If you don't land on the Christian cable channel every now and then, you probably missed the marketing for this incredibly expensive "independent" film about the coming of the antichrist, who, you might be interested to know, is Michael York. Goofy Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers) plays an atheistic personal power guru troubled by visions of the Apocalypse. When he learns the end of creation might be near, he says, "All I care about is clearing my name!" Exposition, almost exclusively by broadcast journalists, drives this 110-minute plot onward. Comic-book dialogue, Star Trek pseudo-science, and special effects knock-offs from Raiders of the Lost Ark make this a laughably bad "millennium thriller." One Stigmata down, one Omega Code broken, and one Battlefield Earth (the Scientologists' forthcoming contribution to the Hollywood-Apocalypse canon) to go. Thank God these millennia only happen once every thousand years.
--Mari Wadsworth
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