The nonsense in the last third sinks this.
20 April 2023
Warning: Spoilers
There is a brief nude scene (one hour into the movie) showing Demi fully pregnant. I checked her bio and it turns out she gave birth to Rumer Willis the same year this movie was released. However, the movie came out in April, whereas Rumer was born in August, so the stomach has to be fake.

As for the breasts? Who knows. Her natural breasts are small, B size at the very most, yet here they seem larger. When did she get her awful implants?

Not nearly as relevant as the Apocalypse, I know, but still: we the audiences have the right to know these crucial things.

A weird sub-plot shows up early on involving a Down Syndrome kid who faces execution because he killed his parents "in the name of God". Utter rubbish, of course: no 80s California that I know of would have sentenced to death such a kid, regardless whom he killed. No other U. S. state either. Compounding this nonsense is the fairly far-fetched notion of a Down Syndrome person killing anyone. In fact, has such a case ever even been recorded?

The conversation between him and his lawyer is ludicrous too. Biehn is using legalese terminology and this kid understands it! The writer wanted a Down Syndrome character (just for kicks) but one who isn't mentally impaired. So stupid. The guy who wrote this script clearly knows less about Down Syndrome than I know about building Mars rockets. I get it: the 5th seal was this innocent being executed by a "corrupt world" or whatever, but this sub-plot could have been handled differently, and far less idiotically. For a movie that wants to be taken seriously as an apocalyptic horror film - as opposed to a comedy - they sure risked a lot with this needless nonsense. The last 3rd of the movie suffers for it. For someone who has worked with Down Syndrome people, I find this whole thing utterly dumb.

I struggle to understand why the immortal Roman soldier (the murderer) felt the need to approach Demi. What was his motive? To warn her? Why warn her? It makes no sense.
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