the DRAMA and MYSTERY of the last days with such realism. Nick Mancuso is PERFECTLY cast as the sinister anti-christ trying to take over the world. Carol Alt and Tony Nappo almost stole the show as the mis-guided couple who gamble with their souls. I was so PROUD of this movie, I have been showing it to ALL my friends, and I have been seeing lives being changed. This movie will work on more than your senses, it'll work on your spirit as well. Now I know why Entertainment Weekly has suddenly taken notice at the newest wave of Christian Films. Hollywood, MOVE ASIDE, here comes REVELATION!!!
Believable
posted on 06 Jun 2007Spoiler!!I thought this film was better than Left Behind. It was believable. It makes one wonder what is really in store for us. I like the idea of the virtual reality. The dog visiting all the hydro poles when he was being tracked was funny. There is real evil out there and I guess the actor who played the messiah represented it very well. There was lots of action in this movie believe or not. An interesting guess into the book of Revelations.6/10
The film is a great one
posted on 04 Jun 2007This film is entertaining and I think that only believers were to get the humor, since most of it was bible-based. Thorold Stone is a non-believer that had a wife and daughter who lived God and God called them to be with him in the air (2 Thess 4) and he has missed them since.Franco Macalusso has risen to power and a lot of buzz is going on about THE DAY OF WONDERS.A bus has been blown up with innocent children in it--everyone points to 'haters' and will stop at nothing to see them dead.Technology will play a part in the end times also as they don VR helmets that will put them face to face with the Antichrist that will 'save them' but deliver them to hell once they don the mark.Stone gradually becomes a believer and intends to take Macalusso down by sending a virus to O.N.E headquarters after he learns the truth. He also knows that O.N.E. blew up that bus so that Macalusso can start a war with the Christians and wipe them from the face of the Earth. He doesn't know that Helen Hannah's brother has received the mark and will sabotage the endeavor, which he does. He is about to die when Helen smashes the computer and the believers are caught, like sheep in the mouths of wolves.They sing Amacing Grace which is the Gospel message in a song (check 2 Cor 5:21 also a good summary of the Gospel) and escape like Shadrach, Meshack and Abednego (forgive me for my spelling) and shows that God is the same today, tomorrow and forever. The O.N.E. headquarters are burned down because the heat was turned up too high and the demon opened the door thus releasing the flames. Macalusso blames the believers for it (as will they when the plagues are unleashed in Revelation) and thus THE DAY OF WONDERS is postponed until they recover and the believers are safe for now anyway
Top-notch Biblical cinema!
posted on 14 Mar 2007After seeing the disgraceful ruining of the story of Noah on NBC, I was so glad to see a piece of cinema like "Revelation." I feel it held very true to the way the Bible predicts the Rapture of the Christian Church and the following tribulation. The acting was great as was the story line. I hope this movie will be a model for future Biblically based movies.
Lord help us!
posted on 02 Nov 2006In 1999, I was considering a job with Cloud Ten, the company that produced and distributed the movie. The company was planning on making many mainstream Christian movies. Revelation was suppose to be their first big screen blockbuster. They made me watch the movie as part of the interview process. After thirty minutes of watching and another 30 minutes of fast forwarding the tape, I gave up on this movie. I liked the casting but the story and acting was horrible. As part of my application process, I had to write a press release for the movie. I struggled with the content but managed to promote the movie in a positive light in the vain of getting the job. I was offered a contract with Cloud Ten but I rejected the offer for the job because the movie was so bad and I didn't believe the company could achieve their goals of marketing mainstream Christian movies to the general public.Some trivia - the Lalondes often take character names from well known landmarks throughout Southern Ontario close to their Cloud Ten office in St.Catharines Ontario. In Revelations, they took Jeff Fahey's character name (Thorold Stone) from the street name Thorold Stone Road, in Niagara Falls. In Tribulation, they took Gary Busey's character name (Tom Canboro) from another well know street called Canboro Road which runs throughout the Niagara Region.
Worst Film Ever!!!
posted on 19 Oct 2006Do not watch this movie.I got this on DVD free in a special PS2 promotion and I am saddened that I have lost 2 hours of my life due to this film. A friend of mine didn't believe it could be as bad as I said it was and borrowed it off me. He still hasn't forgiven me.Not even worth considering if you find it in the bargain bin. In fact, if you see it on a shop shelf then RUN AWAY! As fast as you can.
