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So, given the low budget the effects were tolerable and the acting was ok. The writers really missed an opportunity to share the Good News with the audience. Neither God, nor Jesus are mentioned, only a reference of Him. If a non-believer watches this they might not get the reference. Again, a missed opportunity. A "tree" is talked about and shown, I'm not sure if this is suppose to be the Tree of Life from Genesis, or the cross. Blood is also mentioned, but again I'm not sure if this is referring to the blood that Christ shed for all. I do appreciate that the writers showed how the occult will lead to demonic influence and manifestations. As for the demons using the Lord's name in vain, scripture tells us that demons tremble when they hear the name of God, or Jesus. Something else could have been said instead. Obviously scripture wasn't used in the writing since there are blatant fallacies. I was looking forward to a Christian film, but watched a Sci-fi/ fantasy instead. I pray that if anyone is wanting more they turn to the Bible and don't take this as facts. God bless

I have a weird thing for Christian genre movies. I enjoy a large dose of mediocre art mixed with self righteousness and problematic logic. But this movie beat me. I got about an hour through. I survived the sermons about having babies. I enjoyed the sad spiritual warfare cgi. This movie was just painful. I watch genre movies, not family dramas set in living rooms. It wasn't the Christianity that got me. Or the lack of quality. Or the baby sermons. It was the Hallmark channel feel that half of the movie had. I couldn't do it.

My wife and I didn't make it more than halfway through. Terrible lighting, one actress' face is a solid shadow while the other has a shiny glare on her forehead! Atrocious acting; telegraphing lines, stiff movement, awkward pauses, etc. Some of the CGI was sub par, but most was brilliant. The plot was thin, a worn out story told to death... I just can't find much to say about this film that's positive.

Not even one of the characters made you feel any sort of empathy. It's tough to identify with a character who is wooden and unnatural. The first half of the movie seems bent on pushing the message that all couples must breed. I understand this is a faith based film, but come on! Why push this agenda in a film made for entertainment!

In summary, Don't waste your time on this one!

I love this movie. One of the biggest lies told and used throughout this movie was I sent believe in this stuff, it's not real. That is the biggest and best lie demonic forces hope we believe. People often call us uneducated which is totally not the case. I do hold a college degree. I am an avid historian. So the question remains if you are wrong what will you lose but if I'm wrong, what will I lose? So you see, I do believe and I do believe in the power and blood of Jesus. Just like the movie however, no one will go against your free will. Just please dont put down those who do have faith. As Christians true Christians would never put you down for your beliefs. We may not think they are right, but would never belittle you and call you uneducated. FREE WILL IS A GOD-GIVEN GIFT. HE WONT MAKE U BELIEVE BUT ONE DAY EVERY EYE WILL SEE.

This movie could have had potential. The premise is potentially interesting, if you like good vs evil semi-religious yet psychological drama. Sadly, this movie is mostly one half unsubtle Christian Fundy brainwashing, and one half fear mongering. That combined with some of the worst acting, and terrible dialog ever seen and heard lead you through a lackluster and completely uninteresting movie. It has uneven special effects (Seriously, one second it looks almost as good as Sin City, the next it looks like 60's era Dr Who stick figure effects), with the most unimaginative cringe worthy unbelievable fake movie fighting known to man. But wait - there's more! You have really awful transitions, hackneyed plot, incomprehensible segues between scenes in and out of time, leading to the typical sort of finale that only the small fear controlled mind of the Fundy could appreciate, or like. In short, you really want that 98 minutes of your life back if you can get it. Christian Fundy garbage at it's absolute worst.

This is a Christian Propaganda movie.

In addition, its also a terrible movie.. really bad!

It would be interesting to hear where money to this movie came from. And in addition, also, as the actors seem not to have any training, and no passion for acting whatsoever, what their regular occupation is.

Perhaps they work for a Christian Propaganda Company?

I guess, only God knows!

