https://www.scene-stealers.com/columns/overlooked-movie-monday/the-prophecy-movie-review-1995/ Movie Reviews That Rock Sun, 18 Jul 2021 03:12:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 https://www.scene-stealers.com/columns/overlooked-movie-monday/the-prophecy-movie-review-1995/#comment-385753 Sat, 22 Oct 2016 17:34:13 +0000 http://www.scene-stealers.com/?p=23949#comment-385753 Viggo’s Lucifer is, without a doubt, the best performance of any Satan, Lucifer, the Devil (as Pacino’s Satan said in, ‘The Devil’s Advocate,’ “I have so many names…”), Mephistopholes, etc., in film history. Despite a mere few minutes of screen time, the film would’ve been MUCH less appealing without HIM in that particular character. Not so much scary as…philosophically & theologically accurate given the film’s premise. Fortunately, the writer/director didn’t overuse the Viggo Mortensen character of Lucifer. His relatively short screen time would have diluted the strength of his performance, perhaps irretrievably. I just saw the film again after many years on Cinemax.

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