The Exorcist: Believer - Worth a Watch?
What should you expect?
I don’t know where to start with this movie. The first
three quarters of this movie were sleep-inducing. The ending picked it up a bit
but there were also lots wrong with it. The characters were boring and flat. There was not a lot of scary or creepy elements. The plot seemed to go from A to B almost immediately without much reason. A
lack of cohesion and depth prevented this movie from achieving anything. It mainly
seemed confused and underwhelming. My opinion, in terms of whether its worth a
watch, is that this movie was just trying to make money-absolutely not worth a
watch. The trailer is all you need to see. This should have just went straight Netflix and not bothered with the cinema. This is not a good horror film.
Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIxpPMyGcpU
Ratings
Overall Rating-2/10-Unfortunalty, this film just
didn’t deliver.
Scare Factor-3/10-The trailer showed the jumpscares and they were mild at best.
Acting-3/10-Completely forgettable characters with flat acting.
Loopholes-3/10-The plot didn’t make much sense.
Did my Partner Fall Asleep? Yes. I was close as well.
Scare Factor-3/10-The trailer showed the jumpscares and they were mild at best.
Acting-3/10-Completely forgettable characters with flat acting.
Loopholes-3/10-The plot didn’t make much sense.
Did my Partner Fall Asleep? Yes. I was close as well.
Wondering what the critics thought? Check out the IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes pages below;
Rotten Tomatoes - https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_exorcist_believer
Post-Movie Discussion
The plot seemed clueless and rushed. The movie’s
introduction was the most interesting part. It was followed by kids going
missing in the woods, about a minute that glanced over how the parents were
reacting to the idea that they may never see their children again, kids are
found and are sent home very quickly from hospital without any support despite
obvious signs of trauma. The parents are just ignoring the strange behaviour of
their children (where did Kathrine get all the blood from in the church?)
before sending them back to hospital and then to a psychiatric hospital. After Victor
takes 4 seconds to be convinced that his daughter is possessed, he removes her
from the psychiatric ward, convinces Kathrine’s parents to do the same,
literally bolts the children to the floor and has a weird ensemble of religious
individuals which just kind of spawned in to do their own attempted exorcisms.
At the end of the movie, I just can’t see how the chain of events are coherent
and how that is where it ended up.
The characters were so flat that the trauma they had dealt with was their only personality trait. Almost everyone was unlikable and acted like morons. The ending relied on the fact that there were two children’s lives at stake, although they were still strangers to the audience as they had not been explored to any depth. All of the parents were idiots and it seemed like the Kathrine’s parents were set up to be the fall guys, because again, they were flat. Her dad acted like a baby the whole time and made all the poor decisions so that the audience wouldn’t feel so bad the Kathrine died. Not good at all.
The characters were so flat that the trauma they had dealt with was their only personality trait. Almost everyone was unlikable and acted like morons. The ending relied on the fact that there were two children’s lives at stake, although they were still strangers to the audience as they had not been explored to any depth. All of the parents were idiots and it seemed like the Kathrine’s parents were set up to be the fall guys, because again, they were flat. Her dad acted like a baby the whole time and made all the poor decisions so that the audience wouldn’t feel so bad the Kathrine died. Not good at all.
