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Rating of
2.5/4
"Exorcist: The Beginning" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 02/03/2012
Exorcist - The Beginning is not a promising proposition. The dreadful title aside, making prequels to accepted classics is NEVER a good idea although I'd have to say that I was never as impressed with the original The Exorcist as everyone else seems to be. It tells the story of how Father Merrin first encounters the demon and why he made hunting it his life's work. All set in the sandblown deserts of Kenya where the demon is unearthed, the one thing this film apes reasonably well is the look of the film, the photography being very attractive and atmospheric but the biggest boost this film receives is in its star; Stellan Skarsgard is a very strong central character who suffers from horrific flashbacks to the atrocities of Nazi Germany that caused him to lose his faith. By far the biggest …
Rating of
0.5/4
The power of Christ compels you...not to see this.
goodfellamike - wrote on 10/26/2008
Father Lancaster Merrin, portrayed by Max Von Sydow in the 1973 original Exorcist, is here, in this dire prequel played by Stellan Skarsgard. He is younger, and more confused, even conflicted by his vows of being a priest. He wishes to be acknowledged as an Archaeologist rather than a man of the cloth since being a priest was the reason several Jews were murdered in front of him a few years back. He is summoned to find a sacred Idol in Africa which represents a very evil demon that may be buried beneath the Earth in a recently discovered church. This is no doubt reason enough to go charging into a plague of unexplained phenomena.
The archaologists and scientists already on the scene have either gone mad and been committed to an asylum, or they have gooey postules growing all over …
