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Short Take: The writing is vague and unpolished, but the ambition is evident

Director: Scott Stewart (feature debut)

Screenwriters: Peter Schink (Gotham Café) and Scott Stewart

Cast: Paul Bettany (The Da Vinci Code), Adrianne Palicki, Lucas Black (Jarhead), Charles S. Dutton (Rudy), Kate Walsh (TV’s Private Practice), Dennis Quaid (The Alamo), Tyrese Gibson (Transformers 2), Willa Holland, Kevin Durand (3:10 to Yuma)

Length: 1h 40m

Synopsis: After many years of violence, tyranny, apathy, and greed, God has decided to exterminate the human race for a second time. But instead of a flood, this time he sends his army of angels to possess the weak-willed and kill the would-be savior of men – an unborn child. The archangel Michael, though, refuses to give up on mankind and refuses to carry out his orders to destroy it. Instead, he takes it upon himself to be the protector of the unborn savior, in the process accepting the help of a handful of strong-willed, albeit unprepared, individuals.

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