A cop and a priest team up on a case of demonic possession in this Screen Gems horror film. Scott Derrickson directs from a script he wrote with Paul Harris Boardman. Eric Bana, Édgar Ramírez, and Olivia Munn star. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi
Director: Scott Derrickson
Cast: Eric Bana, Edgar Ramirez, Olivia Munn, Sean Harris,
Joel McHale
Release Date: Jul
02, 2014
Runtime: 1 hr. 58 min.
Genres: Horror
Review:
Deliver Us from Evil has an interesting conceit of mixing police
procedural with an exorcism tale. Scott
Derrickson’s film establishes a nice bit of atmosphere at the start but the
tension and scares are rather lacking.
The main issue at play is that everything is terribly routine for even
the greenest of genre fans. It’s a
difficult thing to take something you’ve seen millions of times before and make
it interesting, something that made last years The Conjuring so
impressive. Derrickson’s film is
watchable if a tad overlong. Sadly it’s
not terribly memorable either except for Bana and Munn’s mega NU YARK accents
and Jole McHale’s random inclusion. The
best thing about the film is obviously Edgar Ramirez who’s just effortless as
the coolest Jesuit priest this side of The Exorcist. Deliver Us from Evil is the kind of film that
show up on cable at some point in the future and you watch portions of it,
never actually watching the whole thing in the long run, cinematic purgatory.
C
