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Summary: Nice story but a predictable ending!
Review: I truly liked the story and the acting was nice as well. But one hour of watching the movie, things started going faster than it should that killed the suspense and the ending became very predicatable and unsatisfying for the viewers!
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Summary: Does this make sense to you?
Review: If you were the devil inside a human body and could merely touch someone else and pass your spirit on to them, don't you think you would do so as soon as your host was first arrested instead of serving a prison term all the way through to the moment of execution? Wouldn't you want to get out and create mayhem and at least eat a decent meal? The acting in the film is fine by Washington and Goodman and the cinematography is top-notch but can we please have a movie with a plot that someone put a bit of thought into? Please!
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Summary: Humanity is the dumping pile of God's rubbish
Review: This film is a mix of influences. They say it has to do with « Seven ». Yes, if we consider we are inside the police, if we consider one young cop is the targeted victim of the « criminal ». They say it has to do with the « Exorcist ». Yes if we consider the « criminal » is an evil spirit, a fallen angel who is roaming the streets and taking possession of various bodies to achieve his destructive plan. But it could also be connected to the beautiful book by Anne Rice, « The Servant of the Bones », since it has to do with very old semitic, or even pre-semitic myths. But in fact it is a film of its own, and it cannot be reduced to these references. This evil and fallen angel, Azazel, is playing in society by targeting a cop and pushing him into destroying himself, which is the only possibility this cop has to destroy, or try to destroy this evil fallen angel. The suspense of the film is close to panic, for the targeted cop, but also for us, because we can only follow the evil spirit jumping from one body to another in a crowd through the looks, attitudes and musical references to an old songs of the sixties that moves along with the spirit from one body to the next, leaving no memory in the seized bodies after the spirit has left them, but also leaving a trail of tears and blood behind him, because he kills along the way. It is an absolutely and completely trapped situation in which the targeted cop can only try to play and trap the evil and fallen angel in his turn, but in which he will necessarily lose because there is no escape, and this spirit cheats. The only moral of the film, and we get it straight away, is that the death penalty for one of the possessed bodies turned criminal is totally useless, because the spirit is an alien in the body and cannot be killed by the death of the body. He will escape and he will go on haunting and possessing other bodies. I will not give away the trick he has to use when he is trapped, but this trick is an allusion to a famous film adapted from Stephen King and dealing with a haunted pet. There is no exorcism or exorcising of this spirit because there is no way of destroying the spirit. Even God cannot destroy it. God could only reject it down into humanity. Once created an angel, that angel, even fallen, cannot be destroyed by God. God is not almighty, and he can only clean up his realm by getting rid of the rotten apples in his basket by out-casting them down onto humanity that is going to be plagued by them, on God's decision, a decision that is the result of God's mistake and impotence to straighten up his own mistakes. This film is unswervingly pessimistic. Even God is trapped by his mistakes in his creative work and God's mistakes are man's doomed lot. Beautiful. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, Paris Universities II and IX.
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Summary: Good, but isn't its plot copied from somewhere else?
Review: In itself, it's a good horror movie, but I have mixed feelings about it - because it seems that this flick shamelessly copies plot ideas from a well-known horror book and a popular film. It appears that the basic plot is simply copied from Stephen Gallagher's excellent novel "The Valley of Lights", with some things taken from Wes Craven's movie "Shocker" (which, as a child, I placed among my favorite horrors :). Keep this in mind while watching "Fallen". You will probably enjoy it, though, as it's quite atmospheric, with a handful of great actors (and I don't mean Washington - I'm referring to John Goodman and Donald Sutherland). I particularly liked the movie's ending. ;)
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Summary: Tried, came close, failed
Review: ...A brilliant idea was left to rot. John Hobbes (Denzel Washington) is the capturer of a serial killer, Edgar Reese (Elias Koteas, in the film's best role), who is sent to his death laughing and singing and promising that he'd be back. While some discrepancies between Reese and the evidence in the murders he committed nags at Hobbes, a riddle Reese asked him shortly before the execution turns up the suicide of a polieman thirty years ago and entangles Hobbes in the web that binds these two cases together with thousands of years of history and the supernatural. Yeah, it's a great premise. Too bad it's given such short shrift in here. Every aspect of this film was done better in Seven, despite the difference in their mechanations (the killer in Fallen really IS supernatural), and held up against its predecessor, Fallen leaves a whole lot to be desired.
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Summary: A definite weekend rental.
Review: There is not too much about this movie that isn't good. It starts out fast, maybe too fast. It dragged for a little while in the middle but ended real fast. My only complaint is that ending was too perdicitable. I wouldn't say buy this one unless you really like Denzel Washington. If you are stuck inside for the weekend I would say this is a great rental. Really worth seeing.
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Summary: Suspenseful Exciting Horror that gets under your skin
Review: Fallen is smart, exciting, and genuinely frightening. Denzel Washington and John Goodman give stellar performances in this creepy flick. The film is NOT predictable and stands as one of the best most intelligent horror films of the 90s.
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Summary: AMAZING!
Review: A movie filled with suspense, action and creepiness...yes, that's Fallen. It never fails to get you involved. Denzel displays an unforgettable performance!
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Summary: well..
Review: Well, the premise may be interesting but it doesnt hide the fact that the movie is just plain boring..it doesnt get off the ground and its really painful to watch.
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Summary: This is a great film. RIGHT!
Review: This film started out ok. There were some corny parts. I would have given it three stars,if it hadn't been for the ending,which I believe is the worst in movie history.
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