Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Prophet (1999)

High octane action nonsense though most people are really terrible shots!

Maddox (Don Wilson) is a CIA operative who has a mysterious ability to see the near future in flash forwards. He is tasked to arrest some members of a terrorist organisation, however they keep getting killed before he has the chance to make the arrests! Some of the people also do not seem like terrorists, they also seem to have mysterious abilities...

Maddox discovers that he and the others were used as children by the CIA for their psychic powers during the Vietnam War. He also soon realises he can't trust anyone, especially when the CIA led by Barbara Steele are turned on him...

The story is quite basic and doesn't make a lot of sense but that probably doesn't matter too much. The action is what the film is all about, and there is a lot of that. Much of that doesn't make sense either, supposedly highly trained CIA operatives aim as badly as Imperial stormtroopers, spraying fire with assault rifles but never hitting our hero! A fun film as long as you don't take it very seriously.