This film was not true to biblical account, had robot-like acting, bleeped out the word "hell" but let the name of God be taken in vain repeatedly. I viewed this video on pureflix, and I'm totally disappointed that they would include this film in their line up. Waiting to hear back from them. The film lacked a foundation strong enough to build a story on. It falls into no genre because it lacks any credible acting or truth. So disappointing!

...and I like to watch anything that freaks out the christians. Good times; arrogant pillocks think they have the right to own the world. lol

This is a great Christian-led movie for the whole family to enjoy. It conveys a deep message and open viewers' eyes to the spiritual world. Unfortunately, Christian related activities (i.e. music, videos, etc.) are no longer popular publicly. Since new campaigns have been endorsed to terminate Christianity and bring rise to the co-existence of all religions, Christian events may no longer be exhibited or promoted at large-- as it may be offensive to other cultural backgrounds and religious affiliations. Having said that, Christianity must now find a new way to captivate the eyes and ears of all peoples -- especially those who are not believers. What I like the most about this movie is that it wisely describes Christianity in a subtle way. One may not hear the word, "Jesus," but he or she will surely hear: "The blood, the tree of life, the bleeding tree" -- symbolism conveying "Christ." All in all, I love this film and would love to see more movies like it.

Sometimes the truth is black and white. This movie is entertaining and has some really good special effects but there are some real flaws that hamper it. If you understand this was written from a fundamentalist Christian viewpoint you can forgive its narrow view of reality and enjoy the movie for the angel battle scenes alone. I thought the actors were competent and entertaining too.

However, the author presents the practice of divination as evil and a gateway to other evils. Many non-fundamentalist families, students of history and the occult would disagree with this narrow and fear-dominated approach to understanding man's interest in and practice of actual divination. I'm sure the author imagines the people who watch this movie will be Christians and who better to deceive with his paranoia about other systems of spirituality. I agree with the author that fear can be very damaging, but beyond that, the movie bases its premise on the uneducated fundamentalist Christian world-view. As usual, fundamentalist Christians see no other path but their own and fear everything else.

If "Divination" is Christian propaganda, than I guess "A Dark Song" is super propaganda for Ordo Templi Orientis. Of course, I don't believe either are necessarily propaganda, I'm just making a point. When a film is about something you don't like just scream "PROPAGANDA" and "FUNDAMENTALISM" to discredit it! Works like magic, or so you would think Atheist think. To further address this point before I get into my review: This film represents NOTHING about real fundamentalism, but atheist love to use that word as a "win all battles" weapon, sorry, you lose.

This film, if you are an actual Christian, isn't at all Christian. While it contains many themes borrowed from the Bible, it make no mention of the Bible, God, Jesus, or salvation. The closest it comes is an entity called "The Perfect One", but outside of mentioning the creation of angels, it really doesn't resemble anything from the Bible. Whereas "A Dark Song" literally goes painstaikingly through a REAl Allestair Crowley Ritual. My point is, don't call something something it isn't just because it contains themes you are uncomfortable with. As a real Christian I find "Divination" repugnant on multiple levels, simply because it spits on the Bible just as much as "A Dark Song" does. It borrows heavily from "This Present Darkness" by Frank Peretti. Pentacostals love to use Frank Peretti's book as a jumping off point for spritual warfare and it has FAR more in common with that book than the Bible.

I found this to be a relatively well-done low-budget supernatural drama regarding the battle between good and evil. I think the beliefs put forth in it are utter hogwash, and certainly this does not, as already stated, resemble anything close to real and orthodox Christianity. In reality, Christians cannot see the supernatural realm like some people claim, such as: Mike Bickle, Bob Jones, Cindy Jacob, Benny Hinn, etc, etc, and FYI none of those represent genuine Christinity, they represent the NAR or WoF teachings, that's it.

I actually felt the dialog in here was somewhat realistic, the problem was, much of the acting as very wooden. The best acting came from those playing Jason, Joshua, and Dee. Lisa Coronado as Dee probably had the best acting overall, and she has the longest resume of anyone on this film, so I think that bolsters that.

