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| Actor: Dennis Hopper
Studio: Digiview
Category: DVD
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 106438
Format: Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Unknown)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 0
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 105 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 872322005205
EAN: 0872322005205
ASIN: B000BCNCS4
Publication Date: 2004
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Product Description
A cunning serial killer known as The Prophet has apparently struck again, sending a cryptic postcard to a former detective. But There's a problem, the detective killed The Prophet several years ago. The detective must find if he has a copycat killer or he killed the wrong man.
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Moar liek "The Prophet's Lame," amirite? May 6, 2009
Robert Buchanan (Wisconsin)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A novel premise and clever plot are sacrificed on the altar of the direct-to-video phenomenon in this otherwise embarrassing feature. In a hopelessly cliched role as a troubled detective, Hopper investigates a serial murderer who provides clues to the identities of future victims via an online trivia game. Horribly shot, edited and scored, this movie's few assets are squandered by entirely incompetent execution. The film's performances don't help to alleviate its innumerable flaws; Hopper aside, the rest of the cast are well-nigh unwatchable. Unforgivably miscast, Zimbalist - of all people - struggles and fails to play an Italian with dyed black hair, an intermittent and atrocious excuse for a Brooklyn accent and the ridiculous name of Aldobrandi. Although the plot seems almost ingenious to a layman like me, murder mystery enthusiasts will probably find it as derivative as the stylistic plagiarization that's prominent throughout the film.
Those who choose to watch this (probably fans of Hopper, who are likely to pity him) might want to keep an eye open for an impressively inept performance by Patrick Swayze's younger brother, Don, as a god-fearing, child-abusing father. Not only does he strongly resemble his famous sibling, he gnaws the scenery with a rare ferocity.
Those who have viewed other Digiview budget discs will be familiar with the presentation of this one: 1.33:1 aspect ratio, six video thumbnails for scene selection and a "preview" video that shows numerous scenes from other titles in the Digiview catalog. Although the print from which this edition was sourced is a very gritty one, the video quality is quite good by Digiview standards; the compression artifacts of this disc aren't absent, but they are quite discreet.
 decent Hopper thriller July 4, 2007
David M. Rossi
The world seems to be separated into two groups of people.... those who like Dennis Hopper and those who don't. I am from the former rather than the latter so whenever he turns up in something new in theaters or on DVD, I check it out. Prophet's game, for some reason, is one movie that I didn't know about in its original release. If we are to believe there are as many serial killers out there as hollywood wishes for us to believe, society as a whole is in trouble. Sick of the serial killer movies as I am, I must say that Prophet's game is a very taut and well done movie overall, and that's great considering it was a straight to DVD release. Direction is good and the acting is also good, but the story could have used one more rewrite before going celluloid. Thats not to say the writing is bad, but some dialogue is questionable as is the case with many low budget films. Predictability wise, even fans of the genre will be surprised with the ending as it didn't end the way I predicted, and that alone almost merits another star in the rating. The reason I find it difficult to tack on one more star is the lack of star power other than Dennis Hopper. He really is a terrific everyman actor who deserves at least 1 more similar high caliber actor to play off of. I suppose though that I should be happy that Hopper is part of the cast at all as nowadays many of these features are hitting the video store shelves with nothing but no namers. Indeed, without Hopper, Prophet's game might have been a completely dismissable film, but with his charisma, it is elevated to a higher level, so kudos to the filmmakers for recognizing their movie needed Hopper. If you're not completely worn out from too many serial killer movies, go ahead and test run Prophet's game. Its a good thriller to use as a follow up to Seven or Kiss the Girls or Along came a spider or Saw or Bone Collector or Jill the Ripper or.....
 Edited December 3, 2005
Sensory Depravation (Central Illinois)
The Digiview Version of this title, all be it inexpensive, is an edited version. This decent "B" Title has been chopped to remove the nudity for this cheap DVD release.
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