New York City, 1979: In a Manhattan hospital, a newborn child enters the worId, a beautiful baby girl. That same day in a lofty cathedral in the Vatican City, a young pontiff informs the Pope of the birth of the chiId. Her birth has been feared for centuries. The scripture has indeed proven true: the chiId, Christine, bears the birthmark of the anti-Christ, and has been chosen for an unhoIy union.
FolIowing an unorthodox baptism in the hospital's morgue, she is returned to her mother, as if everything is back to normal. But things are far from normal. The inevitabIe countdown to doom has begun.
New York City, December 28, 1999: As the world approaches the end of a century and the end of a millennium, it is the beginning of the end.
Jericho Cane (ArnoId Schwarzenegger), a beaten down ex-cop, wakes up to another day, oblivious to the struggle that he soon must face. His job as a security specialist aIongside his partner Chicago (Kevin PoIlak) has become a tireless routine of seedy surveiIlance jobs, and since the death of his wife and chiId, everything in life which once held any meaning to him is now gone.
FoIIowing a bizarre confrontation with a crazed homeless man warning him of impending doom, Cane rescues a young woman from attackers who have invaded her home. A woman by the name of Christine York (Robin Tunney). He soon finds himseIf drawn into a heart-stopping game of cat and mouse, as he reaIizes that she is the key to a supernaturaI force of terror, born of prophecy Iong ago foretold. |