The Celestine Prophecy (2006)

Don't listen to the negative reviews

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

For me, it is a seductive invitation for read the book. because it is too difficult to give the right adaptation for "The Celestine Prophecy". and, if you do not read the book, all is reduced at noble message and gorgeous images. but it is more. this is the lead motif for who I am not convince to compare the book and its adaptation. becaus, director,, actors, cinematography , each, together are parts from an admirable project and it is a big mistake to pretend more. the choice is your - a real usefull book and a beautiful film. as pieces of the same thing. who has many opportunities. to change yourself.

You know there are movies that are really good, but are quite low rated because most of the people who watched them did not really get it and couldn't swallow the intellectual deepness which is sometimes hidden in symbolism. Like for example Eden Log, "9", Watchmen or La planète sauvage a.k.a. fantastic planet. I thought that this movie could be one of those. But I failed. I haven't read the book and I won't because of this movie. And now something that I always say about movies that are based on books: "Maybe the movie isn't that bad, possibly it's an awesome adaption, but maybe it's just the book that's a big load of $h**."Now about the movie itself: The story was told in a confusing way. The situations were not realistic, but that kind of sci-fi unrealistic - it was just nonsense. The acting and the lines were bad. The music was something like what I used to listen to easier fall asleep some years ago. The whole plot and actions were not believable. For example: Character 1: Look between your fingers, now you can see the energy floating between them. Character 2: OK now I can. And he could through the whole movie! What a mess! Like "oh now you have a superpower" "oh you are right - now I have it" .... And the whole film is like that... "Oh there are cryptic signs that nobody is able to read." "Oh wait now I can read them because I believe I can."... I'm sorry I'm someone who is not some kind of a scientist-man, I know a lot about spirituality, Buddhism, meditation, mysticism and different esoteric things but man - you gotta at least try to give a someway reasonable explanation, but what was way too much even for me.Simply don't watch, it's not worth your time. And it will probably ruin your point of view about spirituality which this movie is certainly NOT about... It's more like some kind of I believe I can superhero magic without explanations.

I have just seen this movie and have not read the book. The good thing of the movie is that at some parts it gets you thinking for a little while on the spiritual subject, evolution, synchronicity and your part in the world.However, the movie's immersion is easily broken and there is very little rapport between the viewer and the characters. It is very clear that the book looses a lot in this movie version. The events that were suppose to show synchronicity taking place are almost unrecognizable. A lot of reasoning has to be done for the viewer to see that the scene indicates a coincidence, and even more to imagine that it has something to do with a greater purpose. Enlightenment scenes are visually poor and do not create the better feeling that it was supposed to. Do you recall the enlightenment with Keanu Reeves (in Little Buddha) ? Well, this is nothing like that.Most scenes are poorly executed. There are a lot of scenes that really don't develop the story and also do not help in creating an atmosphere.The better actors in this movie, namely Hector Elizondo, Joaquim de Almeida and Jürgen Prochnow cannot save it. The first 2 seem to have gotten more scenes than their characters should in an attempt to save the movie, and because they were paid more, but this does not work. Most of the scenes are not really necessary and do not help the story at all.Jürgen does good in his scenes and sells as an evil guy (as always), but the script does not help him at all. The scene where he first tries to convince John (Matthew Settle) to join him is just bad script. The execution of the scene when he dies in an explosion is absurdly bad executed. The flashbacks throughout the movie cannot even be commented.Overall this movie is a big waste of time, read the book! I have not read it, but it is probably a billion times better than this, it has to be.It is so bad that I had to write my first comment in IMDb.

The movie has the intuition about the Kundalini awakening that is achievable by masses through the method of Sahaja Yoga meditation developed by H.S.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, http://www.sahajayoga.org The energy that is referred to by all the characters involved in the plot is Kundalini, the sacred glimpse of divinity that is lying dormant in the sacrum bone at the base of the spinal chord. When Kundalini rises, the connection or union (in Sanskrit, yoga) between the individual and the all-pervading energy (in Sanskrit, paramchaitanya) takes place. Thus, the enhancement in the perception of reality occurs. In the state of yoga, the mind is very still and devoid of thoughts. This is suggested in the movie by the fact that the characters are invisible to their enemies. However, the enhancement in the perception does not lead to the alteration of colors and lights, as it is suggested through a few scenes which might be rather influenced by people who have had experiences with drugs, such as LSD. I have given a 5 out of 10 to this movie because it contains all the elements of a great quest, but it fails to deliver the message that the Saint Graal is actually within the human being. This message is actually altered by the usage of the element made up by the scrolls, which in my opinion should have been seen as an instrument rather than a goal in themselves.What is great about this movie, however, is the fact that it emphasizes the idea that only through collective meditation it is possible to obtain the transformation. The movie does not use the symbol of a singular hero looking for enlightenment, but rather it suggests that the time has come for everybody to test the reality of this experience. This is exactly what the Kundalini awakening through Sahaja Yoga meditation is all about.