Unfortunately the direction is dull, the camera work is dull, and the editing is just not great. There are a whole lot of confusing cuts and confusing dialog early in this film, particularly revolving around The bald guy and the blonde character, her involvement with other characters and the primary plot seems to be there, but its not.

The fight seems while interesting, are sometimes a bit cheesy due to the effects overlaying the scenes, the best fight seen involves the least effects and while performed a bit wooden, the actually choreography is pretty decent, coming from someone who knows martial arts, I thought it was not bad.

On the whole, this is NOT a Christian movie, and it absolutely not fundamentalist in any way shape or form, and though it certainly has a good versus evil theme, and is not positive about the occult, it does not contain anything explicitly Christian. Even many New Agers believe in angels and demons, that isn't exclusive to Christians. If that bugs you go watch "A Dark Song" instead, that movie has some equally cheesy moments, and was equally convoluted at times, even though it's a better film. I only bring that movie up to make a point that the primary arguments made against this film are silly and baseless. Its not a bad film for what it is, and the script is honestly pretty good, it just isn't as well executed as it could be.

God Bless ~Amy

Now i decided to watch this movie with low expectations, and i was right to assume that this movie would be absolutely pure hot garbage. this movie gave me an std, that's how bad it was! the graphics, the acting, the camera angles!!! in the words of flight " what you doing hold the angles right 🐬🐬🐬" they did the listen to flight. but i think the worse thing about this movie was the lead actress' forehead, my god was that thing huge!! it distracted me the whole movie, but not enough i was steal able to pay attention to the disgusting neck hairs on the lead actor. the movie is so bad i don't even know the characters names!! moral of the story, don't be white

I don't know what is more entertaining, reading all of these hilarious reviews or the actual movie. We'll never get our 98 minutes back. OMG it was so bad. It had a few good lines but it really may be the worst movie I've ever seen. They really missed the whole Christian movie thing by not even mentioning Jesus or God. And the CGI was just a whirlwind of complete and total craziness. I felt like I was high while watching this but unfortunately I was just experiencing this bad movie. I will say I made it to the ending but honestly there was no redeeming quality at the end. I really do give every movie a fair shot and we watched it cause we are interested in the whole spiritual warfare concept however this movie missed the mark again and a again. Seriously hard to watch, especially during the CGI fight scene that literally felt like a 60s Dr Who scene. The only reason I gave it 2 stars is because I made it to the ending lol.

These kind of films always walk a fine line between opening up the eyes of those who want to see, and shutting up these of those who do not believe.

For those who wish to see, and are spiritually-inclined, it is a film from where you can extract the ounce from the pound and see!

I believe...

This film is for OPEN MINDED people, those who really do question why things happen, coupled with the understanding that 'We are not alone.", that the physical world is not all there is to 'life'.

What amazed me about the story line is that it provided a 'real world' example of how people who believe themselves to be 'open minded', but very secular minded politically, however also believing in a general form of 'spirituality', end up experiencing things that a 'generic spirituality' cannot explain.

These folks usually believe that ANY spirituality is a good thing, so long as Jesus is not mentioned, or the Bible, unless comments about either are in some form derogatory.

This film asks many questions of such people, and the answers are not comforting to them; because the film proves that by worldly standards, it is 'ok' to hate people who follow Jesus.

The fine script writing does this without mentioning Jesus, or the Bible, even once: the writers did it by noting books and beliefs CONTRARY to biblical Christianity, and emphasized the popular mindset of 'believe in anything, because 'whatever' you believe, it will be right for you'.

Acting is really good, foreshadowing is good, CGI (Computer Graphics) is superb, and all of it fits together nicely.

This film won't make Atheists happy, nor will it put a smile on Social Progressives faces, or the faces of other anti-biblical Christian folks. However, IF you've got an open mind, enough to give what the Bible has to say a chance, the SAME chance as any other religious text, then this film is for you.

Should you be just another anti-Jesus zealot, this film will NOT please you.

Cheers.

