Directed by Scott Derickson
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
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A priest is put on trial for negligent homicide after a failed exorcism leads to a girl's death. His lawyer agrees to defend him mostly to win a partnership in her firm, little realizing what she is getting herself into. The story of the possession and ensuing exorcism is told in flashback during the trial, resulting in a "greatest hits" kind of impact: there are endless scenes of inhuman contortions, faces morphing into demons, spider eating, etc., all of which I found unintentionally hilarious. There is almost no character development of the movie's most important character, Emily Rose. The scariest scenes involve the lawyer waking up at 3 am each morning, "the witching hour", to investigate strange sounds and smells in her apartment, but they are brief and go nowhere. We are left with a long, drawn out courtroom drama in essentially a movie-length version of an episode of Law & Order.
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