igor_len Reviews

The Pope's Exorcist (2023)

Why?

[1/10 · 11 May 2023]

Why would someone waste time doing such superficial and bad movie? Another child possessed by a sweary demon? Another family that moves to a strange place? Another priest that rides a vespa?

Ok, that was the only new idea in the movie, but it didn't save the film, Russel.

So, old and superficial ideas badly developed. It's a story about the chief of the exorcists, man. Why did they use the same old story? Is the only one in that priest's books?

I understand that they tried to bring a different kind of prist, that had a different look to the situations, but the mix of little jokes and a such a superficial characters and situations just made it a bad movie.

They actually had the nerve to absolve the catolic church form the horrors of the inquisition. It was a "demon" that possessed the church, guys, not the persons that killed other people because o their on volition.

And, with no surprise, the demons that the priests face in the final battle had the shape of women. "but it's because of their's personal lives that...." Stop.

Is possible to make new stories. Good ones, please.

Escape Room (I) (2019)

Silly.

[1/10 · 8 September 2021]

They are trying too much to "innovate", but it just result in a weak effort. In the end there's nothing new, just a mix of other movies ideas.

Manhunter (1986)

A nice story, but not well told.

[5/10 · 4 October 2015]

First adaptation of the novel Red Dragon by Thomas Harris written. Analyzing the movie as a separate work, which is based on the novel but is not a mere reproduction of the book, it is possible to have a contemplative look about it, not just a comparative one. Thus, it is possible to judge the work by itself. The film's main character is the investigator Will Graham, owner of unique skills that is retired from the FBI. He is summoned to active duty to investigate a new series of murders and will count with the help of one of the psychopaths who he led to be arrested. The film describes this story in a too simple way, just touching the surface of the emotions of the characters rather than promoting a "dive" on them. Thus, the characters seem mere pieces of a game and not people involved in a plot that goes beyond the events we are told. The story is presented, but as it is not too developed, it doesn't captive.