Not going to say it's a great movie, but it had some really nice elements, decent special effects compared to most movies on this level, some creepy critters. And overall the plot was pretty neat. The acting wasn't as bad as I expected either.

Worth a watch I'd say.

This movie is a good reminder of how many people live at the mercy of fear and demonic attack, and it shows how simple it can be to come under protection through the blood covenant we have in Christ. He holds the keys! This is one of the most difficult subjects to portray, and it's done with respect and reverence. The acting and cast are great.

I love the way the writer treats those who are sensitive to spiritual awareness. We have a gift, and it's something that can be tarnished and perverted, but it's definitely God- given and can do much in the service of the Most High.

I'd be hesitant to show this to young children or anyone who might become enthralled with the desire to see angels and demons. We need to be more enthralled with the One who makes it all possible for us to live in joy and peace, love and prosperity. He has a name and He is still alive today. His power is what gives the authority to those we see at work here. But we can meet Him, too! No need to settle for the servants when we can enjoy the Lord of the house. However, this film also has a broad appeal.

This film has a lot of intensity, parents choose wisely.

I watched this film with my teenage kids we all loved it. In fact my 15 year old son asked to watch it again to show his friend and we all watched it a second time and my daughter said as we finished "I love this film I could watch it again" The special effects are really great for an Indy film and there are some beautifully shot scenes but the story is really what stands out. It is a great story of choices and consequences. It holds powerful spiritual truths with out ever being preachy. And you really care about the characters! It is an intriguing film that captures the imagination. Definitely worth watching!! This is a great example of non Hollywood film makers getting it right!

OK... so my husband has been bugging me to watch this for a long time. I have been resisting because I thought it would probably be terrible. However, when I watched the trailer I was impressed by the special effects. So tonight we finally watched Divination and you know what... it wasn't bad at all. I'm giving this eight stars but a couple of those are for effort. It's easy to see that the budget was relatively small for this production and that the actors didn't have a ton of experience, but despite that, the film hangs together pretty well. Let's just say I was never bored, and I was entertained throughout. I'm not going to get into a theological breakdown of the Christian aspect here... and I'm sure some would have quibbles just based on that. But for the budget and experience of the cast/crew, I have to give them a hand for the job they pulled off. I noticed a lot of little things, like the lighting, sound production, fight choreography and stunt coordination. A+ on all of those. If you are trying to compare the fight scenes to a $100 million dollar movie then you will be disappointed but this cast actually did a decent job. During a scene where the two main characters are running through a forest at night, the lighting actually works well. Lighting a scene at night is not easy. You have to know what you're doing.

Also, as mentioned, the highlight of this film really is the special effects, which help to ratchet up the tension of the drama and are pretty fun to watch. No, this film is not for everyone. If you are adamantly opposed to a Christian message in films, you won't like this. If you have a problem with low(er) budget movies and acting that's not top-notch then you also might want to skip it. If you don't mind those things, give Divination a shot. We were pleasantly surprised by how good this was and are really happy that we watched it! My husband says "I absolutely loved it! I liked watching the spiritual realm be visualized on screen."

White suburban apocalyptic. Family values under attack! Danger! Danger! What they did not spend on actors they did not spend on imagination either. OK, special effects are kind of fun. But "bird wings" on angels? Have some original thought guys. Again we find a "Christian" film that cannot or dare not delve into the subtleties of the spiritual life. Sad.

This was a low budget film, because of the effects, but it was well written and the acting was good. One actor stood out - it was Fear! His rant about how humans can do things more devastating than he can every imagine is epic!!!

It lost 2 stars because of the effects but story wise, this is generational!

I just finished watching this movie and was very favorably impressed with all of it. It deals with what I consider to be spiritual reality, and yes I believe in Jesus and the Bible, have for decades. I would enthusiastically recommend this movie to anyone who would really like some truth about spiritual things. If not, it is still good as entertainment. Is it a $200 million blockbuster? No. Is it filled with A-list stars? No. Is it worth your time? Yes. Definitely.