Fallen Reviews
Top Critic
This film is essentially God Told Me To with a new paint job.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Filmcritic.com
[An] awfully stupid and ultimately pointless thriller.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Flick Filosopher
Ultimately, Fallen fails to spook, and creepiness is what it should have had to offer in the first place.
Apollo Guide
Fallen is one of those 'possession is 9-10ths of the law' ghost stories that takes itself too seriously to be taken seriously.
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| Original Score: 61/100
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Denzel's noir-like voiceover seemed like an imitation of how a real noir film does a voiceover.
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| Original Score: C
An unholy union between Seven and The Exorcist.
| Original Score: 2/4
Cinemaphile.org
Movies need story. Fallen has it, but not in a way for us to understand.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Palo Alto Weekly
Maybe the devil made the filmmakers do it. Although the acting and production values are good, don't be tempted to see this tedious film. It only reinforces society's fears that evil is everywhere -- and no one can do anything about it.
| Original Score: 1.5/4
Compuserve
On the whole it's too serious, even pompous, for its own good.
Cinematter
A mostly unsuccessful thriller whose good cast can't overcome a bad script.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Christian Science Monitor
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.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Aisle Seat
Fallen aims to be a classy thriller, but it never gets under your skin the way it should.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Jam! Movies
Sometimes deliciously creepy but mostly boring.
| Original Score: 2/5
Empire Magazine
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.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Fallen would love to be considered this year's Seven, and co-opts a lot of that hit's murky style. It falls short of such a lofty aim, coming off as more of a lesser derivative than a legitimate expansion.
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| Original Score: 5/10
Unfortunately the film wafts toward Seven turf soon afterward and stalls on a heavy burden of metaphysical chitchat. Washington's dazzling good looks are the only reason to stick with it.
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| Original Score: 1/4
