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» Blue_Iris - The best things come last The ending was the only thing that made the movie worth sitting through, and that's where the problem lies. Gabriel Byrne's portrayal of the Devil was good--at the end. Up until then, however, I felt he was too hammy--too much a cartoon Satan. When he came to Arnie's apartment with his "tempting offer," that's when I got the sense of a real Lucifer.-- posted by Blue_Iris » Wolvie27 - I simply HATED this movie I don't think there was anything in the entire movie, with the exception of the scene where Arnold's character is given a "talking" by the devil possesed character, even though the end result of that scene was yet another decent into action that didn't seem quite right.I felt like I was going to be sick when things "suddenly" exploded around the devil, or how their visions were never properly explained, or the rules that the were placed on the devil were broken so easily, or how the devil seemed to have already attained "godly" power and still wanted to go through the whole annoying proccess. And I don't want to even go into how overly done (more like burnt toast) the use of the Roman Catholic Church has become. What, has no one ever heard of other churches or are they not pious enough for proper artistic use on the big screen? The only thing I think the fallen angel actually likes about movies like this is that it takes real life beliefs and mocks them up the ying-yang (which has come to represent "no purity" in terms of its symbolic value to me). In the best literary critism I can think of that isn't vulgar, would have to be "This movie sucks." But if you want to be picky, that could be a pretty rude assesment as well. Oh well... -- posted by Wolvie27
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