Eric looks really good in this one. He looks great in fencing clothes and does that arrogant fencer's swagger very well. But I've watched this movie twice, the second time assisted by a fencer, and we're pretty sure that Eric isn't doing a whole lot of fencing. Someone is fencing but how often do you actually see his face and his foil in the same frame? All 91 minutes may not have been Eric but it's still well worth watching.

Some people may not believe James Earl Jones as a karate coach (I'm crazy about him so I'll believe anything) and some people may wonder who gave poor Sally Kirkland those silly lines but Eric Roberts doing karate was really convincing. Eric has been asked in an interview if he is a karate expert and has declined to answer, so maybe he is and maybe he isn't but he sure looks good and he's on screen for most of the 106 minutes.

In this one Eric plays Saint Michael. Unlike the Bible version of Michael as God's hitman or the recent John Travolta version, this Michael is a little depressed. He's been losing to Satan for about 1000 years and I think it's got him down. Russel Wong stars as one very sexy archangel Daniel and Christopher Walken reprises his role from Prophecy as Gabriel.

This movie is rated R for violence, gore and one strong sex scene in which the earth truely does move!!! Oh, God, Yes!

Sorry, almost forgot! Eric was in this movie for about 3 minutes.

In this movie Michael Rossi (Eric) falls in love with sweet Irina (Diane Lane) and is taken home to meet her weird father, Florian Stroia (George C. Scott). Old Florian turns out to be a very nasty dude indeed and Eric has to bring him down or die trying. In the hall of Florian's house hangs a huge icon of Saint Michael. Get it? The old battle between good and evil. Eric was in the whole movie AND gets to play the good guy.

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