Routinary stuff

Rating: 4/10 (1 March 2005)

I had more expectations from the trailers. The plot is simplistic and inconsistent, a lot of special effects, actors playing below their standards. Not a religious movie, not a blasphemy, mediocre is the word that I've got for it. The story flows jerkily without big surprises.
The old battle between well and evil and the battlefield is our world, fallen angels which betray their heavenly nature, daemons which possess young girls, exorcisms, timid catholic priest with drinking problems. You can even find a relic with magic powers wrapped in a Nazi flag. Take Dogma, Indiana Jones, The Exorcist, and another couple of movies, put them in the mixer, and you have something pretty close.
The movie lacks a sparkle of life. It is in the same line as Dogma, but at least that movie was sometimes hilarious, this is serious, grave. If you decide not to see it, don't give it a second thought.