Interpreting the ultimate Armagedden sourcebook of all time, this partly fictional account combines quality actors and a pretty good script along with award winning photography and special effects that hold up even in 2015.Michael York brings a Shakesperean depth to his role of Ultimate Bad Guy...the Antictheist. The seemingly Wonderful Peace Bringing leader whose mask soon comes off...and reveals him as a satanically possessed world leader!Michael Biehn is his brother who will ultimately stand against his evil brother. yes it echoes Cain and Abel!The sourcebook is the Bible...This film builds an entertaining story around the hints God provides in the ultimate sourcebook for how it will all end...and begin anew...the Bible...

So tonight I watched this movie for a lack of alternative evening endeavours or bearable programmes; more out of sheer boredom, to be honest. Wile my boredom wouldn't fade away - and I was waiting for that to happen, as I expected this to be an action inspired movie about the end of times, particularly given the cast -, this most terrible movie gradually turned most hilarious.The acting is over the top as if even the actors couldn't take this effort seriously, the special effects remind me of late 90s CGI as one would find it in the animated sequences of role-playing adventure games, and the director obviously has never heard about dramatisation or narration. Suspending disbelief won't help you with this movie; the great arc of the Book of Revelations has been rendered a mess; and the Antichrist is about as terrifying as Tinky-Winky, the teletubby. That means you won't find anything frightening about him at all, and moreover he is neither a deceitful nor evil nor smart, just a hoax of devil.The love story is soddingly dry, and while there is emphasis, there is little empathy. I was hoping that somewhere, somehow, by God's intervention perhaps, suspense would emerge in this movie; but the final scenes just stayed as uninspired as the rest of the film. The end felt particularly like a cop-out - a sudden intervention by God, that and who never was indicated before, a classic deus ex machina, that was no salvation, just dodgy mechanics - and BOOM! the movie's over.There is no doubt that this film had an enormous budget; it's sad to see that this was used to no avail. Well, that's not true: It shows a hideous mixture of hooray patriotism (US), xenophobia and prejudice (towards UN and EU) and a caricature of Christianity, i.e. an appalling lack of understanding about anything as regards the nature of politics, religion or faith.In the end this movie was just so bad, that it was most hilarious to watch the actors (and CGI characters) stumble from one mess into another. I asked myself for whom but fundamentalist Christians such pretense of film had been produced - I did so jokingly, and it amazes me, shocks me, that this audience really accepts such sorry waste of time. This film is not worth your time, rather read in the Revelations.

Although this movie had it's faults, I find it refreshing from other movies that are filled with bad language and nudity. I find it disturbing that so many of the people who have commented show such a loathing of anything that relates to God. They will find a way to criticize anything that has to do with religion. Yet, they will endure other films with no moral fabric at all without comment. I do hope that TBN will continue to make films -whether they are perfect or not. It's a decent film with decent special effects. The actors did a fine job also. There are a lot of Christians in the United States who will support these films. Another film that was maligned by several but was outstanding was Joshua. If you want a decent film with no nudity nor bad language, view it also.

This terrible mess of a movie plays like the wet dream of your average American christian fundamentalist. It is about two brothers, one who becomes head of the EU and UN (read Antichrist), the other who becomes president of the good ol' USA and plans to kick his brother's unholy arse (sorry I mean ass) back to hell. Along the way they happen to fall in love with the same woman who is a stunner when she's young, but ends up looking like Cecilia Bartoli as she grows older - well you know what they say about Italian girls and their mothers.For a film about the Devil and Armageddon, Megiddo is not in the least bit frightening (unlike The Omen, which quite literally put the fear of god into me). Michael York is more annoying than threatening as the wise-cracking Antichrist.What baffles me is how they were able to get a B-movie cast for this Z-grade turkey - I mean are Michael York and Michael Biehn so hard up for cash that they need to degrade themselves in a film like this? What's worse is that the production values are quite high so there are no crappy special effects to laugh at.It's not all bad news though. The incomparable Udo Kier plays the part of the Devil's right hand man (who else). R Lee Ermey is a hoot as the straight talking US president and brings back fond memories of his role as the drill sergeant in Full Metal Jacket.