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(1 - 38) of 38 OFCS Rating: 11% Rotten Page   1   "carves out its own niche by combining the Christian horror of the original with the cruelties and crassness of colonialism."   Movie Gazette   Anton Bitel "Stellan Skarsgard's haunting portrayal of a man struggling with his faith overshadows the special effects and horror aspects of this 'Exorcist' prequel."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker D+ "Maybe Schrader’s more subdued take was really the only way to approach this story. Hopefully one day we can all see the difference."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf "The priest grabs a rifle and blasts away: Father Merrin, action hero."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs "The priest grabs a rifle and blasts away: Father Merrin, action hero."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs "The priest grabs a rifle and blasts away: Father Merrin, action hero."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 1/4 "Director Paul Schrader delivered a movie that the studio didn't like. Now Renny Harlin makes one that nobody likes."   Kansas City Star   Dan Lybarger 3/4 "...an interesting little piece of entertainment: stylized, ambitious, and filled with scenes in which the element of creepiness seems genuine rather than synthetic."   Cinemaphile.org   David Keyes 1/4 "There's been a tremendous struggle to bring Exorcist: The Beginning to theaters, and having seen the end result, it's hardly been worth it."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C "This one is all hokum and not willing to dig deeper than into the familiar demonic bag of horror movie tricks."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2/4 "A sincere—and sincerely problematic—film that may have been shot twice, but deserved a third try to get things right."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman D+ "By the time we get to the real exorcising, it’s too late. We’re bored with, and as, hell."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2/4 "Saying Harlin succeeded in making it less cerebral might make the studio happy, but audiences are likely to still be bored beyond belief."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress B "Impressive on a number of levels and awful on precious few."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 1.5/4 "Harlin’s hackwork screams volumes of a falsely moody and generic scarefest...an inexplicable tease for true horror hedonists"   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng D- "A grimly goofy, tediously bloody, dismally un-scary trashing of Friedkin's original that fits comfortably with the myriad other 'supernatural' disasters of recent years."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1/4 "a $54 million sensationalistic hack job that is heavy on gore and cheap shocks and almost completely devoid of any sense of genuine human, social, or religious insight"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 4/10 "...it doesn't have anything interesting to say..."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 3/10 "Exorcist: The Beginning makes the mistake of confusing loud noises, grotesque images, obscene violence, and buckets of blood for frights."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio "Flawed, but still good."   3BlackChicks Review   Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel 2/4 "Interesting but not compelling, spooky but not scary... succeeds only in surpassing the first unnecessary sequel."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 2/5 "It’s not that they didn’t try to make a good film. They just didn’t try to finish a good film."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr 1/5 "Pokey, blood-spattered, cheap-scare- larded prequel."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 1/4 "What is rather horrifying is how this would-be thriller manages the bizarre feat of being simultaneously dull and completely ridiculous."   TheMovieReport.com   Michael Dequina 1.5/5 "I'd love to say this will be final nail in The Exorcist's coffin, but somehow I doubt it."   Mike Bracken's Horror Films   Mike Bracken 1.5/4 "It never approaches the stratospheric badness of Exorcist II: The Heretic, but this lemon does its damndest to heap more dirt on the franchise’s grave."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 2/5 "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."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 2/5 "A horror movie that starts off decently but quickly falls victim to cliché."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar "Simultaneously boring and overwrought (especially in the laugh-inducing climax)...fails as a sequel, as a metaphysical exercise and even as a cheesy exploitation item."   Critic Doctor   Peter Sobczynski 1/5 "Most of the movie feels nothing like an Exorcist film."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves C "Not good to be sure, but hardly the unwatchable black hole of Suck we had been led to anticipate."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux C+ "an example of the studio getting exactly what they ask for and the final product suffering because of it"   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 2/5 "This is what happens when an entire movie is created via reshoot."   eFilmCritic.com   Scott Weinberg 3/10 "Never underestimate the box-office appeal of a boring horror film."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 0.5/4 "Wandering into the territory of cinema as audience punishment."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 1.5/4 "[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."   Oscar Guy   Wesley Lovell 2/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito Read review   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr.  (1 - 38) of 38 OFCS Rating: 11% Rotten Page   1