Hallelujah! I've Seen The Lights! Camera! Action!
posted on 30 Aug 2004Amongst the other messages the film makers impart in their script - most of which seems to have been lifted off 'humourous' t-shirts. "I don't believe in God... Don't worry, he believes in you." that sort of thing - is the deeply nasty message that all disabled people are essentially evil. The first two people to fall under the spell of the Devil Messiah are the blind girl who has just been hanging around for no apparent reason and wheelchair bound superhacker who wrote the basic code for the evil program (and who by an amazing co incidence happens to be the half brother of the leader of the underground. Don't evil masterminds do ANY background checks on who they employ? - and why, if they are related, he has an American accent and she an English one is another mystery.) You can tell he has turned evil because he shoots his own cute little doggie. Bad cripple.Some other random jottings of how deeply stupid this movie is: What Time zone is this film set in? It's typical of American yahoo isolationism that it ignores the fact that the International Date Line is WEST of the USA. All of Asia, Europe and Australasia (ie most of the world) will have been in the Day of Wonders long before most people in the US would have had their breakfast.For the nerve centre of Satan's master plan the O.N.E. HQ was insanely understaffed. This is the Center of the New World Order for crying out loud! Surely there would be someone there undermining someone's liberty or taxing someone or telling the Black Helicopters where to go. In fact no one seemed to be there at all. Where are these 5,000 people who we are told go in and out of the building every day? Especially on this day of all days. The Biggy. Security consisted of one person on the front desk who, when as a ruse the "Most Wanted" person in the world is marched past him (and he recognises her), doesn't bat an eyelid. He just mutters "Oh good you've caught her." This is deeply stupid film making.I loved the head bad guy's over acting, every evil twitch scowl and grimace he could throw into his part he threw in. Good for him. I loved the bad lip syching of the voice they dubbed in over him. But I especially loved the scene where, amazingly, they DIDN'T dub the voice in and we heard him deliver his lines in a squeaky English accent. OK, squeaky is overdoing it, but it wasn't the deep mellow voice that was shoved in his mouth for the rest of the time.Right at the start of the film one of the happy clappies had smuggled a disc out of Evil HQ. Our bulletproof walk-through-walls baddie gets one of his sidekicks to blow up a school bus full of kids, then gets the police to follow the radio signal back to the happy clappy hide out with orders to kill everyone, while he waits about upstairs. Why didn't he go and get it himself? He seemed to have no compunction about killing anyone else he felt like for the flimsiest of reasons.I love bad movies. I really do. Most bad movies seem to be in the horror genre or science fiction, there seem to be something about those two fields that attracts incompetents with delusions of adequacy. Watching this deeply unpleasant piece of sh1t I have discovered a whole new area of crap to explore. The 'Christian' Science Fiction Horror movie.Let no one be in doubt, this is one deeply stupid, badly made, illogical piece of filth - and if you think I'm going to hell for saying that, I feel sorry for you.Best stupid line:Standing in a room full of computers.He: "We need to find another computer that's on the network!" (to replace the one their friend just shot).She: (points) "How about that one?"
Latest "Revelation": This Movie Stinks
posted on 02 Apr 2004"Revelation" ended up in my home by a fluke. Boy is someone in the doghouse for that one...it was an innocent enough mistake (with "End of Days" and other millenial thrillers out there). "Revelation" though isn't just a millenial thriller. Its a millenial thriller produced by the religious right.Okay, its hard to review "Revelation" as *just* a movie without tipping one's hand about its religious point of view. So, to be fair, fundamentalist Christians are likely to be entertained by this film. If you happen to fall into the majority of the world's population that isn't Christian, or the even larger majority that isn't *fundamentalist* Christian, you'll get a glimpse into the eerie world of apocolyptic Christian prophecy (or, even worse, a glimpse into what happens when no gay people are involved in the making of a major motion picture).Its clearly good guy/bad guy, black and white, good vs. evil (not a problem in and of itself). However, I think most people are at a loss about exactly *what* they would do if given the choice between 1) surrendering to the authority of an evil anti-christ or 2) putting up with the self-righteous banter of the films' good guys. Isn't there a door #3? What happened to all the Buddhists?An over-the-top performance from a queeny John Lithgow-wannabe playing the anti-christ's right-hand man doesn't help. Amateurish elements pop-up periodically. Real life TV televangelists show up on the television throughout the film. This is where the film becomes truly unbelievable. Instead of hitting the remote control, the characters in this film actually *watch* them! Even more unbelievably, the televangelists are on the t.v. screen for more than 30 seconds without even once hitting the audience up for cash.The "Revelation"...this movie stinks.LeeCushing
Great movie!
