I like Stellan Skarsgård and as usual he gives a solid performance here. The rest of the cast are fine and the films movies along nicely. The first half sets everything up, and the scenes where they are excavating a Byzantine church are very creepy. But it seems to be the second half of the film that starts to..not fall apart exactly, but it becomes rather unevenly paced. Also the shoddy special effects don't help. Billy Crawford who plays Cheche, a young disabled outcast, is fine in the role, but after a while it becomes almost comical. While watching it, I kept thinking that the original Exorcist was so much better. It just lacked the scare factor that the original still to this day has.
I am wondering if the movie had been a little tighter and the effects a tad better, would I have enjoyed it more? Maybe. It's not a bad film, it is just that the first Exorcist and the third one were both just so much better. Still, it's not bad, it just isn't as creepy as it could have been.
I am wondering if the movie had been a little tighter and the effects a tad better, would I have enjoyed it more? Maybe. It's not a bad film, it is just that the first Exorcist and the third one were both just so much better. Still, it's not bad, it just isn't as creepy as it could have been.