The Minion is a 1998 movement supernatural horror movie directed by Jean-Marc Piché
The Minion is a 1998 movement supernatural horror movie directed by Jean-Marc Piché and starring Dolph Lundgren and Françoise Robertson. It became released to tv and video in numerous nations.Plot[edit]
The movie’s plot revolves around the coming of the Apocalypse, heralded via the upcoming liberation of the Antichrist from the depths of Hell via a sure gateway at the near of 1 full millennium. This gate can best be opened via a special key, which has been kept guarded by way of the order of the Templars (who on this model existed because the ultimate days of Jesus). The key in turn is sought out by means of the servant of the Antichrist, actually called the Minion, a demonic spirit that transfers itself into the subsequent to be had host frame while his preceding one is killed off. His first attempt to gain the important thing at the close of the year 999 is foiled; the only surviving Templar of the company charged with hiding the important thing subsequently takes off with a ship to the west, to what was at that point known as the “quit of the world”, to maintain it from the Minion’s hold close.
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A thousand years later, close to Christmas of 1999, city engineer workers by chance discover a hidden Templar burial chamber beneath New York City. A Mohawk archeologist, Karen Goodleaf, is tasked with the analyzing the chamber and its contents, while the Minion assaults. Before he can claim the important thing, but, he’s stopped by a man sporting a clergyman’s outfit who kills the Minion’s host frame with a blow from a spiked gauntlet to the neck after which takes the important thing for himself. Confused, Karen chases after the person, who sooner or later introduces himself as Lukas Sadorov, a Templar and previous Speznas who deserted the Soviet army after witnessing a massacre of civilians in Afghanistan and changed into despatched by using the top of his order to get better the important thing. Karen insistently tags along with Lukas and ultimately profits his trust. After having seen the Minion in action, she proposes they cover the important thing in a nuclear waste depository built at the grounds of her youth reservation domestic, whose lingering radioactivity would theoretically save you the Minion’s host bodies from claiming it. She enlists the assist of her grandfather, Michael Bear, a Mohawk shaman who works as a foreman on the depository plant, with the intention to gain get entry to to the power.
However, the Minion time and again takes over people who unwittingly come into touch along with his previous host bodies, enabling him to hold his relentless pursuit. He eventually takes over Karen’s former archeology show Professor Schulman, who’s assisting the NYPD within the research of the obvious serial murder case, and hints the police into establishing a manhunt on Lukas. After killing Karen’s grandfather and donning his radiation fit as a hide, he tricks Lukas into giving him the key and escapes with it to Jerusalem, the location of the Templar’s sanctuary and the gate to Hell hidden inside its crypts.
The Minion arrives at the Templars’ headquarters simply before Lukas and Karen do, taking the Templars via surprise and killing most of them. Bernhard, one of the Templar Knights, manages to kill the Minion’s host, however in his eagerness to show himself better than Lukas, he by chance permits the Minion to take ownership of him and accordingly insert the key into the gate. Lukas and Karen arrive rapidly after, and even as Karen tries to get rid of the important thing from the lock, Lukas battles the possessed Bernhard and kills him. Together, he and Karen, despite the fact that tempted through the Antichrist himself, control to save you the gate’s unlocking simply earlier than the final seal on the door is burst. With the Templars decimated, Lukas comes to a decision to rebuild the order, and Karen decides to enroll in him, marking the sunrise of a new era of Templars to defend the gate and the important thing.Cast[edit]Reception[edit]Critical reaction[edit]
Robert Pardi of TV Guide said in his high quality evaluate that “Despite its bible-bending flights of fancy, this nail-biter builds hobby in its supernatural fiend. The tale itself isn’t plenty, but the film’s employees have studied the scripture of how to craft rock ’em, sock ’em motion sequences.”[1][2]TheActionElite.com gave it 2 out of five and criticized “Its boring tempo and shortage of movement make it a chore to get through so go watch End of Days again as an alternative.”[3]References[edit]External links[edit]
- The Minion at IMDb
- The Minion at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Minion at AllMovie
