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Overwhelming dislike - based on 27 Critics What's this?

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Mixed or average reviews- based on 15 Ratings

  • Starring: Jimmy Smits, Kim Basinger, Rufus Sewell
  • Summary: A six-year-old is targeted by Satanists to carry out a Biblical prophecy. Her aunt (Basinger) and a police detective (Smits) team up to foil the plan.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 27
  2. Negative: 20 out of 27
  1. The movie works -- at least marginally.
  2. Often trite and predictable but grudgingly likable in the end.
  3. Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    38
    Causes one to wish... that movies about the supernatural could make contact with supernatural script doctors.
  4. 38
    A cheesy crock of religious mumbo jumbo.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 5
  2. Negative: 2 out of 5

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