Review: The Prophecy 3: The Ascent (2000)

Inevitably, the further along a franchise gets into sequeldom, the films begin picking up subTitles. The Prophecy 3 gets to be "The Ascent".

Rather than spend this entire review bemoaning the bad script, the terrible efx, the plot dumps, and the sheer dullness of the bad guy, Vincent Spano as Zophyael, I'll highlight some of the positives that can be gleaned from this film if you watch carefully enough.

The first cool thing is that the flick follows exactly the premise of the second and that Walken is now a human. He's still funny, but he's no longer the focus of the story, and the movie suffers for it. The second idea from the previous film is the character of Danyael who is the seed of the first (remember when angel Russel Wong banged human Jennifer Beals?). Dave Buzzota plays Danyael and does a good job of being confused, but not too confused.

The whole Pyriel plot is lame, and the pile of bodies that we keep getting flashbacked too gets old real quick. The film is obviously padded because of budget constraints, but if they would have just filled in with Walken footage, I'd be writing a different review.

I guess if you've watched the first two, you might as well see this one, but I hope you're not sleepy, or it'll put you to snoozin.