This second of four Apocalypse films is probably the best of the lot. “Revelation” takes place three months after the end of the first film, when the Rapture of the Church takes place (“Apocalypse” 1998), and the story has terrorism expert Thorold Stone (Jeff Fahey) on the trail of a mysterious computer program to be used by the new world leader Franco Macalousso (Nick Mancuso). He is helped by a computer wiz (Tony Nappo), a blind model (Carol Alt), and by returnee Helen Hannah (Leigh Lewis), the fugitive World News Network broadcaster from “Apocalypse.”
Co-stars include Marium Carvell, David Roddis, Rick Demas, Patrick Gallagher, Bruce McFee, Rothaford Gray, Paulino Nunes, Barbara Mamabolo, Howard Hoover, Howard Hoover, and Frank Proctor. There are cameo appearances by TV preachers John Hagee, Jack Van Impe, and Rexella Van Impe. The four films in the series are “Apocalypse” (1998), “Revelation” (1999), “Tribulation” (2000), and “Judgement” (2001).
Producers-screenwriters Peter Lalonde and Paul Lalonde and director Andre Van Heerden do a fantastic job of keeping the one hour and thirty-eight minute film moving rapidly. The question of who is a believer and who will take the mark of the beast, along with what is the subject of the computer program “Day of Wonders,” keeps viewers guessing right up to the end in the very watchable “Revelation.”
Revelation (1999)
cinema
My Review
This second of four Apocalypse films is probably the best of the lot. “Revelation” takes place three months after the end of the first film, when the Rapture of the Church takes place (“Apocalypse” 1998), and the story has terrorism expert Thorold Stone (Jeff Fahey) on the trail of a mysterious computer program to be used by the new world leader Franco Macalousso (Nick Mancuso). He is helped by a computer wiz (Tony Nappo), a blind model (Carol Alt), and by returnee Helen Hannah (Leigh Lewis), the fugitive World News Network broadcaster from “Apocalypse.”
Co-stars include Marium Carvell, David Roddis, Rick Demas, Patrick Gallagher, Bruce McFee, Rothaford Gray, Paulino Nunes, Barbara Mamabolo, Howard Hoover, Howard Hoover, and Frank Proctor. There are cameo appearances by TV preachers John Hagee, Jack Van Impe, and Rexella Van Impe. The four films in the series are “Apocalypse” (1998), “Revelation” (1999), “Tribulation” (2000), and “Judgement” (2001).
Producers-screenwriters Peter Lalonde and Paul Lalonde and director Andre Van Heerden do a fantastic job of keeping the one hour and thirty-eight minute film moving rapidly. The question of who is a believer and who will take the mark of the beast, along with what is the subject of the computer program “Day of Wonders,” keeps viewers guessing right up to the end in the very watchable “Revelation.”