posted on 13 Oct 2003Intriguing plot, interesting characters, good actors, good spiritual content, good special effects...great movie! I don't know if virtual reality will be used this way in the end times, but it's possible. Its sequel, Tribulation, only gets better, but this one is great as well!
Great film, great performances!
posted on 11 Oct 2003This is what Christian films should be like. Most of them are plagued by low budgets, lousy acting, and overall campiness. This film wasn't exactly crying out for high hopes for me as I saw it in church one Sunday evening, but after watching it I was amazed at what a good job these guys did! Jeff Fahey is excellent and well-cast and the rest of the cst is just awesome. The ending cries out for yet another sequel, I cannot wait!This film is recommended to everyone!The MPAA rated this film PG-13, I believe. It is for the intense subject matter. But it is suitable for all ages.
Great idea, bad movie
posted on 06 Apr 2003I actually thought I was going to watch another movie that was supposed to be called "revelations" but I watched this anyway.It's a wonder to me how Christan movies dealing with the end of times with all the drama in the Bible can be so below average. Is it Satan that is stiffling their creativity? The message of the Rapture and the second coming has been around for ages. Best to just read the bible than to watch quarter witted movies with bad acting and bad writing. Or watch the Terminator. If the way the movie ends is supposed to be some sort of triumph, it negates the whole idea of the Rapture -- that there are still yet to be saved humans.
Great Christian Movie
posted on 28 Jan 2003This movie was pretty good for a Christian Movie. I found it very interesting yet appealing throughout the entire movie. I am a Christian but, even non Christians have found this movie to be worth watching. I didn't find it to look / feel cheap like some of the Christian movies.
Peter and Paul LaLonde have set a new Low in Christian Film!
posted on 28 Jul 2002This movie is horrible. Aside from the plot gaffes, of which there are many, the movie itself is very weak. For those of you who are not Christians, you are seriously going to be left out, since I am a deeply devout Christian, and this movie had me reeling! Many non-Christians believe that simply because it is a Christian movie, we all like it. Trust me, it's not true. I have reviewed thousands of movies. In fact, 5,698 to date (not here. I have a website.) The plotlines are sketchy, the acting is stiff and cardboard, and the incredible cheese that flows from this movie is just palpable. Peter & Paul LaLonde need to sit down and find out how a real movie is made. They need to quit watching Mighty Morphin Power Rangers for plot insight too. This has to stop. Christian movies are among the lowest rated movies in the world. Now, in the older days, we had Ben Hur & Ten Commandments, The Robe, etc. Extremely high quality huge epic productions. Ten Commandments alone had the largest cast & set at the time it was made. Now with Revelation, of course, pathetic CG effects make it sub-par.Trust me, if you are interested in studying Christianity and Christian movies, don't use this one. Or the next one, or the one before this one.
Not as bad as Left Behind or Omega Code, but still terrible!
posted on 12 Mar 2002This film is better than Omega Code and Left Behind but was still unbelievably bad. I can't believe how bad Christian filmaking is today, it's a real shame. The acting was so unbelievably bad I didn't care if the whole world was wiped out by the anti-christ or not. All the characters completely overacted especially the ones that were supposed to be really evil ones. It was laughable. Anyone who like this film should really get out more and see real movies.
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Pretty bad, sorry to say.
posted on 23 Jul 2009I am sorry to admit that I didn't think this was good at all. I'm not the target demographic, admittedly, but if not for being with my mother, I'd have walked out of this movie.
Despite an intriguing premise, the movie never really goes anywhere.
There are myriad plot holes and the acting is also some of the worst I've seen in a long time. The climax was dull and unsatisfying, and likely to offend most if not all non-Christians. Religious films can be done well, but they are definitely hit (The Exorcist, The Believers, King of Kings, Ben Hur) or miss (Exorcist II and III, Stigmata). Revelation is, unfortunately,
in the latter category. DON'T SEE IT.