The Pope's Exorcist review: Not even the power of Russell Crowe should compel you to see this
Ostensibly based on true events, with the real Amorth claiming to have performed over 50,000 exorcisms, this ’80s-set movie replaces the actual pontiff of the time, Poland’s John Paul II, with an unnamed Italian Pope played by Franco Nero, the original. If that doesn’t appropriately set the tone, nothing will, unless it’s Crowe riding around the Spanish countryside on a Ferrari motor scooter half his width.
The young boy, Henry, is living in a run-down Spanish abbey when he gets possessed. He’s staying in the abbey with his mother and sister because his father recently got impaled through the head in a car accident Deducing rather quickly that Henry’s not faking it—because he knows things he shouldn’t—Amorth can’t skip to the ending as easily as in the first exorcism. Worse, the demon proclaims it will reveal hidden secrets to bring down the entire Vatican.
, but feels more constrained by formula this time around. Hang in there and be rewarded with naked apparitions, CG fire and, I kid you not, a set-up for a whopping number of sequels.Frankly, an hour and 43 minutes is just too long for this sort of thing. Aside from the family’s traumatic loss, we’re not given much reason to care about them, and too much time gets wasted on the priests’ backstories, which most will catch on to pretty quickly.
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