Surprisingly incoherent and boring

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

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.

Revelations (2005): Starring Bill Pullman, Natasha McElhone, John Rhys-Davies, Michael Masee, Mark Rendall, Martin Starr, Chelsey Coyle, Britney Coyle, James Babson, Patrick Bauchau,Alexa Nikolas, Tobin Bell, Christopher Biggins, Orla Brady, Brian Caspe....Director Lesli Linka Glatter, Screenplay David Seltzer."And the last sound shall be the boiling oceans as the sun burns"......Now that Dan Brown's quasi-religious mystery "Da Vinci Code" is taking America by storm, let's look back at other religious-themed films and television series. "Revelations" was a short miniseries on NBC starring Bill Pullman as Dr. Richard Massey, whose daughter was brutally murdered by a Satanic cult, headed by a prophet-criminal, who claims to be Lucifer or his agent, endowed with the power of being invulnerable to stabs and injury. Massey, eager to extract justice and revenge, teams up with a nun, Sister Josepha Montafiore, who convinces him that the "End Times" are near. There are signs everywhere. In South America, the shadow of a Crucified Jesus looms on a mountain but there is nothing to cast the shadow. Other miracles occur. A young girl, struck by lightning and declared brain-dead, receives messages from God, speaks in tongues and writes down maps and prophecies. John Rhys-Davies, a great but underrated actor (Indiana Jones, Sliders, Lord Of The Rings) is effective in the role of Professor Jonah Lampley, a scientist who teaches that the end of the world is dozens of years ahead, culminating with the extinction of mankind and the self-eradication of the earth when the sun finally burns out. A student asks "you talk of science, but is there no room for God ?". All these interesting issues are raised in a series that was a mystery thriller and dramatically compelling. What will happen in the end ? Is there a God ? Is there evidence ? Is it all faith ? While this series takes on the Christian/Catholic religious approach (the series ends with the birth of the Anti-Christ), it is still very human. We feel genuinely for Dr. Massey and his family. The latest victim of the Satanic cult turns out to be his own son, who is lured into this dark world through the internet by a sexy Satanist female member. As absurd as some of it can be, the series was very entertaining and the actors did not go over the top. The production values are quite good, giving the series the appearance of a film and not a TV series, much like "Lost". Filmed on location in Rome, The Vatican, Mediterrenean islands and in the U.S., the show has a vast panorama of people and events caught up in a storm, or moreover, the coming of a storm. Very well-made series and rare to find such mini series on TV nowadays.

Last night, my cable box cut out before "The L Word" - why did it have to play up during a good TV show and choose to work perfectly throughout all six hours of "Revelations"? Six hours. Six of the dullest, least invigorating hours I've ever spent in front of a television screen.Screenwriter David Seltzer went on record as not really believing in the stuff when he wrote "The Omen," but this tale of the End of Days is truly lacking in conviction from Joseph Vitarelli's clichéd choral theme onwards (whatever you might think of "The Passion of the Christ," you can't deny that Mel Gibson genuinely put his money where his mouth is); instead of being thought-provoking and chilling, the first four hours are nothing but build-up with nothing going anywhere, and when it's not teasing you it's being ridiculous (ominous supermodels dressed in black hanging around? Ooooh, scary).The miniseries also lands us with two main characters - a relentlessly serious professor and a nun who would make Mother Teresa seem like a hedonist - who simply don't register (pity Bill Pullman, if not Natascha McElhone), leaving Michael Massee as a Satanic mass-murderer to prove that the Devil gets, if not the best tunes, at least the best lines; the dire job "Revelations" does can be summed up by a failure to care when our villain, having launched the plot by kidnapping and murdering Professor Pullman's young daughter, lures his unlikeable teenage son into his clutches (by way of a webcam fronted by a Christina Aguilera-type). And any series that casts John Rhys-Davies and fails to turn his entertaining pompousness to advantage is beyond hope; though you have to give them credit for casting Christopher Biggins as a Cardinal. (What with this and Hugh Laurie in "House, M.D.," NBC Universal wins the Most Unusual Use Of British Actors Award by a mile.) Sadly, such little plusses are cancelled out by all the minuses - following the endless teasing, the last two hours try to crank up the action, but it's all for naught; and the abrupt, anticlimactic, cop-out of an ending just in case enough Bush voters tuned in to make an ongoing series viable will irritate the converted and atheists alike. (Fortunately, US audiences tuned out in droves from hour one onwards, meaning that the story will never be either drawn out endlessly or continued. No wonder they say "God bless America.") For a truly powerful look at the Apocalypse coming to pass today, see "The Rapture" - "Revelations" is not only not as effective as "The Omen," but it's not even "Omen IV: The Awakening." If nothing else, this does prove once and for all that when it comes to standing in for other countries, the Czech Republic is the Canada of Europe.Father, forgive Stillking Films, Pariah and NBC Enterprises, for they know not what they do.

Very disappointing!! It would've been nice if the writer had tried to write a script that actually used the the probable meanings of things mentioned in the Book Revelations of the Bible. Instead he went out of his way to make up things that would actually mislead some people who never read or understood what the actual book of Revelations said. I also wonder if he has ever read the actual Book Of Revelations from the Bible.I saw it as a rehash of some of his earlier work. Maybe if it had been called "Looking for the Signs of Revelations" or "Is This The End Times" or something like that, it would've been more believable. I hope someone would come out with a movie or mini-series that would actually deserve the title that was used. So, basically, I ask the writer," what was the point of this story?"

I realize that "Revelations" just a story, and that its producers have every right to "spin" it however they wish. However, as a devout Christian, I wish they had made the story more scripturally accurate (Lord knows the true Book of Revelations is exciting enough AS IS.). The reason I feel this way is, this show might be the only "church" some viewers will ever attend, and they might come to believe that the whole idea of Christ coming a second time as a child (rather than as a conquering King) and other aberrations in the storyline are Biblically true; thus, confusing them and leading them down a wrong path. John 14:6 says, 'Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."' If that is true, as Christians believe it to be, then the goal of all religious-themed programming should be to lead others to Christ as He has revealed Himself through the scriptures. Either tell the truth as written, or stay away from the subject matter altogether! If I were a famous person (which I'm not), and someone were to televise a biographical account of my life, I'd want it to be accurate, not just Hollywood "fluff."