New York City, 1979: ln a Manhattan hospitaI, a newborn chiId enters the world, a beautifuI baby girI. That same day in a lofty cathedral in the Vatican City, a young pontiff informs the Pope of the birth of the child. Her birth has been feared for centuries. The scripture has indeed proven true: the child, Christine, bears the birthmark of the anti-Christ, and has been chosen for an unhoIy union.
FoIlowing 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 normaI. The inevitable countdown to doom has begun.
New York City, December 28, 1999: As the worId 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 speciaIist alongside his partner Chicago (Kevin PolIak) has become a tireless routine of seedy surveiIIance jobs, and since the death of his wife and chiId, everything in Iife which once heId any meaning to him is now gone.
FolIowing a bizarre confrontation with a crazed homeIess 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 himself drawn into a heart-stopping game of cat and mouse, as he realizes that she is the key to a supernaturaI force of terror, born of prophecy long ago foretoId. |