Punctuated by endless voice-over narration and totally lacking in suspense, Fallen lives down to its name.
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01/01/00
Fallen (1998)
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Reviews Counted:53
Fresh:22
Rotten:31
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: Has an interesting premise. Unfortunately, it's just a recycling of old materials, and not all that thrilling.
Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: After capturing and prosecuting a brutal serial killer, detective John Hobbes is puzzled by a string of bizarre murders that seem to suggest that the killer is alive--or at least somehow present on... [More]
Starring: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland, Embeth Davidtz
Director: Gregory Hoblit
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Reviews for Fallen
God (or the Devil) is in the detail: every time a fluid is taken into the body, the fidgety camera zooms in, fascinated, suspicious.
01/26/06
The moment this movie began to go wrong, so wrong, was when the word 'angels' started working its way into the script.
01/01/00
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01/01/00
Too creepy for mainstream moviegoers and too tame for genre audiences.
01/01/00
Somewhere in here, a cracking 90 minute horror-thriller is struggling to get out but amid the mire of confusing, messy goings-on, it gets lost completely.
01/01/00
None of the protagonists are humanized enough to elicit our concern for their well-being, and a puzzlingly sporadic narration takes audiences out of the moment.
06/05/02
[An] awfully stupid and ultimately pointless thriller.
01/01/00
Fallen is one of those 'possession is 9-10ths of the law' ghost stories that takes itself too seriously to be taken seriously.
01/01/00
Movies need story. Fallen has it, but not in a way for us to understand.
01/01/00
Fallen will sell tickets on the strength of its appealing cast and high-impact camera work, but will probably fade from the scene more quickly than its demonic villain does in the story.
01/01/00
Denzel's noir-like voiceover seemed like an imitation of how a real noir film does a voiceover.
01/01/00
An effective genre film that leaves an unmistakably good impression, which is something most of Hollywood's supernatural thrillers usually fail to do.
03/22/04
Had the filmmakers taken a little more time to think the story through and flesh out the supporting cast, Fallen could have been a real corker instead of just another January throw-away.
01/01/00
A high-concept mating of the police thriller and the supernatural, Gregory Hoblit's movie (sophomore jinx?) will disappoint afficionados of both genres.
06/25/06
Top CriticDenzel Washington has the almost impossible task of holding together a convoluted picture that's only intermittently suspenseful and not very engaging emotionally or intellectually.
01/11/08
Top CriticA tense and compelling supernatural thriller.
03/01/02
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04/02/05
A movie that never compromises its own principles, no matter what audience-unfriendly path its original premise may eventually lead it down.
01/01/00
On the whole it's too serious, even pompous, for its own good.
01/01/00
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