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The Celestine Prophecy (2006)

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Average Rating: 2.4/10
Reviews Counted: 23
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 22

Adapted from the bestselling self-help tome, The Celestine Prophesy is indifferently directed and acted, and its plotting is virtually tension-free.

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Average Rating: 2/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 9

Adapted from the bestselling self-help tome, The Celestine Prophesy is indifferently directed and acted, and its plotting is virtually tension-free.

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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 (Matthew Settle) 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 (Robyn Cohen), who is currently in town on a brief

Dec 19, 2006

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All Critics (24) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (23) | DVD (4)

... tedious and ill-made claptrap it makes staring at your hands seem like four-star entertainment by comparison.

August 12, 2006 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | Comment
Houston Chronicle
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[The film is] arguably as effective as Ambien at inducing sleep, but possible side effects include uncontrollable laughter.

August 12, 2006 Comment
New York Post
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A delectable fusion of New Age babble and luridly bad filmmaking based on the best-selling 1993 book by James Redfield.

August 10, 2006 Comment
New York Times
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The movie is flatly acted and extremely ill-paced, lacking any sense of urgency, momentum or fun.

July 21, 2006 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
Los Angeles Times
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Believer and skeptic alike can agree on one thing: It is a transcendentally awful movie.

May 25, 2006 Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | Comment
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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The movie is self-conscious and lacks dramatic tension, and the dialogue sounds like people reading passages from James Redfield's novel ...

April 28, 2006 Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | Comment
Arizona Republic
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James Redfield's best seller hits the big screen with a dull thud.

August 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | Comment
Sacramento News & Review

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.

July 3, 2007 Full Review Source: Eye for Film | Comment
Eye for Film

This is just dogma delivered in the blunt tones of an old classroom hygiene film.

March 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Film Journal International

One would think that since the book sold 14 million copies, Hollywood would have bought the film rights waay back then , but they didn't I can now see why.

August 11, 2006 Comment
Greenwich Village Gazette

The Celestine Prophecy Movie never transcends either the look or the feel of a cult recruitment film crossed with a Christian-network infomercial.

July 20, 2006 Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | Comment
L.A. Weekly

Armand Mastroianni brings James Redfield's huge bestseller to the screen with all the care it deserves ... which is none.

July 20, 2006 Comment

If "The Da Vinci Code" were based on New Age theories similar to those in "What the Bleep Do We Know?" -- and if it were terrible -- the result would be "The Celestine Prophecy Movie."

June 30, 2006 Full Review Source: Capital Times (Madison, WI) | Comment
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

So clumsily made on every level -- acting, dialogue, decor, lighting, editing, scoring -- that it would never have found its way into theaters if there weren't the name of a best-seller to slap on it.

June 2, 2006 Full Review Source: Oregonian | Comment
Oregonian

A thrill-less thriller.

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | Comment
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Based on the best-selling self-help book, the movie shares the book's chief flaw, which is that it's so awkwardly put together that it's hard to concentrate on the interesting ideas it may contain.

May 25, 2006 Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | Comment
St. Paul Pioneer Press

Spiritual epiphany is tough to convey onscreen, and near impossible in the hands of wooden actors.

May 20, 2006 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | Comment
Austin Chronicle

How's this for a prophecy: This earnest but hokey adaptation of James Redfield's New Age best-seller won't last more than a few weeks in theaters.

May 19, 2006 Full Review Source: Boulder Weekly | Comment
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Audience Reviews for The Celestine Prophecy

I don't know why I expect a film adaptation to do a book that I love justice. It's always the same high expectations, falling short. This however, takes bad transfers from page to screen to a whole new low. Based on James Redfield's 1993 bestselling novel it tells the story of high-school teacher John Woodson (Matthew

June 10, 2011
MrMarakai

Super Reviewer

The Celestine Prophecy has got to be the most boring film ever made. A total waste of time from start to finish. I never read the book, and won't after seeing this trash. But man was this film pointless and lame. I never seen something so crappy. The film has a terrible plot, and worse acting. I here the book is great,

July 22, 2011
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Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

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