This movie lacked almost everything. First of all the cinematography was too irritating.. They have mixed the concepts of purgatory and real world.. Acting was too weak and the action was intolerable.. If you want to watch something resembling the concept of this movie then watch the TV Series "Supernatural" and decide for yourself.. I am sure you'll like it. As far as this movie is concerned, don't waste your time. There are not many nice movies about angels but this one wins the prize for worst. The costumes, makeup, scenery, story, acting, animation, action.. everything was too hard to bear.. As i have said before, if u want to watch something good on this concept then watch "Supernatural", specially 4th and 5th season.

I came to this because it was Australian, a first film and supposedly risky. It has been some time since a young Australian filmmaker has affected me, and I always put then toward the top of the list.This, dear friends is simply some yelling. It is no "Ink."But it got me wondering. Movies are all about satisfying urges. Well, everything is, but the tokens are explicitly here for you to see. But the constraints of the medium and market morph those urges. So what you see is not what you wanted, but what you can get. Over time, you build this dissonance because you live in the world created by constraints.Here is what I mean. We all wonder about how the world works. So we want cosmologies in our art, grand organizing principles. We want to know what the rules are. So we have stories with grand conspiracies, or mythical worlds with an order, usually bad and good. Or even just a guy with super powers or abilities who wins because he is attuned in a world where justice flows.But the medium has only a few human activities that are cinematic. One of these is fighting, especially with guns and knives. If you are making a movie on the cheap, you'll have to forgo the standard fireball explosions, usually with the hero walking away slowly.As a result, we end up with bizarre situations where cosmological forces are shoved into fight movies. This is not the worst example; I saw this with "TMNT," but it is pretty obvious because the movie itself is so unrewarding.Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.

Australian Dark Fantasy-SciFi movie in which Good and Evil fight it out in the sprawling slums of Purgatory for the souls of those awaiting judgment. On the side of the Light is Gabriel. Fighting for Team Darkness is Sammael. Necessity is the mother of invention. Like George Miller with 'Mad Max', Abbess is forced by a minuscule budget to rely on strong storytelling, creative design, and superior performances to craft his movie. And while the results may not have the long lasting influence of Miller's work, they are astonishing. The movie possesses a striking visual richness thanks to the work of a talented designer and cinematographer, and just as Mel Gibson stood out in 'Mad Max', so Andy Whitman stalks through 'Gabriel' with real A-list charisma. The film is not without its faults: while the story is strong, the screenplay itself is structurally sloppy and has some serious pacing issues; head demon, Sammael, looks like the lead singer in a 'Ramones' tribute band; and the rooftop climax is an unapologetic shot-for-shot remake of 'Blade Runner'. The presence of a character with bleach-blond dreadlocks forces the deduction of yet another point. They looked ridiculous in 'Matrix'; they look ridiculous here. Yet despite these misgivings, there is something undeniably infectious about the passion and commitment that everyone brings to the project. Personally, I can't wait for the sequels.

This movie looks great and everyone on the film needs to be commended for doing such a bang up job with so little money. Its good that Sony took the punt and threw some money in to finish the visual effects because it would have made this ambitious project so much lesser for it without all those finishing touches. To that end you can say that this isn't really a low budget film - not by Australian standards if the rumor of a 5 million injection from Sony is true. My big gripe about this film though is that it could have gone somewhere bad ass but apart from looking cool it pretty much spins its wheels the whole time. This could have been a bad ass angel kill kill kill film but there ends up being lots and lots of talking instead and a few inventive but quick action scenes. But if you're an Aussie buy it because these guys deserve to get their due.