The Seventh Sign (1988)

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• Melvin W

  
  David Bannon: Remember it all, write it down, tell it; so people will use the chance she has given them.  "An ancient evil has been awakened and there is nothing you can do to stop it... except pray" The Seventh Sign is a horrible and dumb religious based thriller. It is… More
  David Bannon: Remember it all, write it down, tell it; so people will use the chance she has given them.  "An ancient evil has been awakened and there is nothing you can do to stop it... except pray" The Seventh Sign is a horrible and dumb religious based thriller. It is kind of packaged as a horror film, but there is nothing about it that is scary or seems to try to be scary. The scariest thing about it is the bad performance from Demi Moore and the garbage dialogue you have to sit through. I thought, at the least, this would be a fairly interesting movie. It's about the apocalypse and takes its plot directly from the Bible; obviously it takes some liberties, but it should still be interesting. But no, it is just an awful, awful movie.  Demi Moore plays an expectant mother who has already lost one baby during pregnancy in the past and she isn't about to lose another one. Then a weird guy moves into their garage and she starts getting very suspicious of him. Then a bunch of crazy end of the world shit starts happening and I could not have been less interested.  This movie doesn't seem to really try to do anything that could relatively be called interesting. It's all so dull; from the performances to the dialogue to the characters. The 90 minute run time felt like 190 minutes. This movie really isn't worth a look. Don't let the plot description lure you in because the plot description is the best thing about it.

• moon r

  
  Could Demi Moore's coming childbirth have something to do with the coming apocalypse? The signs seem to point to just that ... all seven of 'em! Not bad exactly, but not exactly good either.

• Curtis L

  
  Oh man this was terrible. God sure goes through a lot of trouble to end the world for demi moore to just painlessly give her life to her baby to save mankind. For no reason the 'Guf' becomes magically full again, and that's that. It started with potential and by the… More
  Oh man this was terrible. God sure goes through a lot of trouble to end the world for demi moore to just painlessly give her life to her baby to save mankind. For no reason the 'Guf' becomes magically full again, and that's that. It started with potential and by the end it felt like the filmmakers had to end it and make it a happy ending when it really shouldn't have.

• Lafe F

  
  Spooky things happen on the way to the apocalypse. There's an eerieness throughout in this well-crafted thriller.

• Jason S

  
  Weird movie.

• Byron B

  
  The priest character who seems to want to help at the beginning is not really a priest. He is a Roman centurion who has lived since the time of Christ and wants the world to end so his life can finally end. Jurgen Prochnow who plays a creepy wanderer at the beginning who seems to be… More
  The priest character who seems to want to help at the beginning is not really a priest. He is a Roman centurion who has lived since the time of Christ and wants the world to end so his life can finally end. Jurgen Prochnow who plays a creepy wanderer at the beginning who seems to be bringing destruction all across the world is really Jesus Christ who has quietly come back to bring God's judgment on the world. Demi Moore and her husband character are having a baby and she begins to fear her baby will be the seventh sign, born without a soul and the final sign of the end of the earth. She enlists the help of a nerdy Jewish kid to translate some Hebrew manuscripts and then later to research some passages in the Bible as she struggles to prevent armagedeon. The point of this movie, the lesson, is that the first thing Demi can do to prevent the end of the world is stop the death sentence from being carried out on a mentally challenged young man who murdered his parents because he believed it was God's will. Because if the Bible is true and the end of the world will come as scripture says it will, then people who kill in the name of God are of course doing the right thing and shouldn't be punished. Then when stopping that fails and it looks like Demi's baby will be born dead, the final message is that she realizes she must sacrifice her own life so that her baby can have life, souls will be replenished in heaven, and therefore the world can go on.

• Miriam K

  
  Don't like Demi Moore much and she is 95% of the film. . .

• Sarah P

  
  I love films that question and confront religion - this one is very interesting.

• Leo L

  
  A favorite.

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