Doomsday Prophecy (2011)

Best movie of this year hands down!

Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

Good idea lost in the noise

an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

I say this as somebody who dislikes a vast majority of SyFy's movies. Doomsday Prophecy actually did seem interesting in its idea, but I also approached it in trepidation in fear that it would be another Titanic II, Quantum Apocalypse, Alien vs. Hunter, Almighty Thor or 2010: Moby Dick. In my opinion though, although it is far from perfect or even brilliant, Doomsday Prophecy is one of their more tolerable efforts.There is some cheesy dialogue, some of the supporting characters could have been better developed and some of the effects like with the ground cracking are rather cheap. The story is also uneven for me. The film does start off promisingly and for a while unlike some SyFy movies actually feels as though there is a story and an original one at that plus it is paced reasonably, but it does meander with a silly subplot involving some shady characters and few scenes that feel like filler rather than serving purpose to the story and an ending that feels rather rushed and abrupt.On the other hand, the scenery is quite good and the editing and photography are an improvement over most SyFy efforts, not looking as slipshod as something like Titanic II, Mega Piranha or Dinocroc vs Supergator. The music is adequate even if nothing stands out as such and the sound is more authentic than some of the bizarre or misplaced sound effects I've heard in past SyFy movies. While there are some underdeveloped support characters, the leads are somewhat likable especially the protagonist. The cameos are decent and AJ Buckley is solid, but the best thing about Doomsday Prophecy is easily Jewel Staite, she looks very natural and gives her character a lot of charm and wide-eyed innocence.All in all, not bad, not good, just a tolerable enough if not exceptional in any shape or form to spend a couple of hours or so with. 5/10 Bethany Cox

A mysterious clairvoyant provides Brooke (Jewel Staite from 'Firefly') and Eric Fox (AJ Buckley, an actor previously unknown to me) with instructions how to save the world from a dark star: they have to find those grumpy looking stone-heads from Easter Island - in Canada, because they don't have time to travel to the SE Pacific Ocean anymore. To ensure nothing can go wrong, someone scribbled a note on a stone - and hid it in the forest 26,000 years ago. The two heroes are chased by agents who realize their mission doesn't make any sense, but by then, it's almost too late to save the world... with a small stick. Seriously.There are 2 kinds of lousy disaster movies: the bad, boring ones, and the ones which are so bad they become funny. This is a funny one, and I definitely wasn't bored watching it. I wouldn't worry about the special effects as much as the other reviewers, it's TV documentary, not cinema, but you can't expect more for low budget. Instead, I'd rather wonder why actors don't read the script first. If you can't believe any of this actually could happen, that's a bad start compared to disaster movie classics about earthquakes, climate changes or sinking ships.

After reading a comment on here about this movie being poor, I almost didn't watch this movie but out of boredom I thought how bad can it be. Well, I was pleasantly surprised. First up, the acting was great and there were quite a few cameo appearances early in the movie. Cameo as most of them were all killed off in massive disasters. The rest of the acting was good and by well known TV grade actors and applause to a job well done for the two lead actors who kept me rivited right to the end. The special effects which I was expecting to be crappy were actually quite reasonable and spot on for what one expects from a made for TV movie. All up I was disappointed when the movie ended because I was enjoying it so much. This is definitely a movie to add to your watch list. Now comes the spoilers: The movie is about the earth's up coming demise in 2012 when the earth reaches galactic allignment. AT this time a rogue dark star enters the solar system and the gravitational pull from this causes massive plate shifts resulting in earth quakes and the destruction of cities. Some of the destruction is shown in some fairly reasonable special effects whilst others is just talked about on the radio but then again why would you show Canada being destroyed when the story is elsewhere ? There is a gun battle and a chase spanning two days as a rogue government agent tries obtrain an ancient device our lead actors managed to get just in the nick of time. I wont tell you more because it will ruin a perfectly good story. Enjoy.

I have to say that I decided to look at this while I was waiting for my wife to return from a girl party and I had absolutely nothing else to do.....otherwise I probably wouldn't have even noticed it.......that said, this movie is exactly the type of fare that has pretty much ended my viewer-ship of the SyFy channel........I mean it was so boring I found it hard to believe anyone paid for this drivel........clearly, if the zombie-like performances of the actors is any indication, the director, if there was one, phoned it in.......I mean there was a director listed but judging from the performances, i wonder.As well, I wondered who was responsible for this absolutely awful (not in a plan 9 good way) movie.......and I discovered it was from the same producers that brought us quite a bit of the worst scifi in history.......all shown with great relish on the SyFy channel of course..........the story consists of name dropping every mysterious place and every conceivable end time prophecy from the history channel.......and our heroes being chased around by the thugs of a nebulous gov't group of course, highlighted by large chunks of the earth cracking or otherwise sinking out of sight........interspersed with rehashing explanations a la Tom Hanks and describing laughingly precise visions or dreams..........all in all, really sophomoric and tiresome........very quickly, early-on tiresome.Jewel Staite was the worst i've ever seen her........sad for an actress that was fairly good when she was younger......A.J. Buckley should stick with CSI for as long as possible and save his money because if he keeps doing this sort of thing he will definitely disappear as an actor.......he is after all, a mediocre talent at best.Keep it up SyFy, keep buying this Canadian crap and you will probably disappear too.......I realize that churning out this hopelessly awful junk makes work for a lot of people and promotes North American trade and all that that entails but is it really fair to keep inflicting this crap on us, the unsuspecting public?.......of course if you put us off scifi then maybe we will appreciate wrestling and reality shows more...........if that's your plan it will not work because there are plenty of other sources of great scifi........I promise you, you won't fool me again.