Possessed (2000)

That was an excellent one.

Best movie ever!

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

The action is set in the "duck and cover" epoch.All fear the "atomic attack".Bill Bowdern teaches at the Faculty of Theology,at "SLU";he was in the war and has his subsequent traumas;he drinks a little,knows much about comics and football.Bowdern defends the faith by fighting racism and gets arrested after punching a policeman.He's not afraid to use some bad language.One day,Bowdern is shown a house of the Alexian Brothers,as a terminus for the misfits.Robbie,eleven years old,is interested mainly in comics and tricks.He learns to be a ventriloquist.One day,at school,objects begin to move themselves by the boy;Robbie becomes morose,violent.He is seen by Rev. Roland Eckhardt ("a man of reason,a man of science,and a man of God",as he defines himself),who takes Robbie at his home and nearly gets killed by the boy.At first,Fr. Bowdern considers Robbie's "abnormal behavior" as "a lot of hearsay","mass hysteria".Then,he is asked to investigate the case.He does some research,finds out about Surin (as a Jesuit professor,he should have known already about Father Surin,at least as much as he knew about Lois Lane,I think).This movie is not frightful,lugubrious,scary,nor creepy,etc.;it seldom tries to be so,and in a naive,clumsy and conventional way.As a matter of fact,it bases upon facts,not upon fantasy.It tries to suggest the sinister,the horrible violence,the horrid,the fearful of the situation,by means of the reactions of those implied (W. Bowdern,Phyllis,etc.).I think it refuses to resort to cheap means in order to scare.The best actors of the show are Timothy Dalton,Shannon Lawson,Czerny and Christopher Plummer.Dalton utters sonorously,plainly,in his affected and theatrical way.W. Bowdern has a rough line:"Too many jackasses have made our decisions".On a TV in this movie we see a bit of a Bp. Sheen show ("higher than Milton Berle").

Well what can I tell you. When the boy starts to act like a talk show host..HILARIOUS!!! The cussing....well i don't like demonic possession movies with cussing. I like demonic possession movies that show physical strength of the supernatural like the classic THE EXORCIST. And in my opinion THE EXORCIST's sister THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE. Those films were great films. I loved them!!! But this was a disappointment. Wasn't scary...the demons voice was rather weird. One of the things i found cool was when he says "There is no single name. I am Legion. We are many." That was cool. When he say's his name in Latin...that was OK. It wasn't the best movie i have seen. THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE was awesome. THE EXORCIST was cool. But this is just a plain embarrassment to a modern day Hollywood horror movie. I think if you make an exorcism movie it should be as scary as THE EXORCIST and as intense as THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE. And by intense i don't mean cussing or anything like that. They could have done better than this. I know they could have.-Sorry for the horrible review but i want a decent horror movie. Not this load of crap.

This is a strange film, the kid is outstanding, really amazing for a child actor, but It's like another poster said, it's like the movie has been made by different people and when you edit their bits together it doesn't work. I think the problem is the script and editing, and Timothy Dalton. There's two basic story strands, one being Timothy Dalton's war experiences and the other being a family whose child is possessed and the intercutting between these two strands just doesn't work, you feel like you're watching two unrelated films cut together. For me, the 'name' stars like Timothy Dalton and Christopher Plummer are a distraction and unknowns would have suited the film better, but eh, I guess it would never have been made without some names appearing in it.Some of the sound is actually too complex, they have some music and spooky voices underneath the dialogue track and it just makes it hard to hear the dialogue. Feels like you need subtitles at times, but some of the sound work is interesting too.However....the possession scenes and the child actor are excellent. If you have modest expectations you may enjoy this film. It's almost a good movie.

Sorry, I see a lot of you enjoyed this movie, but, I think it was one of the most awful cheezoid productions I've ever wasted two hours of my life watching (and, for reference, I saw "The Tuxedo").Timothy Dalton's acting (or, should I say, overacting) was tortured, belabored, and felt very ungenuine. He wasn't acting as if he were a priest; he was acting as if he were wearing a priest suit.The little possessed boy was the only one who stood a chance. He acted wonderfully. However, the non-existent technical direction made me cringe: the entire audio department on this movie should have to write letters of apology. When I saw the movie earlier this week, I thought it had been made in 1980, so poor were the technical details.If I had to choose between Possessed and The Exorcist, The Exorcist would win, hands down, every day of the week and twice on Sundays. It was, at least, entertaining.