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35
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22
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Exorcist: The Beginning
Warner Bros.
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for strong violence and gore, disturbing images and rituals, and for language including some sexual dialogue
Starring
Stellan SkarsgÄrd,
Izabella Scorupco,
James D'Arcy,
Remy Sweeney,
Julian Wadham,
Andrew French,
Ralph Brown,
and
Ben Cross
In the place where Evil was born, Father Merrin will finally see its true face. (Warner Bros.)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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Horror
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Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Alexi Hawley
William Wisher Jr. (story)
Caleb Carr (story)
William Peter Blatty (movie The Exorcist)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Renny Harlin
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: March 1, 2005
Video: March 1, 2005
Theatrical: August 20, 2004
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| RUNNING TIME: |
115 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
Here's a popcorn movie with soul, welcoming the masses to consider how much can change in popular culture over 30 years, as the horrific becomes the familiar.

50
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Nothing fails like bad horror. But it's not despicable. It is merely boring.

50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
The movie goes too far on too little motivation - and the middle section, with its maggoty villains, roiling skies and native revolts, seems almost barmy. Yet Exorcist: Beginning does score a small victory. It's not as bad as you'd think.
50
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
A perfectly mediocre horror film. There is some hoot-inducing dialogue and cheesy effects, but the film's workmanlike narrative marches gamely forward, managing a handful of respectable scares along the way.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
While the fourth "Exorcist" movie may have unmitigated disaster written all over it, the finished product is somehow sort-of-kind-of not all that bad.

42
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The new movie is a dusty piñata stuffed with omens and not much more.

40
LA Weekly
Ron Stringer
The surprise ending, when it comes, is more of a hoot than a holler.

40
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
The gooseberry Harlin came up with will win no proselytizers, but it does have a pleasant matinee modesty, a cool sepia-period look, and an interesting flashback relationship with Nazis.

40
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
A horror movie that starts off decently but quickly falls victim to cliché. It is, ultimately, a disappointing genre entry, and one that falls far short of the originals greatness.

40
Variety
Joe Leydon
Earns points simply for not being bad enough to leave a stain on the screen. Unfortunately, this annoyingly disjointed shocker stumbles badly after promising early scenes, and quickly devolves into a chaotic blur of underdeveloped characters, illogical transitions and standard-issue scary-movie tropes.

40
Empire
Ian Nathan
It isnt quite hell, but clambering to the end of this dusty remnant of an idea is certainly purgatory.

38
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Congratulations, Renny Harlin. You've successfully exorcised all the horror out of The Exorcist.

38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
The devil is back in Exorcist: The Beginning, and he is more disgusting than ever. Not more scary, just really yucky, in a kind of maggots-on-a-pizza-slice way.

30
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
There's no pea soup, but sketchy effects, cheap jolts, swirling cameras, and buckets of blood surround Exorcist: The Beginning with the potent aroma of cheese.

30
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
The scariest thing about this film is how desperate the makers are to earn a scream.

30
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
The risible dialogue, the bulging eyeballs, the heaving bosoms, the digitally rendered hyenas and squirming maggots, the movie fails to achieve the status of the instant camp classic. That's partly because the vibe of the film is too torpid.

25
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
The acting is serviceable at best, the direction unfocused - and the special effects and makeup cheesy-looking. This is surely the most dreary-looking film ever shot by the great Vittorio Storaro ("Apocalypse Now").

25
Premiere
Aaron Hillis
Its terrible enough to torture the damned.

20
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Pokey, blood-spattered, cheap-scare-larded prequel.

20
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
The serious Catholic themes that made the original film genuinely disturbing have been flattened out into a cartoonish backstory.

12
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
This prequel has something to appall everybody.

11
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Sloppy, confusing, and dull as a dented crucifix.


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