The Celestine Prophecy (2006)

An adaptation of James Redfield's novel about the search for a sacred manuscript in the Peruvian rain forest . Disillusioned and temporarily rudderless, John Woodson (Matthew Settle ) is about to experience a dramatic and profound metamorphosis. Through a mysterious set of coincidences, he travels to Peru to find out strange scrolls , known as the Celestine Prophecy. In Peru Woodson meets a motley group of people (Sarah Wayne , Hector Helizondo , Jurgen Prochnow , Anabeth Gish..) with dark secrets . John gets drawn into a cobweb of mysterious events . Resistant at first, skeptical and unsure, John finds that each step he takes, each person he encounters leads him to a new awakening. It is only in this letting go that he finds his destiny and comes to understand the meaning that had escaped him when his adventure began. Thought-provoking film that packs suspense , thrills , religious events , heartfelt message and weird philosophy . It's a crossover among various films , as it takes parts from ¨The Seventh Sign¨ , ¨The fountain ¨ , ¨The reaping¨ , and ¨The gathering¨ . The picture contains an interesting premise about the prophecy and its nine key insights, predict a new awakening that redefines human life and provides a glimpse into a completely spiritual culture on earth . It's a spiritual triller skillfully narrated with bit action and slightly entertaining. This polished film provides chills, thrills in lively mystery . It's rich and dark though sometimes confusing . The film belongs to supernatural prophecy sub-genre (along with : ¨The omen¨, ¨The seventh sign¨, ¨The Body¨ , among others). Average acting by Matthew Seattle as a young who finds himself on an adventure to Peru in search of ancient scrolls . Very good support cast plenty of respected players such as Thomas Kretschmann as Wil , Sarah Wayne Callies as Marjorie , Annabeth Gish as Julia , Hector Elizondo as Cardinal Sebastian , Joaquim de Almeida as Father Sanchez and Jürgen Prochnow as Jensen . Esoteric music and excessive use of synthesizer by Nuno Malo . The motion picture loosely based on the book Celestine Prophecy was regularly directed by Armand Mastroianni . Armand has been directing feature films, mini series, movies of the week, TV pilots and episodic series since 1979 beginning with his first feature film "He Knows You're Alone" which was released by MGM in 1980 and featured the screen debut of Tom Hanks. That film led to a string of features including "The Killing Hour" developed with William Fredkin, "The Supernaturals," "Distortions," "Cameron's Closet" and "Double Revenge." In between shooting feature films Armand began to produce and direct episodic television shows and series like Virus , Invasión , First daughter , Citizen Jane , A Gunfighter's Pledge , The finalist , Pandemic and many others .

the 90minutes that i spent in watching this film nobody is going to bring me back...and that makes me sad... it's a really bad film made for fanatic people, i would use a lot of words to describe this film, but i can't do it if i want to write a review. But I really tell you, that if i had the time of 10 lives and in that time the only thing that i could do was watching films, i wouldn't watch even the trailer again. I'm sorry for the actors who play in the film, i really sorry for them because their name it's going to be forever in the casting of this super super super awful film. One time I saw a pig dying and screaming with a lot of blood... that film is even uglier than this picture that i have in my head... If i could do it, i wouldn't be polite with my words...

