Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Bloodwank 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.

sjl_prodigynet I have watched this film several times and each time I see something new, a correlation between one part and another, the tour guide at Rennes Le Château seen at the beginning when the New Age Man searches for clues to return the Loculus later placing the last brick over the alcove enclosing the pleading Curé, and what I think is Mira, as Mary Magdalene, weeping and embracing the base of The Cross. True, the dialog could be occasionally contrived ("I, Newton, am certain of this..."), but all in all, it stands up to repeated viewing. The only thing is that I am sure footage was cut prior to release that provided back-stories for some of the loose ends. It is a shame that the film was not based on a book, because I would love to read that book.

generationofswine I'd give this a seven out of ten, just to spite the people that have hacked it to death. Yes the movie is cliché, but the "Da Vinci Code" was also cliché & as a historian I can say that it is a very old cliché. But like anything that has been around that long, it's still there because it has stood the test of time. It's a story you've probably heard before, but at the least it's an entertaining story.I took the wrong type of job, I work in academia, I have to deal with friends that go see the latest art house films. I have to read long in depth historical analysis by people that want to be avante garde & still remain politically correct. That being said, if I can come across a book or a movie that does nothing but entertain me, I'll give it props."Revelation" is entertaining & it's entertaining throughout. It has it's great conspiracy moments, it's narrow escapes, it's cheesy special effects, and enough fun to keep you watching. I'll openly agree that some things could have been better, but then "The Da Vinci Code," was shot better & had better acting, but wasn't nearly as entertaining.I had a great time watching this, it's the type of movie I stayed up late to catch on HBO when I was a kid. Sure, I would have absolutely loved it when I was ten but I still liked it when it came out when I was twenty-one. Not many movies can do that, save "The Monster Squad," and "Goonies," but those are both movies of a far higher caliber.

LaFeeChartreuse Having thoroughly enjoyed this film, I was astonished to see the many negative reviews and overall low rating it got here, though I did note that opinion was mixed.I do think you probably have to have an interest in the subject matter - alchemy, occult orders, mediaeval magic, etc. - to get much out of it. The fact that those topics do interest me was a big part of the film's appeal, but even apart from that I thought it was well done. Perhaps not enough so to grab the attention of the casual viewer who doesn't know alchemy from Alka-Seltzer, but enough not to disappoint anyone with a serious interest.The film is an absorbing, challenging thriller, with enough twists and turns to keep you guessing, and some beautiful visuals. The acting is mixed - some characters were very convincing, others less so. The special features on the DVD added a lot to it - it was interesting finding out just how much of the background of the story was based on history, even though the main body of the plot itself was completely fictional. Overall I'd call it a film best viewed by a limited audience. If you don't have an active interest in the subject matter and are just looking for entertainment, you probably won't get much out of it. But if you do, it's well worth checking out.