Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Glatpoti It is so daring, it is so ambitious, it is so thrilling and weird and pointed and powerful. I never knew where it was going.

mraculeated The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

wes-connors In northern Bulgaria, researchers are puzzled by a strange series of "earthquake clusters." They are more dead than puzzled when an earthquake strikes their own little group. Over in New York City, publishing house proofreader A.J. Buckley (as Eric Fox) discusses a doomsday prophecy just before an earthquake strikes. Up in Mount Rainier, Washington, blonde archaeologist Jewel Staite (as Brooke Calvin) pooh-poohs prophecy. She is in for a rude awakening. It appears as if Armageddon is underway. Because they are the co-stars, Mr. Buckley and Ms. Staite are meant to team-up and save the planet. If they don't, the planet may not be saved...The otherworldly villain is a "Dark Star" with powers like a black hole. In reality, the world would end quickly and without fake earthquakes. Buckley and Staite are assisted by a magic rod given to Buckley. The magic rod enables him to see into the future – in a story about the end of the world, seeing the future is always encouraging. They meet wise old Native American Indian Gordon Tootoosis (as John). Interesting how Indians began their movie career as savages out to rape white women and now appear as helpful elders with near supernatural wisdom. The mission is to find some magical statues. "Doomsday Prophesy" is sheer nonsense.** Doomsday Prophecy (8/13/11) Jason Bourque ~ A.J. Buckley, Jewel Staite, Bruce Ramsay, Alan Dale

Brett Moore After reading a comment on here about this movie being poor, I almost didn't watch this movie but out of boredom I thought how bad can it be. Well, I was pleasantly surprised. First up, the acting was great and there were quite a few cameo appearances early in the movie. Cameo as most of them were all killed off in massive disasters. The rest of the acting was good and by well known TV grade actors and applause to a job well done for the two lead actors who kept me rivited right to the end. The special effects which I was expecting to be crappy were actually quite reasonable and spot on for what one expects from a made for TV movie. All up I was disappointed when the movie ended because I was enjoying it so much. This is definitely a movie to add to your watch list. Now comes the spoilers: The movie is about the earth's up coming demise in 2012 when the earth reaches galactic allignment. AT this time a rogue dark star enters the solar system and the gravitational pull from this causes massive plate shifts resulting in earth quakes and the destruction of cities. Some of the destruction is shown in some fairly reasonable special effects whilst others is just talked about on the radio but then again why would you show Canada being destroyed when the story is elsewhere ? There is a gun battle and a chase spanning two days as a rogue government agent tries obtrain an ancient device our lead actors managed to get just in the nick of time. I wont tell you more because it will ruin a perfectly good story. Enjoy.

Neil Welch I like AJ (CSI: NY) Buckley, and I like Jewel (Firefly/Serenity) Staite. But I must be honest, SyFy movies generally don't impress me much, and this is another one to add to the list.This story about an artefact which is necessary in order to save the world from apocalyptic disaster, the efforts of our two protagonists to put the rescue into effect, and the efforts of certain nutjob factions to prevent them, is utterly routine. The special effects, when they come, are clearly low budget, but not bad for all that.The problem is how can you take seriously a movie where the disasters leading up to the destruction of the world - where we should be awestruck at the destruction, showing us what is at stake - takes place at the other end of a telephone call, or on a TV where we see the back of the set?

mollidew This is a TV movie so I judge it on that level. Special effects are costly and TV movies don't have those types of budgets. I am not an acting coach so I would say the acting is fine. They do have a director that tells the actors his vision of how the story should be portrayed. The beginning is very thought provoking with part of a sea having disappeared into the Earth. It moved rather quickly so I had a hard time grasping what was happening at first.A famous author, Crane, is making predictions in his books that are coming true. It is an end of times type of prophecy but I didn't hear it connected to 2012 directly. Basically there is a dark star and an interaction with an alignment of the equator of the galaxy. They don't know how it will affect the Earth but they state it will cause a lot of change. As you watch the movie, it is destroying the Earth.There is a rod that gives certain people visions and the government or what appears to be the military is trying to get hold of it. This is mostly what the chasing and shooting in the movie is about. They are chasing a woman, Brooke and a man the author passed on information to and then died. The young man is named Eric Fox and works for a publisher and has come to collect another manuscript Crane has supposedly written. It was a ruse and he left him the rod. He began to have visions when he touched it. He left them a video recording and told the both of them that it did indeed give him visions but it had a dark side, it sapped one of their life force. He also told Fox it was his birthright. Naturally he didn't know anything about his parents. Therefore it was just another piece of an extremely large puzzle. One by one cities are being decimated. The two go on a quest to save the world in twelve hours and have very little idea as to what to do. A strange girl approaches them and takes them to see her Father. He is Native American and there are symbols on rocks that they never understood. He speaks of Ancients that are supposed to have saved the planet in the past. There is a connection to Easter Island and the alignments in space. They believe there is a second set of symbols right there. He believes these people were aware of what was to come in the future. They believe with the rod and these alignments/symbols they can save the Earth.Basically from this point they are being chased to get the rod, they are trying to avoid the people chasing them, figure out what everything means and save the Earth before midnight. It is typical of doomsday types of movies. I found it entertaining but of course your usual Syfy fare, no better or worse.