Apocalypse IV - Judgment

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Very Interesting Courtroom Drama.......2007-01-06

Usually I can't stand films from Cloud Ten Pictures,as I have tried 3 times to watch the ridiculous Left Behind(but I loved the 12 book series),and the acting is so bad and the hokey idea of the raptured people's clothes being neatly folded without a wrinkle,like just back from the cleaners,kills me!

This movie grabbed me from the begining and kept me absorbed through the end,plus I really was interested in all the characters, good and bad.The trial was great as well. So if you have been as disappointed with Cloud Ten pictures as I have,do yourself a favor and give Judgement a try.I believe you will be pleasantly surprised.

" ... and Mr. T -- a kind of Christian B. A. Barracus." -- KFAV Radio.......2006-10-07

Your Honor, I have only one argument to make in defense of this movie:

Mr. T is da bomb.

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'Cuz yeah, it's a low-budget flick & all, with all the probs inherent in such an animal, but, then again, there IS the colorful cast of characters to consider & none is more colorfuller than Mr. T -- dontcha know?

I beg pardon? Oh yeah. Colorfuller. Um ... I just made that word up, Your Honor, because I'm trying to express how Mr. T made -- I said MADE -- this movie for me ... Ya dig?

Good movie, but for a Christian film, it has false teachings.......2006-07-29

I thought the movie had a good storyline, and the actors did their jobs well (although Mr. T had a stereotypical Mr. T performance).

The one thing that really puzzles me is this : The movie claims to be a Christian film, however Mitch (played by Corbin Bernsen) wears a fake mark of the beast on his right hand, and he comes out in the movie as the "hero". The Bible clearly states that anybody who takes the mark of the beast will go to Hell. My belief is that in God's eyes, wearing a fake mark of the beast would be no different than wearing the real thing.

Plus, there are some continuity errors in this film as it relates to the whole "Apocalypse" series. In the 2nd film ("Revelations") and 3rd film ("Tribulation"), the mark of the beast is presented as a 666 burnt into people's hands by Franco Macalousso by way of the "image of the beast" virtual reality helmet (thankfully the hokey VR helmet concept did not make it to "Judgement"). In "Judgement", the mark is represented as a different design.

The film is entertaining, but I find the whole "hero who has a fake mark of the beast is still a hero at the end" angle to be rather unsettling.

not very good.......2006-02-19

Poor introduction and background. Low-budget film that has few locations. Mr. T can't act unless it is humorous. The lawyers acted well. The story just wasn't very good.

Just wished it wasn't the last.......2006-02-06

Comparing this movie to the previous three APOCALYPSE series movies, this one seemed to drag its heels like the court case. Jessica Steen made Victoria Thorne a really unlikeable character that you wished you could see her final fate as a lawyer who sold herself to the devil. (Of course, if you have the DVD, you could see one of the deleted scenes where Franco Maccalusso does send her and the judge, though both of them barely seen, to their final fates -- a scene I wish could have been in the main cut.) Corben Bernsen's character struggles under both hiding out as a uncommitted person bearing a fake "mark of the beast" to avoid death on either side of the battle of the ages, and with the manipulation he seems to be getting from both his former lover and the various One World Nation agents that he comes across throughout the whole thing. Mr. T's character is basically Mr. T sounding like he's trying to do evangelism in his typical B.A. Barracas style of personality. Overall, it's too bad that this had to be the last movie of the series, leaving things that started out in Apocalypse eternally unresolved -- imagine the LEFT BEHIND series never reaching the 12th book Glorious Appearing to get the idea.

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