My problems...

Just watched on Netflix because it had Anthony Hopkins in it, but I wish I spent my time on something else.

One I find it ridiculous that Kovak just failed upwards the entire time, he flat out states he has no faith and instead of incurring $100,000 in debt he gets sent to Rome. There he flat out tells anyone who listens that he still doesn't believe and the in the end he has an epiphany, defeats Ba'al and all is good.

Two, this film suffered from not having any subtitles, I understand not translating the Latin, but half of Hopkins' dialogue was in Roman and in his interviews with his patients he never translates himself or let Kovak (us) I. On what's going on. If you're training somebody for a job, wouldn't it make sense to tell them what you're doing

Three, the phone call. No not the phone with the dead dad, but the one in the middle of the first exorcism, it was funny, but it had no revelance, never mentioned again, and flat out served no purpose.

Four, seems odd to try to build a love story around around a priest, no?

Five, the joke about turning heads to let us know that this is taking itself seriously, then they show the possessed doing thing a normal body couldn't do, but they never exploit that. Pregnant woman contorts, arms stretch really far, but nothing was even borderline horrifying let alone made one feel the supernatural-ness of the events

All in all this just seemed like a poorly thought out cash grab. PG-13 horror does well on Friday nights, I get that, but a slow paced movie about faith disguised as a horror movie starring Anthony Hopkins was a terrible idea. It never committed to its audience, it's subject, or the horror that it could have exhibited.