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Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

The small town of Antioch is slowly divided by the magic touch of a mysterious stranger. Robby Henson directs this adaptation of a novel by Frank Peretti. The charismatic stranger Brandon Nichols(Edward Furlong)appears to have the power to heal, nevertheless he also has an aura about him that is of pronounced menace. A fallen ex-minister Travis Jordan(Martin Donovan) begins putting back his unraveled faith and goes about proving Nichols is a false prophet avenging his past sorrows. More supernatural than horrific. Furlong is commanding as the malevolent messiah. Actually a pretty good movie. The cast includes: Kelly Lynch, Randy Travis, Joe Unger, Priscilla Barnes, James Horan and Richard Tyson.

I watched this movie fully prepared for it to be much different from the book because that's expected. What I did not expect, however, was for the entire storyline and characters to be different. When you change everything about the story, you change the message as well. Here are some of the biggest changes from the book. 1. Brandon did not have some past grudge against Travis. He had never met Travis prior to coming to Antioch. He like Travis because he thought they were both bitter against God and could work together. 2. Brandon did not kill Travis' wife. She died of cancer. The whole needing a kill every 3 years never happened. 3. Morgan was not a vet. She was a minister that was cold in her faith. That was one reason Brandon wanted to kill her because she was a woman of God. 4. Dee, the sheriff, and the girl who's hand was healed were not related. 5. Kyle Sherman was not a solid, middle aged man like Randy Travis. He is described as a young, passionate pastor in his twenties that sometimes lacks wisdom but has a good heart. He reminds Travis of himself when he started out in the ministry as a young man. This angle takes up a lot of the book. 6. Brandon dresses like Jesus in a white robe and sandals. He has a woman dress like Mary and Micheal is John the Baptist in the book. There are tone of other differences, but they are to be expected. But, when you take away who the characters are and make a whole new storyline, it is no longer the same story you started with. Peretti's book was a work of art, I don't know why Hollywood think their angle is always better. It is also stressed in the book that Brandon's dad was influenced by Satan when he nailed Brandon to the fence. In the movie it is implied that it could have been God. Very dangerous for non Christian viewers. It saddens me.

I'm a fan of horror. I'm also a fan of Eddie Furlong. II'm not typically a fan of Christian horrors/thrillers, although some of the very best have been of that sub-genre. The Exorcist line stands as a shining example.This work comes across more like it wants to document than entertain. Normally, and under the right circumstances, that would be acceptable, but considering the subject matter this work presents, I found it both disturbing and reminiscent of the Blair Witch Project.However, the low budget is a contributor to this otherwise preachy Bible-thumper, which attempt to document, but can only amuse. At least...that is as the situation appears on the surface. Once the movie draws to a conclusion, you may find a better (if not greater) appreciation of this work.With a few good ideas, and the endurance of a two-hour sermon, I'm not sure the casual movie-goer can stomach it. This one takes a die hard fan of the sub-genre of Christian horror/thriller to find this really engrossing, but there IS a compelling story, some great performances, and artful cinematic brilliance by DoP Glynn Speeckaert. Honestly, Speekaert's contribution is the one shining light of this production.The story is simple. Miracles are being worked in the small town of Antioch. The question is, "By whom, how, and why?" Well, whomever he turns out to be, he's wearing Eddie Furlong's face.This was fun, though not greatly so, and rates a 6.5/10 from...the Fiend :.

THE VISITATION is a watered-down THE EXORCIST or POLTERGEIST, as a quartet of strange figures visit a small town and start working miracles -- only to follow this by taking back the miracles and wreaking havoc. Are these angels of light or angels of destruction and death and darkness? You decide. One of them looks like Jesus in a plaid shirt and baggy dungarees. Another looks like a heavy from a DIE HARD movie, complete with long, greasy locks and a long, black trenchcoat. If it wasn't so badly written, I might have mistaken THE VISITATION for a Stephen King story or even a Dean Koontz saga. No such luck. It was written by a guy who apparently is becoming a name in youth-oriented, supernatural tomes with a bit of fundamentalist preaching. Several familiar faces pepper this low-budget thriller, including Martin Donovan as a fallen preacher, Kelly Lynch as a newly arrived vet, and the kid from TERMINATOR 2 as the plaid-shirt Jesus who sounds remarkably like Michael J. Fox in a bad wig and grungy beard. Few scares or thrills, but worth a watch with one eye while reading with the other.