The Seventh Sign is an apocalypse tale that tells of the seven signs of God or to be more precise the seven signs that foretell the end of the world, with the sun becoming black and the moon turning to blood and the boiling oceans that kill everything inside them, meanwhile Abbey Quinn (Demi Moore) is pregnant with her first child and her and her husband Russell a lawyer (Michael Biehn) take in an old man (Jurgen Prochnow) who may have more to him that what is seemed.
Going into this movie I was expecting a somewhat competent apocalyptic tale of death and destruction but something that would ultimately be forgettable but I was surprised by how much I got into this movie, it was I felt very well made, well directed with a nice sense of pathos and with some good performances from Moore, Biehn and Prochnow.
But I think what makes the film work as well as it does is the integration of the religious aspect regarding Judgment Day, not a new idea to be sure but here it seemed to have that feeling of believability to it with the quoting of the Bible and the use of the priests in a key role to the film's events, something that could've easily killed the movie if not done well but here is given the right treatment.
All in all, I found this to be a well made apocalypse tale with some good performances, certainly one of the better ones I've seen to be sure, 4 out of 5.
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