Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
A powerful biotech company has breakthrough technology allowing them to clone history’s most influential people with just a few fragments of DNA. Behind this company is a cabal of Satanists that steals the shroud of Christ, putting them in possession of Jesus’ DNA. The clone will serve as the ultimate offering to the devil. The Archangel Michael comes to earth and will stop at nothing to end the devil’s conspiracy.
The Devil Conspiracy has an admirably bonkers premise — cloning Jesus from the Shroud of Turin for a Satanic ritual, with Archangel Michael descending to stop it — that earns genuine Novelty points for its sheer audacity and genre-mashing ambition. The cinematography is competently staged with some visually ambitious supernatural sequences that rise above the material. However, the plot execution is messy and melodramatic, struggling to coherently juggle its theological sci-fi thriller ambitions; the scripting is clunky and characters are thinly drawn, dragging Acting performances down. The ending resolves in a fairly generic supernatural showdown that fails to capitalize on the wild premise's full potential.