Best movie ever!

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

The seventh sign A cute little horror film. A good film to learn more about the book of Revelations and to reunite with Christianity and its teaching's. In the movie, John Heard who plays a reverend says that the end of times is not a grocery list. And, the movie represents the end of times as a grocery list that needs to be ticked off each time a sign is shown. What makes it a good film is the use of flashbacks that define who the characters are such as Abby Quinn (Demi More) who is the reincarnation of Seraphia, David Bannon (Jurgen Prochnow) representing Jesus. In addition, the ending is not expected. When Abby is shot, and falls to the ground, the viewer doesn't expect Jimmy Szaragosa (John Taylor) to be killed thus making the Apocalypse inevitable. When rushed to the hospital, Abby sacrifices herself to save her child in order to save the world. As the Apocalypse is beginning, Abby was rushed to the hospital as if nothing was truly happening in the outside world. Indeed, a hard core of sceptics I may say. Finally, when Abby is confronted with the choice of self sacrifice she accepts it. I believe that during all the centuries after the death of Jesus, she must of had an unappeased soul. She had now the choice to redeem herself. When, in a flashback, she sees and says she would not die for this man, the feeling of guilt over the centuries was a heavy burden and this time confronts her past. To conclude,soon or later, we all have to deal with our dragons. How we will deal with them is a mystery until confronted with.

Around the world, the signs of the apocalypse -- as outlined in the Book of Revelation -- seem to be coming to pass in the wake of a mysterious wanderer. Father Lucci, the Vatican Emissary assigned to investigate, dismisses the occurrences as natural, but Abby Quinn, a young American woman, has reason to fear they're real -- and that the unfolding events may spell disaster for her unborn child.This is a fantastic thriller that uses some pseudo-biblical foundations. A bit like "The Prophecy", and much like "Ninth Gate"... it may spark an interest in the Bible. Is it all accurate? Well, maybe not. But still makes for a great story.This also happens to be one of the better Demi Moore films ever made. I do not think she was ever quite A-list, but more of a solid B-list, and often defined by her husband. But in this film she really gives her all.

Another one of those apocalyptic end of the world movies with symbolic signs from the bible. While this has what is an interesting plot, it is done in a way that leaves a lot of holes - the main one being is why Demi Moore's character of Abby is chosen to be one of the signs in what could be the end of the world.Moore gives a decent performance in this but it isn't enough to really make this film remarkable or very engaging, perhaps because the suspense is a bit lacking, though the visual effects were pretty good and the scenes of destruction really created that mood of a world coming down on itself. However, the plot sort of goes into territory that makes it seem a bit too surreal for its own benefit and not enough backstory is really given into the biblical references in my opinion to make it really connect strongly enough to it.I think the film forgets that sometimes more quiet scenes or a lead up to the climax is often where you pull the punches emotionally with a film and I could sort of see the ending coming in a way with how it turned out. But the message of the film - if they are trying to give one didn't sink in as strongly as it could have - perhaps because it relies on the frailty and flaws of humanity - it isn't properly explored as it could have been.

Abby Quinn (Demi Moore) is a polite, caring, young woman. Which she's married to a hard-working lawyer (Michael Biehn) and Abby is also expecting her first child. But then an mysterious stranger by the name of David (Jurgen Prochnow) comes to rent their studio apartment. But Abby slowly realized that David isn't what he seems to be and David is actually an avenging angel bringing seven signs of the Apocalyspe to come.Directed by Carl Schultz made an intriguing supernatural thriller with strong performances by Moore and especially Prochnow. This slick looking production has an terrific, haunting music score by Oscar-Winner:Jack Nitzsche (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Stand by Me, Starman) and great looking cinematography by Juan Ruiz Anchia (Glengarry Glen Ross, The Jungle Book, Spartan).The original DVD has an sharp anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1) transfer (also in Pan & Scan) and an good Dolby 2.0 Surround Sound. This film was an box office disappointment in the spring of 1988. But it somewhat went on to be a Cult Classic. "The Seventh Sign" is slow-moving at times but it's occasionally eerie and unexpectedly touching as well. "The Seventh Sign" may not be the greatest supernatural thriller of all time but it's certainly better and smarter than most. Panavision. (****/*****).