When they made the definitive film on a subject, it is difficult to be original to address it again. Exorcist is just a short film. It is a bible, a travel guide, an instruction manual on how to make a film that speaks of demonic possession. And so it is impossible to improve it. Or better, say unlikely, we will one day find a surprise. The rite is too close to what had Exorcist, and is not ashamed of these similarities. In contrast, almost take them with humor. But at the same time, is too far from what led to the legendary film by William Friedkin. Horror films have long ceased to cause terror and The rite is demonstrated. Not scary, and perhaps even intended, knowing that gender has more paths derived graphics and tanned stomachs. In any case, it is an interesting story about faith. Perhaps too predictable and low risk with the material at hand, but at least entertaining and well played almost always. The rite does not conceal the least, but try it with a lineup that gives you everything the weight of the project to Anthony Hopkins. But his character, Lucas Trevant father is not the protagonist of the film. Yes it is Michael Kovack Colin O'Donoghue (an almost debutant film actor who has worked in television and is limited to being correct), a young man who flees his future as a mortician with his father getting a cure. But has no faith, or at least not enough, he decides to quit before you start. To avoid this, his superiors sent him to Rome to do in the course of Vatican exorcist. His doubts were the attempt to resolve an unorthodox priest, Father Lucas. The priest protagonist of The Exorcist also came to a trance with the devil devoid of faith. If there was his mother the heart of its troubles, here is the father. At the center of attention is a possessed girl, you'll only have a few more years and is a pregnant teenager. There are similarities. When the young trainee priest surprised to see the first person possessed, Father Lucas asked if he expected to see heads turning and pea puree. The authors of The rite which loses in comparison.
Once lost the battle of originality, the tactics of the film to engage the viewer passes by the charisma of Anthony Hopkins. Perhaps it is surprising that the film take so long to start for him, because up to half an hour the nearly two hard the film is not seen on screen. Hopkins is a renowned actor and category (qualities not always agree on a single artist), and gives the film a break, depth and interest that may not have with another actor. In the final scene walks the delicate boundary of overacting and does not always successful, but in general has a more than interesting and nuanced. If charisma is the thing, until it comes out it is just the charisma of the performers who parade across the screen that holds the tension of the story in his lengthy introduction. Rutger Hauer has that charisma, and I had since recovered Christopher Nolan Batman Begins . As Toby Jones (Truman Capote's splendid Infamous and one of the star of the wonderful Fog). And Ciaran Hinds (Munich appeared in , Steven Spielberg).
But that charisma does not seem to have Mikael Hafstrom, director of the film. Specialized ("box?), Probably forever, in the horror genre (after a failed East thriller set in the 40's, Shanghai ) does not offer many innovative solutions. Abuses of focus and blur as his only alternative to plan what happens on the screen and used, not always with success, many flashes in the form of flashbacks. The performance, overall, is too contrived. And that perhaps would have given better results if he had raised a horror movie full of scares tricky (as it was the right What Lies Beneath , this ghost story starring Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer). But that's just what The rite is not. Your bet is (except at specific moments in which, by chance and against what seems fun, bet on the path marked by The Exorcist ) of the psychological thriller, the discussion of faith, the need for beliefs. That wager, which works reasonably well for 90 minutes, lost in the climax Finally, a climx whose choice is difficult to understand and whose development is very predictable.
The rite is a film built on a more or less correct, up and down narrative offset by good performances and seek to hide behind women's presence and journalistic debate (both personified by the actress Alice Braga, Predators , Blindly, I Am Legend ). Although loaded with ingenuity, the best moments of the film go through the doubts in the faith of its protagonist. Delving into the center of the main character nuance, Rite could have taken much more advantage of its raw material, have scored actual distances with respect to its venerable reference and have reached the level of terror when one leaves the theater to which all should aspire genre film. However, it is still another example of this theater of possessions and exorcisms which seems to have become strong in recent years. A star with Anthony Hopkins. Nor is small, if you look with benevolence that require this type of film.
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