A
worthless piece of
trash that was unleashed upon
Multiplexes in
August 2000. It stars
Kim Basinger as a nurse whose strung-out
sister has a baby, dumps it into her care, then disappears for 6 years. In the
interim, the child grows into the next
Messiah, without Basinger noticing. Fortunately, a cult of
Satanists, under the front of a Scientology-style
cult, do notice, and they abduct the child to try and turn her to
Lucifer's service.
Jimmy Smits serves a largely pointless role as an
FBI agent who is investigating a series of child
abductions associated with the search for Basinger's kid.
So what made this movie so bad?
- Every character was one-dimensional, with the exception of the actual child, who actually had some acting range.
- The lines were hokey. After some crucial evidence is discovered: "We'll get those Satan-loving freaks now!". I shit you not.
- Police procedure seems to have been cribbed from old episodes of Hawaii Five-O
- The CGI special effects were of about the same caliber as what you would see on an episode of Xena. When I told my friend this, she said "Duh, this movie was produced by the same people that produced Xena."
- In particular, their demons looked a lot like what the Winged Monkeys should look like in a remake of The Wizard of Oz.
- Finally, the entire film is presented as kind of Catholic propaganda. Everything is too predictable and heavy-handed to see it as anything else.
I saw this movie because I wanted to get out of the
heat into an
Air-Conditioned theater, and I missed
Space Cowboys. Then I went to see
Cecil B Demented, which I liked a lot better. 2 stars, because of the girl's acting.