Review of The Rite (2011) by Malasawas — 12 Feb 2011
Don't know why the critics said that this movie was bad-performed and clichéd... I've just seen it and... well, Anthony Hopkins is, whether you like or not, a machine-gun in your head shooting all the time.
In this movie you have the possibility to see him in every role you can imagine: sad, happy, mad, good, bad, evil incarnated, the best of the angels of God... God himself... don't know... whatever you want, each kind of character in the same role.
.. this is what I've expected from Anthony. This great jobs he made me get accustomed to. The new one star, Colin O'Donoghue, not bad actually, but I was looking for him to react in a lot of scenes, but he didn't let his feeling command himself, is like when a stone is expected to crash, a bomb expected to blow it all, but it doesn't.
.. I can see potential on him but... he need to improve a little. The movie itself has a good script, storytelling, fluently carried. The relation between personal stuff (Colin's character past and so on.
..) and the present (relation to Father Lucas= Hopkins, and exorcisms, the actual argument where you are put in the entire movie) is one of the greatest I've ever seen, fluent an well-mixed. Good job for me.
Don't follow the trends. As I always say.
This review of The Rite (2011) was written by Malasawas on 12 Feb 2011.
The Rite has generally received mixed reviews.
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