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Tribulation
Apocalypse III: Tribulation

Canada 2000
produced by
Paul Lalonde, Peter Lalonde, Nicholas Tabarrok for Cloud Ten, Apocalypse Film Projects
directed by André van Heerden
starring Gary Busey, Howie Mandel, Nick Mancuso, Margot Kidder, Sherry Miller, Joseph Ziegler, Lawrence Bayne, Wayne Best, Costa Kamateros, Patrick Gallagher, Leigh Lewis, Nichole Nordeman, Jack Van Impe, Rexella Van Impe, T.D.Jakes, John Hagee, James Downing, Sugith Varughese, Gerry Quigley, Randy Butcher, Heather Hodgson, Darren Joseph, Kevin Rushton, Roy Lewis, Nigel Shawn Williams
written by Paul Lalonde, Peter Lalonde, music by Gary Koftinoff

Apocalypse/Tribulation-series

review by
Dale Pierce

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Gary Busey plays a cop named Tom and is in a situation himself, where art imitates real life in this movie. The actor was involved in a major crash some years ago, just as his character, who awakens after a lengthy time spent in a coma following a car wreck to find the world changed around him. His annoying Christian sister (played by Margot Kidder, a masterful perfromance, right down to the silly grin and glowing face) has been taken to be with Jesus as have all the other believers, leaving just the unforgiven sinners behind. It doesn't take the cop long to realize he doesn't think much of this new world either !

Tom finds himself at odds with the law he once enforced at every turn and starts to wonder if his goofy sister just may have been right after all. People are required to have an identification mark on their hands or heads in order to avoid execution. A helmet which enables the wearer to sell his soul to the antichrist becomes required headgear. A resistance is forming, headed by angry newscaster Helen Hannah (played by Leigh Lewis, a relatively obscure actress prior to this series). All signs point to an eventual knock down brawl pitting hell versus heaven, but alas that will be in another sequel, later down the road.

The key villain is played by Nick Mancuso as Franco Macalousso, a leering, giggling, snickering spawn of Satan who with the disappearance of the Christians, now has free reign to take over the world ... except for those annoying bornagainers who have found a new cause in opposing him and embracing Christianity. Try as he may, they just won't take his mark and just won't worship him. Killing them is like trying to kill a colony of ants. You get a couple and more just keep coming. In spite of this, he tries valiantly and violently to either convert or kill them, yet they just keep multiplying.

Naturally Tom finds Jesus at the end, as usually happens in these films, but the Antichrist is still out there and all has not been won yet. The Howie Mandel character , in a surprisingly serious role, finds Him too. Like I said, the resistance just keeps growing no matter how hard Macalousso tries to crush the movement.

Christians love this movie, for obvious reasons. As with other Cloud Ten pictures, if you get past some of the preachiness, agnostics and nonbelievers can enjoy the film too, simply as a good horror story. Mancuso's hamming it up as the Antichrist alone is worth watching. He is like part Stalin, part Idi Amin and part Bozo The Clown all rolled into one package.

One major flaw in this film is the fact that the Tom character is able to get up and walk after being in a coma, where in real life his leg msucles would have deteriorated badly and he never would have been able to move like in the film. The director, Van Heerden, makes note of this when called on it, saying there was no way around such an incident, the way the script existed. Weight lifting equipment and such was placed by his bed, indicating that since this is indeed taking place in the not so distant future, the doctors may have found a way to keep the leg muscles strong, even in a man dead to the world ... either that or one can cop out and say God let it happen that way !

In all, there's a lot of action in this flick and enough good plot to keep everyone happy. You find yourself wanting more and wondering what will happen to the characters in the future. Sequels tell some of this for you and more seem to be planned to draw things to a close.

Odds are they will have Jesus and the good guys win in the last part of the series, conclusively and triumphantly.

Poor Macalousso.

 

 

review © by Dale Pierce

 

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