Wow, this was really bad.
The original "The Exorcist" was a great horror movie with many intense and horrific moments and great memorable characters. I haven't personally seen the sequels and other installments so I really can't talk too much about them. The Exorcist: Believer is considered a direct sequel to the first Exorcist, I kind of expected this one wasn't going to be great but I didn't expect it to be this bad.
The production and the costumes were pretty standard which made it feel, at times, a television movie setting and the camerawork was mostly generic despite having a few shot compositions that looked pretty good. Even with some good camerawork, the messy narrative and direction and the use of horror cliches and annoying jump scares just drags the movie down and ends up making things eye-rolling. Director and Writer David Gordon Green has made a few movies I liked like "George Washington (2000), Snow Angels, and Joe" and Green tries to create something different for the installment. Unfortunately his writing and directing doesn't really offer much because the writing is all over the place with moments that are quite laughable alongside the bland direction.
Honestly, the performances from the cast members are not really good as the performances felt poor, dry, and not very convincing. Leslie Odom Jr. And Ann Dowd are actors I like and they seem to be trying their best but unfortunately they aren't able to keep hold on their roles. Ellen Burstyn is absolutely wasted in this movie. As mentioned, the narrative tries to explore some new characters and territories but the narrative isn't good and none of the characters were interesting to the point that it was really boring at certain points of the movie.
The soundtrack was pretty generic. The dialogue is really bad with certain monologue moments being poor and sometimes laughable. Certain lighting moments were bad, the make-up and costumes looked alright but there were certain moments that made them look cheap. Also, the movie has some of the worst editing I have seen in awhile which makes Bohemian Rhapsody's editing look like a masterpiece.
Overall, I don't understand why it's necessary to have a new installment of the Exorcist. At this point, as much as I like some of Green's early work, I'm convinced his future works aren't going to be really good anymore.
The original "The Exorcist" was a great horror movie with many intense and horrific moments and great memorable characters. I haven't personally seen the sequels and other installments so I really can't talk too much about them. The Exorcist: Believer is considered a direct sequel to the first Exorcist, I kind of expected this one wasn't going to be great but I didn't expect it to be this bad.
The production and the costumes were pretty standard which made it feel, at times, a television movie setting and the camerawork was mostly generic despite having a few shot compositions that looked pretty good. Even with some good camerawork, the messy narrative and direction and the use of horror cliches and annoying jump scares just drags the movie down and ends up making things eye-rolling. Director and Writer David Gordon Green has made a few movies I liked like "George Washington (2000), Snow Angels, and Joe" and Green tries to create something different for the installment. Unfortunately his writing and directing doesn't really offer much because the writing is all over the place with moments that are quite laughable alongside the bland direction.
Honestly, the performances from the cast members are not really good as the performances felt poor, dry, and not very convincing. Leslie Odom Jr. And Ann Dowd are actors I like and they seem to be trying their best but unfortunately they aren't able to keep hold on their roles. Ellen Burstyn is absolutely wasted in this movie. As mentioned, the narrative tries to explore some new characters and territories but the narrative isn't good and none of the characters were interesting to the point that it was really boring at certain points of the movie.
The soundtrack was pretty generic. The dialogue is really bad with certain monologue moments being poor and sometimes laughable. Certain lighting moments were bad, the make-up and costumes looked alright but there were certain moments that made them look cheap. Also, the movie has some of the worst editing I have seen in awhile which makes Bohemian Rhapsody's editing look like a masterpiece.
Overall, I don't understand why it's necessary to have a new installment of the Exorcist. At this point, as much as I like some of Green's early work, I'm convinced his future works aren't going to be really good anymore.