I have only watched 39:14 of the movie so far and am taken aback by a line in the movie - a woman discussing her wishes to adopt a Peruvian child where she says something about how it's a time consuming process and how they just haven't found the "right one" yet.WOW. Just wow. For "enlightened" beings, I honestly am shocked and disgusted that such a comment could be made that loving a child is something that depends on a very particular child. That is new age self-righteous nonsense. Love is supposed to be unconditional and some advanced spiritual woman is complaining how she can't pick a child to adopt yet because she hasn't found 'the right one'. How incredibly selfish.This is definitely the epitome of new age nonsense distilled into bite-sized pieces. To think that the world is just going to magically get better without any effort on one's own - or that everything in life that was 'meant to be' will just fall in their lap with this synchronicity nonsense - where's the fun in that? Suffering happens BECAUSE of lack of participation. We suffer because we rely upon others who do not have our own best interest, and do not bother trying to trust ourselves, learning the things we need to thrive in life, not believing in ourselves. Yet when life becomes effortless, handed to us, where exactly is the meaning? There will always be a small percentage of 'well-off' people who flock to happy thoughts and delusional beliefs in a utopian world of 'higher consciousness' where the problems of the world just magically disappear. But this keeps more and more of us pacified while the elite cause the suffering and destruction in the world. New age philosophy is profitable because it makes people passive, allowing atrocities to continue without a fight. We have power struggles where the majority of people are good hearted but are deceived by the minority and opportunities at a fair and decent life are stripped away, where entire cities are robbed of a fair way of life, of loyal/fair employers, of any sense of safety and well-being. The wealthy become so because they have little concern for others and cling to wealth to make them feel strong and powerful to compensate for their loneliness and lack of inner happiness.There is a certain selfishness in seeking inner bliss because it leaves one content to the point of non-participation. When you learn to 'just be', you tend to lose the motivation and anger to demand a better world, to get yourself off your butt and actually create it. A better world will not create itself, like this trite of a book/movie that obsesses over synchronicity suggests. The suffering of others is not purely from a lack of 'consciousness' but in many ways due to the power structures that a small elite dictate onto the masses, starting with the deprivation of resources and demanding of compensation of others through the concept of 'ownership' of resources, land, etc, and forced dependence upon people who use and abuse your situation, often without your knowledge, often blaming it on magical external forces like an 'economy'. To suggest that all this new age 'consciousness' stuff is where the world is headed is to deny that most of the world struggles and will continue to struggle worse because of a small percentage of people who do not care, who won't magically give up their desire for control, especially the more they seem to be losing it. Sorry, folks, but that's not human nature.Anyway, Redfield isn't saying anything new, he just read a few books and plagiarized his own theory for the sake of making a few bucks. There have been plenty of Americans, as well as ancient teachers of east and west, who have said all this before. Sure, it's great to believe in meaningful coincidences, but is that seriously going to happen to everybody? Even the inner city prostitute who has to sell her body to feed her baby? I'm sorry, but the world is not getting better all by itself, as much as Mr. Redfield and other new agers would like to suggest - it demands the participation of everybody, not their apathy/passivity. Maybe a small percentage of people are becoming wiser in their day, choosing to reject the power structures around them, but there still are more and more people who are being sucked into a mindless way of living and suffering. I can understand the appeal, though, of an effortless promise from the universe/God/whatever that all of our problems are going away. That would be an incredible sense of relief and it sure would be darned tempting to believe. But I'd call it premature, naive, and not very well understanding of why exactly we end up suffering. Forget the new age nonsense, because suffering isn't purely a choice when people are being deprived their freedom and autonomy, their ability to be spontaneous. They're being deceived by an elite few and yeah, sure, eventually we will see through it and revolt, but it's not happening over night. It's not rocket science that change happens eventually. All civilizations/societies fluctuate over the centuries. With our technological inventions, learning and awareness are multiplying, and I wouldn't particularly say it's anything magical.The only reason why I am watching the movie is because of Sarah Wayne Callies. I just finished watching season 1 of Prison Break and wanted to see her in a different role out of some boyish fantasy.

The book that this movie is based on seriously changed my life. But saying this movie was a disappointment is an understatement. The acting, directing, cinematography, and storyline were all horrible. I would never recommend this movie to anyone. I've told countless people about the book but will now be telling them all that they should definitely not see the movie! I did not expect the plot to follow the book exactly, but they have left out too many key components of the book. The movie tried, but failed, to deliver a powerful and inspiring message and only demeaned the central theme of the prophecy. While putting myself in the position who had not read the book, I saw the Celestine Prophecy as a bunch of hoaxy B.S. I am thoroughly disappointed with Redfield for the way this movie turned out.