Touches You

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

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

4.9 stars, are you kidding? This movie is massively underrated. I might give it a 7.9, but I put 10 to balance out the ratings. This movie and the books are some of the few that really depict energy between people, human energy fields in a beautiful visible way with a taste of adventure. It's not just about how perfect the movie is, it's about the message. The books changed my childhood. The movie is solid. I don't agree that human energy comes from 'trying' (which for me is more like stress) or that all energy comes from 'within' either. But this movie really shows the energy fields between people in a cool way, the journey to understand it.

The Celestine Prophecy is a film directed by Armand Mastroianni and starring Matthew Settle, Thomas Kretschmann, and Sarah Wayne Callies. The film is based on James Redfield's best-selling novel of the same title.The prophecy of a worldwide spiritual awakening gradually begins to come into focus in director Armand Mastroianni and screenwriters James Redfield, Barnet Bain, and Dan Gordon's sweeping adaptation of James Redfield's best-selling novel.John Woodson was a high-school history teacher before the loss of his job left him disillusioned and facing an uncertain future. When John is contacted by ex-girlfriend and journalist Charlene, who is currently in town on a brief layover after covering a story in Peru, the pair arrange to meet for dinner and Charlene explains that she has just returned from a remote Eden known as Viciente, where scholars are currently studying a mysterious set of eight ancient scrolls. It was there, continues Charlene, that she came into contact with a priest named Father Jose, who explained to her that the scrolls contain a prophesy written before the birth of Christ and foretell a coming time of enlightenment that will redefine life in the 21st century. Though at first skeptical, John is compelled to book a flight to Peru when Charlene states that she appears to have been drawn to him by a higher power, and a travel brochure on Peru appears in his mailbox the following day. A subsequent encounter with a professor who is also on John's flight and has been studying the scrolls reveals that the scrolls were written in 5 or 6 B.C. and buried in a wooden box that was assembled in the 1600s. Though there was, according to legend, a ninth scroll, it has yet to be recovered. A late-night stroll on the streets of Lima soon leads John into the company of Father Jose, who later disappears after a frightening encounter in which a high-ranking operative holds the priest at gunpoint while insisting that he reveal the location of the lost scroll. Later led to Viciente by the guide who was with Father Jose when the cleric discovered the scrolls, John is haunted by dreams of a remote paradise and a young child, setting into motion a spectacular series of events that will ultimately culminate in a transformation of light that promises to reveal the future of humanity.The movie is self-conscious and lacks dramatic tension, and the dialogue sounds like people reading passages from James Redfield's novel.Just about the best thing that can be said for this spiritual potboiler is that it is not much worse than The Da Vinci Code.Overall,it is is indifferently directed and acted, and its plotting is virtually tension- free.

I would give the film a 10 if the quality of the film were better. This is not to say that the quality was not good; it was good, but not excellent. Nevertheless, the message of the film is very important and directs our attention to a possible future we can share if positive energy is exchanged. It also points at a present time that many share because of widespread hatred and fear.I read the book years ago, and liked it very much. I did not know until recently that a movie was made. I just finished watching it.The way the film makers showed energy being exchanged is the way I imagined it while reading the book. I do not see, visually, energy with my eyes, but I feel it, much the way Margorie said to John that she could feel it. It is so true; the way people give and take energy, and the way it affects them. In this way, and many other ways, the movie was right on.Once I was able to look beyond the actors' personal realities that would sometimes show through the cinematic cracks of the film, I was able to appreciate the intent, much the way I did when reading the book.If the film is watched in a way that compares it critically to typical, Hollywood style, sensationalized films it will naturally be disappointing. The messages are there, throughout the film, and I think it's important to watch the film for that reason, looking for the messages, the intent, and getting the benefit.Art

I loved the movie as well as the book! James Redfield is my husbands uncle,and i think he did an amazing job on the movie.based on what i have seen it is as much like the book as you can get without it being a 5 hour long movie.i have read a lot of users comments on here about how the movie isn't like the book and it sucked..come on its a religious movie not an action movie you watch it for insight not for a thrill!!you knew what to expect before seeing it..i personally think its amazing work!!i cant believe people would sit on here and give it bad ratings( bad acting,porn o) i believe not!! this movie is originated from a best seller!!!!!not some stupid sex movie how could people even compare the acting in cp to a porn!! i guess that shows there lack of education!!James released this movie on his own!!! with his own funding,and im proud of his work!! james and salle have worked years of there life on cp ...its part of them and the way people have been rating it, is pure bull!!and does not do the movie justice!! i really thing everyone should be required to watch or read the Celestine Prophecy !!!then maybe our world would have the insight into how to be better and treat everyone better!!If you want sex ,drugs,rap and all that other crap in movies now a days go watch something else!!!! If you want to see a good movie with good morals and values with out all that junk see the Celestine Prophecy!! you will be glad you did!