Exorcist - The Beginning Reviews

Pena que, em vez de merecer seu próprio capítulo nos livros de História do Cinema, tenha se revelado digno apenas de uma nota de rodapé.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Harlin amps up the sound effects and gore in an attempt to disguise the absence of any genuine scares.

[Harlin's] skill has never been proven and here, with effects that make the original look state-of-the-art, we see a film that is trapped in empty suspense and faulty terror.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

...an interesting little piece of entertainment: stylized, ambitious, and filled with scenes in which the element of creepiness seems genuine rather than synthetic.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

...atrocious...

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

The hellishly long buildup works, but the payoff is predictable, pitting Merrin against a contortionist white devil in a blue dress.

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Stellan Skarsgard deserves another movie. This cruel, nasty, ugly prequel deserves to be exorcised right off the marquee.

| Original Score: 1.5/4

This Exorcist prequel is more or less what used to be called a B-movie. Even B-movies, however, had to please audiences on some level.

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Never underestimate the box-office appeal of a boring horror film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10

Working Nazis into the satanic brew certainly ups the evil ante, but it doesn't help make Exorcist: The Beginning a worthwhile movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

A lot of noisy tomfoolery that never coalesces into a solid horror yarn, lacking even the beloved pea soup 'n' rotating noggins that made us quake way back when.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/5

Although Old Scratch isn't strong enough to fight off the Baltimore Catechism for very long, the scares are good enough.

| Original Score: 2.5/5

The priest grabs a rifle and blasts away: Father Merrin, action hero.

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Boring as hell.

Full Review | Original Score: D+

Warner's late-game recruiting of a vulgarian like Renny Harlin to tack on some barf-bag moments is simply an insult to fans of the original.

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Blood, flies, maggots, ravenous hyenas, power failures, grave-digging and much ineffectual voodoo ensue.

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Exceedingly lame production has few frights and not much story either.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Not unlike Exorcist II. It's a huge mess with passages of great beauty, juxtaposed with a few truly scary moments and a bunch of hokum and stupidity.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Yet another film where a loyal black man dies to save his "master," a Hollywood trend that's downright sickening.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

...yes, it is as bad as you've heard.