The Rite

Movie: The Rite

Cast:    Colin O’Donoghue     (Michael Kovak)

            Anthony Hopkins       (Father Lucas Trevant)

            Alice Braga                 (Angeline)

            Rutgar Hauer              (Istvan Kovak)

            Toby Jones                  (Father Matthew)

            Ciarán Hinds               (Father Xavier)

Genre: drama

Synopsis: Michael Kovak and his father own a mortuary.  Michael decides to attend seminary school.  When he decides to drop out due to faith issues, Father Matthew makes a deal with him.  Michael will go to the Vatican to attend exorcism school.  If he still wants to drop out after that – he can.

While in Rome, one of Michael’s instructors, Father Xavier sees that Michael does not really believe in the idea of a person being possessed by demons.  Father Xavier sends Michael to Father Lucas.  Father Lucas takes Michael along for a couple of exorcisms, but Michael is still not convinced that what he is seeing is just some form of psychosis.  Then things start happening to Michael and he starts seeing and hearing things that cannot be.  By the end of the movie, Michael is a believer.

My two cents: Good but not great.  Some pretty decent possession scenes – but nothing as graphic as we saw in The Exorcist.

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