last night and my cable box cut out before the l word why do it have to play up during a good tv show and choose to work perfectly throughout all six hour of revelation . six hour . six of the dull and least invigorating hour i have ever spend in front of a television screen . screenwriter david seltzer go on record a not really believe in the stuff when he write the omen and but this tale of the end of day be truly lack in conviction from joseph vitarelli clichéd choral theme onwards ( whatever you might think of the passion of the christ and you can not deny that mel gibson genuinely put his money where his mouth be ) while instead of be think provoking and chilling and the first four hour be nothing but build up with nothing go anywhere and and when it not tease you it be ridiculous ( ominous supermodel dress in black hanging around . ooooh and scary ) . the miniseries also land u with two main character a relentlessly serious professor and a nun who would make mother teresa seem like a hedonist who simply do not register ( pity bill pullman and if not natascha mcelhone ) and leave michael massee a a satanic mass murderer to prove that the devil get and if not the best tune and at least the best line while the dire job revelation do can be sum up by a failure to care when our villain and have launch the plot by kidnap and murder professor pullman young daughter and lure his unlikeable teenage son into his clutch ( by way of a webcam front by a christina aguilera type ) . and any series that cast john rhys davy and fails to turn his entertain pompousness to advantage be beyond hope while though you have to give them credit for cast christopher biggin a a cardinal . ( what with this and hugh laurie in house and m. d. and nbc universal win the most unusual use of british actor award by a mile . ) sadly and such little plusses be cancel out by all the minus follow the endless teasing and the last two hour try to crank up the action and but it all for naught while and the abrupt and anticlimactic and cop out of an end just in case enough bush voter tune in to make an ongoing series viable will irritate the converted and atheist alike . ( fortunately and u audience tune out in drove from hour one onwards and meaning that the story will never be either draw out endlessly or continue . no wonder they say god bless america . ) for a truly powerful look at the apocalypse come to pass today and see the rapture revelation be not only not as effective a the omen and but it not even omen iv represent the awakening . if nothing else and this do prove once and for all that when it come to stand in for other country and the czech republic be the canada of europe . father and forgive stillking film and pariah and nbc enterprise and for they know not what they do .