Rating: R
Genre:
Horror
Release Date: 02/09/1999
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: 2
Run Time: 97 Minutes
Flags: Graphic Violence
Distributor/Studio: Dimension
The directorial debut from
Highlander screenwriter
Gregory Widen stars
Christopher Walken as the angel
Gabriel, who, fed up with God giving all of his attention to humans, decides to stage a sort of coup. With plans of killing all of the good angels,
Gabriel decides to enlist the help of a recently deceased and inhumanly malevolent army general. In order to prevent
Gabriel from obtaining the help of the vicious Korean War vet, good angel
Simon (
Eric Stoltz) stashes the general's soul in an unsuspecting young Native American girl named
Mary (
Moriah Snyder). As
Gabriel gets closer to finding
Mary, an ex-seminary-student-turned-cop and a school teacher, played by
Elias Koteas and
Virginia Madsen, team together to protect her. Meanwhile,
Satan (
Viggo Mortensen) enters into the mix, concerned over the implications the heavenly war may have on his dominion. Later spawning a series of sequels,
The Prophecy was released in the U.K. under the title
God's Army.
~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide