adie_stone
Joined Dec 2007
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adie_stone's rating
It's not half as bad as what some people would want you to believe.
The pacing is fine, it builds the story up however it is one of those films that avoid putting the demon and titular exorcist/exorcism up front and centre like the original film. Instead it builds on the other characters in the movie, leaving an exorcism that doesn't take long and isn't that interesting other than visually.
The actors were all great, and as everyone by now knows, they brought back Ellen Burstyn to play Chris MacNeil. She was and wasn't a pointless addition, ultimately the story for her goes nowhere so in that case, pointless, but she's brought back in for a good reason and wants to help the parents exorcise their kids demons, fleshing out more what her character is now like years later after her own child was possessed.
The direction and editing, spot on.
Except they included some pointless scenes such as when one person dies, them being dragged to hell.
It does also include stupidity, like a nurse trying to use defibrillators on someone already flatlined.
Being a nurse, she should know that's not how they work.
Either way, it was still a good start to a new trilogy. It's nowhere near as good as the first, the third and first season of the series but is much better than the second film or either of the prequels. I'd say it's on par with the second season of the series, good but not that good.
Make up your own mind, don't listen to the naysayers nor the praisers. That's how I went in and thought yeah, not bad.
The pacing is fine, it builds the story up however it is one of those films that avoid putting the demon and titular exorcist/exorcism up front and centre like the original film. Instead it builds on the other characters in the movie, leaving an exorcism that doesn't take long and isn't that interesting other than visually.
The actors were all great, and as everyone by now knows, they brought back Ellen Burstyn to play Chris MacNeil. She was and wasn't a pointless addition, ultimately the story for her goes nowhere so in that case, pointless, but she's brought back in for a good reason and wants to help the parents exorcise their kids demons, fleshing out more what her character is now like years later after her own child was possessed.
The direction and editing, spot on.
Except they included some pointless scenes such as when one person dies, them being dragged to hell.
It does also include stupidity, like a nurse trying to use defibrillators on someone already flatlined.
Being a nurse, she should know that's not how they work.
Either way, it was still a good start to a new trilogy. It's nowhere near as good as the first, the third and first season of the series but is much better than the second film or either of the prequels. I'd say it's on par with the second season of the series, good but not that good.
Make up your own mind, don't listen to the naysayers nor the praisers. That's how I went in and thought yeah, not bad.
I don't know what they were thinking having this episode as the first of a new season, or having it at all for that matter.
The first story starts off interesting and then becomes the most boring thing I've ever seen, it leads up to nothing and was pretty pointless overall. It needed to be lengthened to actually have an ending!
The second part, though having a decent premise, it was executed extremely poorly and the characters didn't act like we would in the real world, yeah I know, it's fictional but when there's no intelligence whatsoever, it gets a bit silly.
Would you just stand there when something bad is happening? Screaming at it? No, you'd either say something or run away depending on what it was. I'm not spoiling it despite that it really wouldn't matter if I did.
The first story starts off interesting and then becomes the most boring thing I've ever seen, it leads up to nothing and was pretty pointless overall. It needed to be lengthened to actually have an ending!
The second part, though having a decent premise, it was executed extremely poorly and the characters didn't act like we would in the real world, yeah I know, it's fictional but when there's no intelligence whatsoever, it gets a bit silly.
Would you just stand there when something bad is happening? Screaming at it? No, you'd either say something or run away depending on what it was. I'm not spoiling it despite that it really wouldn't matter if I did.
Not even so bad it's good, it's just bad.
Everything is over exaggerated, I have no idea what they were going for. In parts it's like they were trying to be serious, in others it was as if they said screw it, let's make the most hammed up ridiculous film we can make.
Absolutely nothing sticks and everything stinks.
All but one of the actors were atrocious, seriously, only one of them could actually act.
The dialogue is hilariously bad, not a single conversation in the film would happen in real life.
It's a shame because the premise was decent, by the right people it could have been great, alas it was far from it.
Avoid like the plague.
Everything is over exaggerated, I have no idea what they were going for. In parts it's like they were trying to be serious, in others it was as if they said screw it, let's make the most hammed up ridiculous film we can make.
Absolutely nothing sticks and everything stinks.
All but one of the actors were atrocious, seriously, only one of them could actually act.
The dialogue is hilariously bad, not a single conversation in the film would happen in real life.
It's a shame because the premise was decent, by the right people it could have been great, alas it was far from it.
Avoid like the plague.