The Exorcist: Believer

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Exorcist

Exorcist

Good movie!

I tried to like it, but after some 10 minutes into the movie I began to fear that this was a complete and utter dud. And it turned out I was right. The bad: it is suppose to be horror, but it isnt horrifying for one minute. A bit freaky and strange, but definitely not scary. And I wanna get scared watching such a movie. That is the whole point of making horror movies. More bad: besides a wonderful performance by the ever great Ellen Burstyn, none of the other actors impressed me. The 2 kids, who were possessed were okay, but not terrific either. But the other actors were plain average or even below average. Defnitely an insult to the classic original from 1973, which was an absolute shocker of a classic!

95 minutes of plot building for a 10 minutes exorcist that was literally the lamest and most boring I've ever seen. And there wasn't even any plot. Nothing was explained about the demon, it's intentions or where it came from. There were no meaningful conversations with the possessed, no head spinning, no vomiting... The trailer was false advertising. No jump scares, no tension building, 1 death... just utter droll. The popes exorcist was better than this and it was lame too compared to Emily Rose and the original. I'm not sure what they were writing here but it wasn't a horror movie. Had me reaching for my phone a dozen times I was so bored.

What a whatever of a movie. The Exorcist: Believer is another entry in this series that honestly, beyond the 1973 original, is not very good. I know Exorcist III has its fans, and there were parts of that one I liked, but it's still got nothing on the first one. Every other movie in the series falls somewhere between interesting failure and absolute disaster. The scariest part of this was hoping a very frail-looking Ellen Burstyn wouldn't fall over (she's in her 90s!). I felt bad for her being in this - they don't give her much to do, but she still gives the closest thing to a decent performance in this. There are other cast members here like Leslie Odom Jr. And Ann Dowd who I know have been good in other movies, but don't turn in great performances here. It plays things as safe as an Exorcist movie can. There are still things in that original film that are shocking to see and think about to this day. And yet with the first movie, it's essentially a compelling drama that also happens to be scary. Whenever The Exorcist: Believer tries to get you to care from a dramatic perspective, it falls flat. I also didn't find much of the intended horror scary. It delivers nothing any number of demonic possession movies haven't already done, and the jump scares (they're pretty common in the first half) are even pretty lazy and failed to make me jump. This movie is boring and predictable, badly paced, not very scary, poorly shot and edited at times, and fails to have much by way of good acting. I dislike it the more I think about it. Yeah right this is going to be the start of a new trilogy - get out of here!

Good movie!