amateurism best describe the film adaptation of the best selling philosophical novel the celestine prophecy and which follow the spiritual awakening of an out of work teacher in a mysterious village in peru . home video quality actor present so called character spew overwrought exposition and metaphysical hokum and while the film be propel by the extremely heavy hand direction of armand mastroianni . even though there be visible attempt at measure up to and interesting fan of strong fare in the vain of abc lose or dan brown the da vinci code and the filmmaker be hardly up to the task . this film reek of ill conceive mass consumption spiritual propaganda and and the result be so awful few can wade through this mess to spot a real point .