I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Plot: After his father is murdered a young man must hunt down a holy relic with the help of a priest and an alchemist.Listening to the director's commentary it is obvious that this was a film made with good intentions. For one thing, the director appears to believe in most of the conspiracy theories that make up the plot! Sadly it is let down by dreary leads, a poor script and the frankly ludicrous conspiracy concept. The Knights Templar, the Book of Revelation and the Merovignian bloodline all make appearances, rendering the film neither original nor convincing. It doesn't help that the big secret conspiracy is obvious almost from the beginning, robbing the film of any mystery. For the most part this is a rubbish thriller, absent tension, excitement or, well, thrills. The leads are wooden, the characters dull, the writing trite, the budget minute and the conclusion patently absurd.Worth no viewings (sadly).

I've had a lot of fun with conspiracy theories over the years, I find them rather fascinating. Their psychological underpinnings are pretty intriguing but more than that I look upon conspiracy theorising as an art-form. Sure, a lot of key conspiracy theorist texts claim non fiction status, but to me the product is a nonsense but the production rather wonderful. I like to unpick these grand tapestries, to note the joins where one aspect of history has been stitched to another, where one organisation is sewn to another, all the ways that these theories are put together. And I enjoy writing and cinema that does the same thing, delving into these complex narratives and teasing out reasoning. Revelation gives us a grand conspiracy, perhaps the grandest of all, but never goes deeper, we are expected to simply roll along with it. Trouble is, the general execution just isn't good enough and the film quite rapidly becomes hard to take seriously, progressing into out and out silliness by a third of the way through. And sadly its a sustained and exhausting silliness, not something that especially amuses. The plot outline has young cryptography expert Jake Martel on the trail of a mysterious relic known as the Loculus, accompanied by hot alchemist Mira and priestly tough guy Ray Connolly. And on the dark side is a mysterious cat known as The Grand Master with some pretty nasty methods and underlings. That's the basic drive of the film, a globe trotting adventure that unfolds some pretty wild alternative history as it goes along, the death of Christ, the Knights Templar, occultism and Christianity, Isaac Newton, high level corruption in at least two fairly important organisations and more, its a heady brew that almost totally overpowers the film on a dramatic level because of the regular shots of expository tosh that are required to explain it. Adding to the downer are some rather poor performances, James D'Arcy gives a sub soap opera bland pretty boy performance as Jake, Natasha Wightman does little more than look pretty and weakly pretend to be mysterious as Mira whilst Terence Stamp is dire as one of the important early figure in the tale and Derek Jacobi has an embarrassing cameo. The only people who come off alright are Liam Cunningham as Father Ray, who steers clear of taking his ridiculous character seriously and just as a bit of a ball, and Udo Kier as The Grand Master who gives us his standard but ever entertaining mystery and menace. No one is well served by the writing either, which never fails to be ill thought out and hokey, with a number of plot holes. The film is at least not often boring and one or two scenes are actually reasonably fun, a couple of jolts of nastiness and a crackpot finale being highlights so I cant really give it the lowest grade, but for a film of a fair budget, some fine locations and a lot of potential this really is pretty weak.

This is a must for all film students. A comprehensive guide to bad writing, bad acting, bad directing, bad producing.Watch and weep. Please tell me the tax payer didn't invest in this.Perhaps better editing could have converted it into a comedy a la Benny Hill or Monty Python. Then again maybe not, there is nothing funny about Wightman - doubtless is a passable clothes horse but who's idea was it that she 'act'?Special effects are good though but are wasted here when they would have been prize-winners in a pop video. Pity that. And you are just going to love the wigs - if you waste money renting it that is.

*** This review contains spoilers. Read at your own risk *** Goodness. I didn't expect to snicker, laugh, and snort quite as much as this. What was I thinking? The lines were cheesy (too many to give examples), the plot ridiculous, and the sex scene is one of the funniest things I've seen in a while. I was in tears with laughter at the most inappropriate scenes, ie. when Jake dies. What a waste of Terence Stamp. As for all the people commenting on similarities between Revelation and The Da Vinci Code. Yes, they both boil down to Christ having descendants, but really, it's all about how much they sucked. Not the most eloquent manner in which to bash it, but I've read the book and I've seen this movie. They are not worth the time. I can't believe I caved into the hype. And I can't believe I watched this all because James D'Archy is a good looking man. The price I pay for being shallow.