‘The Rite’ Movie Review
New Line Cinema recently released a new Anthony Hopkins,branded thriller/horror film "The Rite" into movie theaters. I just watched it,and thought it was pretty good. It delivered a ton of intense exorcism scenes with actor Anthony Hopkins. It stars: Anthony Hopkins, Colin O'Donoghue, Alice Braga, Ciaran Hinds,and Rutger Hauer.
The film revolved around Michael and Father Lucas. Michael is a new Priest who has issues with his own faith. He doubts the Devil exists as well as these so-called Demonic possessions. The film often showed flashbacks to Michael's childhood where he first started to develop his faith issues when his father died.
Michael ends up traveling to Italy to learn about exorcism from Father Lucas because his American teacher thought he needed to get some "hands on" experience with exorcism since he showed so much doubt. As soon as he arrives at Lucas' house,he gets introduced to his first live exorcism with a girl who is pregnant,and goes in and out of possessions.
Even after Michael sees a ton of convincing evidence of possession,he still feels doubt for the faith. The possessed girl spits out nails,blood,her voice gets crazy deep,her body contorts,along with other kinds of weird stuff,but Michael still swears she just needs to see a psychiatrist for this issue.
Eventually, Michael starts getting issues of his own,which were brought on by weird dreams he had about his dead father. Father Lucas tries to help him through his issues. However, Michael's doubting faith gets put to a major test when the demon possesses someone he never thought it would possess,and if Michael doesn't collect some faith fast,his life and other's lives are definitely in danger.
Michael and his girlfriend are standing in the room while the possession is going on,and things get very rough. Michael gets put in a very dangerous position,and has to deal with his faith issues and problems with God to overcome what is getting ready to destroy him. The conclusion was very intense and kept me on the edge of my seat.
I thought the film was quite entertaining and intriguing, but there were some slow moments during the movie where I found myself dosing off a bit. However, when things picked up,they picked up in a huge way. It featured a lot of strong, intense moments. The exorcism scenes were really disturbing and compelling. I gave the film a B grade.
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