Metacritic reviews

Mixing one of B horror’s lamest clichés (the failed priest-turned-cop character) with an innovative plot device (a long-missing chapter from the Bible), The Prophecy is an old-fashioned thriller with art-house pretensions.

Good ideas. Average film.

As it is, the movie never quite delivers on the Big Idea, but at least Walken comes through in spades: he's out of this world.

For all its goofiness, director Widen has made a film with some genuinely creepy moments.

Though the actor (Walken) does little more than stroll through the film, he creates such an immediate sense of electricity that everyone else seems dim by comparison. Angels, devils or cops, they just aren't in his league.

It's not your usual story line, but Widen makes it sufficiently plausible; unfortunately, the film's fireworks ending isn't as subtle or spooky as the rest of the movie.

Widen gets an “A” for ambition here, but by the end of the whole shebang, you really couldn't care less.

Angels have proliferated in popular culture in such profusion lately that maybe they needed a comeuppance. A few more movies like The Prophecy should stop the whole celestial bandwagon right in its tracks.

This is a bad movie with a good sense of humor.

The Prophecy is an occult freakshow so inert it seems to have been pasted together out of stock footage.