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Snow Queen (2002)
Cut out the middle and you would have a good movie
This movie is sweet and touching and even a bit frightening at times, but that is purely at the beginning and end. The middle three vignettes in which the heroine meets the spring, summer, and autumn witches is too long, too unnecessary, and tedious and boring. The acting is fine throughout, the premise is interesting, but the middle seems like pieces out of another movie cobbled in. It breaks the flow and comes across as rather ludicrous. It is almost as if someone mistakenly stuck a couple of reels of a kids movie into the middle of an adult movie.
Overall I would suggest this as a decent girl's sleepover movie if you didn't actually expect them to watch the movie. It could be easily edited down into a good movie. It's a shame the length and content is just too over the top and destroys a fine love fantasy.
The Rite (2011)
One of the Finest Exorcism Movies in a Long Time
This movie took my breath away. The acting was superb from the children up to Sir Hopkins. This movie presents its subject matter without prejudice or condemnation. The Church is not the bad guy nor is it powerless and in so many movies. Some of the hows and whys are left deliberately vague which adds to the realism. The scenery is gorgeous, the filming skillful and careful balancing the beauty of the location with the way shadows can make the ordinary seem ominous. Vivid and intense are the words that best describe this movie. I could watch it over and over. It is not a rip off of the Exorcist nor does it use any of the shock scenes that movie made famous. Anyone who likes realistic and unrelenting supernatural terror will love this movie if they just give it a chance.
The Prophecy: Uprising (2005)
Not Like the Others but Good
It's true this movie has basically nothing to do with the previous ones in the series, but it is still quite good.
The only ties to the previous Prophecy movies is a brief internet chat with someone who might be Joseph, the angel Simon, (we are supposing it is the same one who died in the first movie even though we saw his heart ripped out, and the black void where eyes should be. Of course there is the war between angels and the monkey references but in truth this could be an entirely separate film and might have done better if it were.
Kari Wuhrer was fantastic. The new Satan while perhaps less evil feeling than Vito's is more charismatic and comes across as sincere, the essence of the devil as the greatest lier of all. The acting was by and large good, the scenery lovely and striking, the story rich and engaging.
If you are looking for Gabriel and the other angels, they aren't here. Other than Simon, this one is about devils instead, but it really delivers in all the areas that matter. There is very minimal gore, quite a bit of bad language, no comedy to break the mood, and one or two disturbing scenes.
If you like movies such as The Omen, The Rite, Perfect Creatures, and The Exorcist give this one a chance.