(From Revelation, 2002. At least the motion graphics for the computer screens are nicely done.)
Saw the 2002 Romulus film Revelation tonight. This $7 million movie was released in theaters in Britain and here on DVD. It's a da Vinci code-like mystery filled with pentagrams, secret codes and an history-shattering plot. Actually the main idea is pretty good, but the film screens like a movie of the week. I'm not quite sure why. Maybe it's the almost good-looking enough leads or the almost good-enough visual effects. And there's something odd about the entire package like the DVD extras that linger on run-of-the-mill visual effects like compositing and green screens. The whole thing smells foreign like those 80's Mentos commercials. The BBC said it was "so buttock-clenchingly awful, so utterly bereft of redeeming features, so hilariously and manifestly incompetent that a critic can only look on, slack-jawed in bemusement." Romulus films is an old British studio known for making The Odessa Files and Day of the Jackal among others. Romulus is also the home planet of the Romulans on Star Trek.
Like the da Vinci code, an Isaac Newton reference appears in this film. I wish they'd just leave him alone. There's no real reason to refer to him in either of these films. He's just thrown in because of his association with alchemy. It sort of ruins it for the rest of us who are trying to use him meaningfully.
I don't think anyone will see it because apparently my sense of humor is so dry as to be non-existent. But our film is a sort-of satire of these films and funny in a certain way. Revelation and the Da Vinci code are just so damn serious. And the clues are so self-consciously arcane with their references to the Knights Templar and monks and the Vatican. Give me clues hidden in a kid's menu any day.
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