Ending Ruined it for Me
The film has a great idea: 7 archangels and 7 fallen angels in purgatory fighting a war. 6 archangels have gone there and not returned to heaven - Gabriel is the last of the archangels to go. He is sent there to find the others and to help bring light back into purgatory. All the angels are in human form - hiding themselves from the humans.
I had some real issues with this film. Why have all the archangels become nothing? Uriel is a drunkard. Amatiel is a prostitute, druggy and lost her wings. Michael is pure evil - in fact you think he is Sammael until the very ending. Gabriel in the end kills himself? Since when are archangels so weak that they would succumb to the darkness?
Purgatory looks like some dark dystopian city on earth. Okay I get that, that is what Gabriel is sent in to do - clean it up but they never explain why he commits suicide in the end and light was never brought to purgatory. What this movie says is that the archangels could never defeat the fallen ones - and I don't necessarily agree with that.
What is good about the film - I can't think of anything. I agree with others that the film's cast/characters looks like they are extras in a Nine Inch Nails video. What a waste.
And that ending -- to find out Archangel Michael has become a fallen angel - then Gabriel commits suicide after killing Michael. A big NOPE for me.
1/10
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