Review: The Prophecy 2 (1998)

I've never read nor heard anything positive about this film except for "Walken was great!", and I'm not about to reverse that trend. Obviously, the idea didn't appeal to the creator of the original, Gregory Widen, because he has nothing to do with this straight-to-video release.

The concept of Prophecy 2 seems to be to recast the original film a bit, and have Walken kick enough ass to keep viewers interested. And, really, that's just about all that gets accomplished. Walken is still funny and mean. Russell Wong is ok as the good angel, but Jennifer Beals delivers here lines in a stupid shrill that is consistently annoying. Supposedly Glenn Danzig is Samyael, but you can hardly tell, and even if you could, so what?

Instead of just refrying the first plot, they stir it up a bit, and the end result is a confused mess that builds up to a dull climax. Eric Roberts lends his poor acting abilities to the final third of the film and ends up getting the best of Walken, and that's always gonna be a bad thing. I'd rather see Roberts get impaled by something, or blown up, or flayed, or anything really.

I'd avoid this one, unless like me, you are some sort of weird movie completist, who likes to drown in stupid sequels.