Eric LaSalle as the Devil was excellent, one of the best Devils in any movie. And the movie had some strong points, some nice creepy developments and some interesting characters.
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What really killed me was the amount of transparent 'borrowing' in the movie taken from similar films. "I know who I am!" taken straight from Angel Heart, the lead character turns out to have been dead all along (Sixth Sense and now The Others), and loads taken from Jacob's Ladder.
I mean movies in a genre are going to borrow from each other, but the scenes in question were just too transparently the same as the ones they were borrowing from.
Also dragging this down was the main character himself, who to me was just too unbelievable. He is supposed to be some kind of fundamentally bad person but his arrogance is just too overdone and I was left with no sense of either sympathy for him, or genuinely disliking him as a bad guy.
He was just annoying.
Poor overall. If you want to sit through the drecky parts to see a very very good Satan, don't say I didn't warn you about the other parts.
*** SPOILER ALERT ALARUM ALARUM ***
What really killed me was the amount of transparent 'borrowing' in the movie taken from similar films. "I know who I am!" taken straight from Angel Heart, the lead character turns out to have been dead all along (Sixth Sense and now The Others), and loads taken from Jacob's Ladder.
I mean movies in a genre are going to borrow from each other, but the scenes in question were just too transparently the same as the ones they were borrowing from.
Also dragging this down was the main character himself, who to me was just too unbelievable. He is supposed to be some kind of fundamentally bad person but his arrogance is just too overdone and I was left with no sense of either sympathy for him, or genuinely disliking him as a bad guy.
He was just annoying.
Poor overall. If you want to sit through the drecky parts to see a very very good Satan, don't say I didn't warn you about the other parts.