Exorcist: The Beginning

Pros: Skarsgard gives a good performance.
Cons: The movie drags on forever with no real payoff.

William Friedkin's The Exorcist is often cited as the scariest horror film ever made. Personally, I've never found the film to be all that scary (which could have something to do with the fact that I'm neither Catholic nor particularly religious), ...

Pros: Interesting story, well acted, good sequel.
Cons: None.

Father Merrin, having abandoned his faith in God after witnessing the atrocities of World War II, has now comfortable settled into his profession as an archeologist. When a strange Byzantine church is found buried beneath the dust of the East African ...

Pros: Cast, Suspenseful, Photography
Cons: Parts of the Story

Genre: Horror Sub-categories: Prequel, Demonic Possession Scare Factor: I jumped out of my seat! Gore Factor: Relatively Mild Look-at-these: Brief Nudity Synopsis: Exorcist: The Beginning finds ...

Pros: Stellan Skarsgard.
Cons: Noxious, putrid, worthless, irredeemable, laughable.

There are, I am sure, less appealing things in the world than another Exorcist sequel, but it's hard to think of any. It is certainly impossible to conceive of any need for two Exorcist sequels telling the same story within a year of each ...

Pros: Stellan Starsgard.
Cons: The rest of the movie.

Before I start my review, I would like to share with you a famous story that you will often read about in screenwriting books. It’s the kind of funny but-not-really story where an ugly truth lingers in the air once everyone’s done laughing. It ...

Pros: Scary(suspense),acting,music,gore...
Cons: It's more than 15 words...

In 1973,people all over the world was shocked and literally scared to death because of a film titled-The Exorcist.There were two sequels to the scariest film ever.Now in 2004,a prequel is here and it starts now. In the ...

Pros: There are no pros in this movie. They are all amatuers.
Cons: I feel I got conned by this movie.

First of all, I HAVE to vent. I am getting SO sick and tired of people in Hollywood that take a sequel or as in the case of The Exorcist: The Beginning, a prequel, take and rip apart the very fabric of a movie. This has happened to many great movies. It ...

Pros: Skarsgard, some very clever scares, the direction, and some rather far out violence.
Cons: It's got a few inconsistencies, plus the music and effects aren't exactly top notch.

"Exorcist: The Beginning" may be the first movie to truly express that studio heads do not know a single thing about film making. That’s a little harsh, let me rephrase that. They just don’t have much taste in what makes a better film. This is ...

Pros: Stellan Skarsgard is a very competent actor.
Cons: The atrocities this film glorifies, and the horror cliches it embraces.

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 ...

Pros: Awesome movie. Acting is superb.
Cons: nothing

Plot: It's basically set before the original Exorcist, I believe. The plot kicks butt. It was a very well made story. It's set in 1949, somewhere in Africa, I can't remember the exact country. The British have recently uncovered a church, and ...

Pros: Stellan Skarsgård, Izabella Scorupco, directing, dialouge, plot, music, photography
Cons: None at all!

In the year of 1973, William Friedkin created one of the most scariest movie of all time, THE EXORCIST. A frightening film about a young girl being possessed by the devil. Critics and audiences couldn't stop talking about how scary and great this film ...

Pros: Some interesting ideas in the story, not much else
Cons: poor effects, lame characters, boring pace, does the original no justice, forced scares

At least I can say this about The Exorcist: The Beginning - it wasn't a victim of it's own hype. The general consensus on this movie seemed to be that most people preferred they not make another Exorcist sequel, as the rest were so bad. That said, ...

Pros: Too many to mention, acting, writing, directing, editing
Cons: I want to see it again!

“EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING” REVIEW NOTE: There are some mild spoilers in this review, but in no way is the ending revealed. I really, really, liked this movie. “Exorcist: The Beginning” (directed by Renny Harlin) effectively captures the essence of ...

Pros: Scary, Dark, Hey! It's the Exorcist!. Very disturbing at parts
Cons: The Acting. The Ending. Very disturbing at parts

In 1973 when the Original Exorcist came out, it was dubbed 'the scariest movie of all time'. However the priest who is called to do the exorcism, Father Merrin (Stellan Skarsgård) has seen this type of thing before. (hence the reason the devil in the ...

Pros: This movie is only good if you are a fan or haven't seen the original.
Cons: Bad acting, not enough action, some similar repeated scenes from the original,sometimes confusing.

The original movie, sure, it is decent. I liked it ok, and it had many memorable scenes. So when a group of friends asked me to go see "Exorcist: the Beginning", I thought, why not? Wow...I wasted $5.50! I sat down in the cold movie theater, good ...