Blade with Demons Instead of Vampires

Rating: 5/10 (19 February 2005)

My title pretty much sums it up.
Plot summary: Demons are trying to dominate the earth and a chosen one must stop them. (Replace Demons with Vampires, Nazis, Aliens, Spiders, Egg Beaters or whatever your whim and that will cover about 75% of these kinds of horror movies).
Here are the highlights and lowlights:
-The Devil was a great, sleazy, personification of a swindling, lounge lizard. One of the best devil depictions in film that I've seen.
-Decent special effects
-Predictable storyline
-Fine for a matinée, but I wouldn't pay full price
-I've seen worse
-Major plot inconsistency: If Angela could tune out the ghosts as a child, couldn't she do that again as an adult?
-Some super-fancy gadgets
-One of the characters is a black-market, religious weapons dealer who collects those moo-cow toys. He's interesting and the priest that hears the damned is interesting, but more time should have been taken with character development
If you're looking for a scary, Satan-taking-over-the-earth film, I suggest The Omen, Damien Omen II or The Prophecy.