Maybe I've expected too much

Rating: 8/10 (6 April 2001)

Well this movie is called genial and so on, but in fact, it wasn't that exciting to me. My reference for movies like this is still 'Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)', and 'The Exorcist' cannot at all be compared to that one.
It is simply far to explicit, and works with direct effects, instead of giving you a feeling of horror without any escape. When the people leave the room with the child, the devil simply has no more influence on them, and when they're in the room, I missed a lot of interesting psychological fights. In fact, when the exorcism itself starts, the end comes soon and suddenly, and left me quite dissatisfied.
The movie has however a very good development in suspense. The beginning was simply perfect, with a very subtle danger, and everything could still be well explained. But then the movie becomes too less subtle, even if it still remains on a high level.
Another major weakness in the movie was the fact, that one of the exorcists works as a psychologist, and is called a very good one multiple times during the movie, but behaves like anyone but a person with high psychological intelligence.
I don't like most horror movies in general, and I did an exception to watch this one, but it was not really worth it. 'The Blair Witch Project (1999)' offered more realism, 'The Negotiator (1998)' offered a far, far better psychology.