OK, say it with me: ITS JUST A MOVIE! Anyway, i thought it was freaky, but good! Its made for our entertainment, and i don't hear anyone giving Edward Furlong any kind of recognition, because he did a good job, And By the way, DAMN, Edward Furlong looked hot. Never thought he was very cute, but WOW, he had that evil sexiness going on! Now, of course i live somewhere where i would never, never see him, but if i ever did, i would definitely say that he does not get enough recognition, and regardless of the comments for this movie, it made me DEFINITELY want to see him more. Yumm, yumm! OK, any y the hell do we have to write so much on this thing before it will post your comment, i mean good gravy i wrote a freaken paragraph here!

Based on the excellent drama-horror book by Frank Peretti, this movie was more like a twisted, rewritten version done for film.The story was reworked and exposition was changed, characters changed, until the master screenwriter came up with something more fitting for today's Hollywood- in other words the end results was cliché, badly cut, and dramatic in all the wrong places. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a B movie, it was better than most B movies I've seen. More like a B+ or an A-.The editing and film style resemble a two hour long episode of CSI without the forensics- and CSI fans will notice that the cast is pretty much an entire ensemble of CSI extras.In the end, its like they say, the book is always better. In this case the movie could have been just as good, but they decided to make it overly dramatic and hackneyed with little real character development and evolution.Frank Peretti, I give you 2 thumbs up. Movie, you only get a tiny little knubby knuckle up.

This is a cut above a lot of the movies of this genre.... call them "Omanesque." They usually fall into one of two categories: Some defrocked priest is confronted by the devil and is reborn....or The whole thing is just a big hoax and the devil-likes are nothing but clever cons. I was afraid, for some time, that this movie was going to fall into the latter category. It didn't. But it didn't fall completely into the drivel that usually occurs when the "lost one" discovers a biblical god again. Close. The special effects were pretty good. The plot had some holes but not as big as a lot of these movies. No jumping cats out of closets with the attendant crash of cymbals. Drama level was high and the interest in the primary characters is also...unlike so many, when you feel like, "oh, who cares? Let 'em go to the devil." I had genuine empathy for our hero and heroine. My only problem with the whole category is that I think it re-enforces the idea that if some statuary starts weeping...it's a miracle! And god will save the sinner. Life is a little more complex than that.

At the first sight, this is a thriller/horror movie. At least this is what some say about it. Yet, after I saw the beginning, I thought it's rather a religious movie, as the healings depicted are made quite seriously. So I told "ok, here is a religious movie". However, the initially-good guy turns to be evil, while only a couple of persons are able to see that. In the end, some strong Christians are able to show the little town that the healer is not of God, but from Satan. The followers of the faked Messiah are in fact possessed and eventually delivered from evil through the prayers of a Pentecostal preacher. No, don't imagine anything commercial or Robertson-like about it! The scenes are simple and truelike. So I can say this is a Christian movie. My faith has been strenghtened and I recommend the movie to all Christians.