If Inception was a psychological horror movie this would be it. Not in terms of the quality of the overal movie but merely due to it having so many layers to it. Layers that might be obvious to many and a wee bit on the nose but a damn fine layer cake nonetheless. Russel Crowe, an actor, plays an actor who - like Russel Crowe - has had a severe drinking problem and is facing his demons. Demons that are portrayed in a movie that grabs from other movies in this actual movie. A movie that comes almost right after another movie about exorcism and demons where Crowe plays a priest exorcising demons for real - playing an actual priest who, for real, did exorcism upon which movies are based. In this movie - this movie, not the other Crowe movie or the movies that are referenced in this movie - there is a priest who is a priest with both a certain loss of faith and a possible connection to the demons of the actor Russel Crowe plays in this movie. Clergical abuse being the demon the church has been dealing with for some time effectively demonising a whole religion in the process of it. A religion that is about forgiveness and turning the other cheek and thus Crowe's character not only must forgive the church but also himself for his wrong doings. Forgiveness he cannot find within himself or the people around him - whereas it be the asshole director character or his own semi-estranged daughter who has no faith in her father, the church or religion. And the daughter is by far the worst part of the movie besides a forced-in LGBT relationship with another awful actress - the actual actress who might just be playing an awful actress - whose delivery of iconic Exorcism lines fall as flat on their face as many exorcism movies after that. It makes me appreciate the gurgling sounds of that voice actress who drank eggs, smoked shitloads of cigarrettes and boozed quite a lot to deliver lines for a small faily new actress whose only truly decent role was that one iconic movie. As with most Exorcism movies this is full of tropes but it wouldn't be an exorcism movie if it didn't have them. I could have gone for a little bit more psychology and a little bit less non-binary romance (simply because that's not what this movie is about and ANY relationship besides Father - Daughter - Father (the Holy Father/Priest/Church/Redemption) is just placating filler. Also, and again, the black actress sucks... I think she's the same one from another movie that is based on an animated movie that completely flopped... Or did it ever come out. I cannot be arsed to look it up.
ALL IN ALL. I think this was a decent movie with a couple of flaws. Better than the Pope's Exorcist in my book, far from Exorcist and Exorcist III. And the ironic thing is. I thought this was a sequel to the Pope's Exorcist movie and it apparently wasn't... Well kinda it was I guess. In a way. This movie is Legion, for it is many... But also not... Since that book still rocks and this isn't that book. Or the movie it was based on which wasn't called Legion but was about Legion.
Review by Jitse LemmensBlockedParent2024-07-21T17:36:43Z
If Inception was a psychological horror movie this would be it. Not in terms of the quality of the overal movie but merely due to it having so many layers to it. Layers that might be obvious to many and a wee bit on the nose but a damn fine layer cake nonetheless.
Russel Crowe, an actor, plays an actor who - like Russel Crowe - has had a severe drinking problem and is facing his demons. Demons that are portrayed in a movie that grabs from other movies in this actual movie. A movie that comes almost right after another movie about exorcism and demons where Crowe plays a priest exorcising demons for real - playing an actual priest who, for real, did exorcism upon which movies are based. In this movie - this movie, not the other Crowe movie or the movies that are referenced in this movie - there is a priest who is a priest with both a certain loss of faith and a possible connection to the demons of the actor Russel Crowe plays in this movie. Clergical abuse being the demon the church has been dealing with for some time effectively demonising a whole religion in the process of it. A religion that is about forgiveness and turning the other cheek and thus Crowe's character not only must forgive the church but also himself for his wrong doings. Forgiveness he cannot find within himself or the people around him - whereas it be the asshole director character or his own semi-estranged daughter who has no faith in her father, the church or religion.
And the daughter is by far the worst part of the movie besides a forced-in LGBT relationship with another awful actress - the actual actress who might just be playing an awful actress - whose delivery of iconic Exorcism lines fall as flat on their face as many exorcism movies after that. It makes me appreciate the gurgling sounds of that voice actress who drank eggs, smoked shitloads of cigarrettes and boozed quite a lot to deliver lines for a small faily new actress whose only truly decent role was that one iconic movie.
As with most Exorcism movies this is full of tropes but it wouldn't be an exorcism movie if it didn't have them. I could have gone for a little bit more psychology and a little bit less non-binary romance (simply because that's not what this movie is about and ANY relationship besides Father - Daughter - Father (the Holy Father/Priest/Church/Redemption) is just placating filler. Also, and again, the black actress sucks... I think she's the same one from another movie that is based on an animated movie that completely flopped... Or did it ever come out. I cannot be arsed to look it up.
ALL IN ALL. I think this was a decent movie with a couple of flaws. Better than the Pope's Exorcist in my book, far from Exorcist and Exorcist III. And the ironic thing is. I thought this was a sequel to the Pope's Exorcist movie and it apparently wasn't... Well kinda it was I guess. In a way. This movie is Legion, for it is many... But also not... Since that book still rocks and this isn't that book. Or the movie it was based on which wasn't called Legion but was about Legion.