Doomsday Prophecy

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I don't know if SciFi had any involvemnt, but it's akin those end-of-world flicks. I happen to really like Jewel Staite, so I may have overrated it. It's a cookie cutter plot with the scientist and civilian that are vested with saving the world. They face uncertainly, lack of direction, and in surmountable odds in saving the Earth. Plus there are misguided ,malicious and powerful elements in the US Govt bent on stopping them. David and Goliath repeat. Production quality is par for the course for a TV movie, but finesse elements like score, special effects are on a meager budget. But they pull it off to make it watchable, at least for me. And of course, I get to watch Jewel.

Decently written, very entertaining disaster movie that overall is very different to all the other disaster flicks that I have watched. Somewhat shoddy animation and special effects at times, the ending is somewhat cheesy and unbelievable, but still enjoyable. The acting is pretty good - especially on Jewel Staite's (Brooke) part - but generally nothing much to speak of. Didn't see the point in the villain. Bonus points for being the first disaster movie that I have seen with zero romance in it whatsoever. Overall, a very good, entertaining disaster movie that I recommend watching.

A mysterious clairvoyant provides Brooke (Jewel Staite from 'Firefly') and Eric Fox (AJ Buckley, an actor previously unknown to me) with instructions how to save the world from a dark star: they have to find those grumpy looking stone-heads from Easter Island - in Canada, because they don't have time to travel to the SE Pacific Ocean anymore. To ensure nothing can go wrong, someone scribbled a note on a stone - and hid it in the forest 26,000 years ago. The two heroes are chased by agents who realize their mission doesn't make any sense, but by then, it's almost too late to save the world... with a small stick. Seriously. There are 2 kinds of lousy disaster movies: the bad, boring ones, and the ones which are so bad they become funny. This is a funny one, and I definitely wasn't bored watching it. I wouldn't worry about the special effects as much as the other reviewers, it's TV documentary, not cinema, but you can't expect more for low budget. Instead, I'd rather wonder why actors don't read the script first. If you can't believe any of this actually could happen, that's a bad start compared to disaster movie classics about earthquakes, climate changes or sinking ships.

The CGI was decent, but the acting was horrible. And the plot was all over the place.

Yep, it's another shot-in-Canada disaster flick, produced by the SyFy Channel and replete with absolutely terrible CGI effects and little else besides. Even by the standards of the sub-genre this is a lousy flick with very few redeeming qualities to recommend it. The story sees an archaeologist and a scientist team up when the world starts being destroyed by earthquakes after the 2012 Mayan prophecy. Luckily, they have a videotape borrowed from a psychic guy who predicted all of the events before his death. They go on the run with a mysterious artifact that may somehow save mankind, all the while pursued by aggressive soldiers who want to see them dead. And that's all the plot you're going to get with this one, because DOOMSDAY PROPHECY is a low budget film indeed. There are a few CGI effects scattered through the production, typically involving earthquakes tearing the ground apart, but for the most part this is an interminable chase flick with a couple of dull characters being stalked through the woods by boring villains. Alan Dale, aka NEIGHBOURS's Jim Robinson, is the only guy I recognised in this mess and his role is a very limited one. Next please.

In northern Bulgaria, researchers are puzzled by a strange series of "earthquake clusters." They are more dead than puzzled when an earthquake strikes their own little group. Over in New York City, publishing house proofreader A.J. Buckley (as Eric Fox) discusses a doomsday prophecy just before an earthquake strikes. Up in Mount Rainier, Washington, blonde archaeologist Jewel Staite (as Brooke Calvin) pooh-poohs prophecy. She is in for a rude awakening. It appears as if Armageddon is underway. Because they are the co-stars, Mr. Buckley and Ms. Staite are meant to team-up and save the planet. If they don't, the planet may not be saved... The otherworldly villain is a "Dark Star" with powers like a black hole. In reality, the world would end quickly and without fake earthquakes. Buckley and Staite are assisted by a magic rod given to Buckley. The magic rod enables him to see into the future – in a story about the end of the world, seeing the future is always encouraging. They meet wise old Native American Indian Gordon Tootoosis (as John). Interesting how Indians began their movie career as savages out to rape white women and now appear as helpful elders with near supernatural wisdom. The mission is to find some magical statues. "Doomsday Prophesy" is sheer nonsense. ** Doomsday Prophecy (8/13/11) Jason Bourque ~ A.J. Buckley, Jewel Staite, Bruce Ramsay, Alan Dale

Yet another doomsday movie that fails miserably at trying to put a new spin on the end of the world. For starters, this is based on an alignment with Sagittarius A, which has already happened in '98, and how it would end all life on Earth, again which happened in 1998. Anywho, I actually have no problem with this turd being based on that. It's science fiction, so it's suppose to be complete and utter bulls***. What I do have a problem with is just about how nothing in this entire movie works. The acting is simply terrible. The special effects are just embarrassing. Everything about this turd is just plain stupid. The bad thing is, I've read some good reviews on this POS, which is why I decided to give it a go. Now, it has become quite clear that the only people that could've written any of those were involved with making this 90 minute waste of life. Seriously, unless you are threatened with acid burns to the scrotum if you don't watch this, don't watch this. Hell..., halfway through this turd, a burnt ball sack may not sound all that bad to ya.

This was a bad movie made even worse by the lack of care and continuity. AJ Buckley plays a character called Eric Fox. However, in a scene in an SUV, he holds onto the door handle displaying a tattoo on the inside of his left wrist that plainly says "Joe." Now, either AJ (Joe) Buckley has the tattoo and someone missed it (make-up person and/or continuity person!?) or the character's left wrist is called "Joe" or the character has a thing for someone called "Joe." This is about typical for this movie. which did not ask us to just suspend our disbelief but also our credulity. Oh yeah . . . the SFX were shamefully cheap and hokey.

I like AJ (CSI: NY) Buckley, and I like Jewel (Firefly/Serenity) Staite. But I must be honest, SyFy movies generally don't impress me much, and this is another one to add to the list. This story about an artefact which is necessary in order to save the world from apocalyptic disaster, the efforts of our two protagonists to put the rescue into effect, and the efforts of certain nutjob factions to prevent them, is utterly routine. The special effects, when they come, are clearly low budget, but not bad for all that. The problem is how can you take seriously a movie where the disasters leading up to the destruction of the world - where we should be awestruck at the destruction, showing us what is at stake - takes place at the other end of a telephone call, or on a TV where we see the back of the set?