‘The Rite’ Film Delivered Extreme Exorcism Scenes With Anthony Hopkins

By Guest Author on February 5th, 2011.
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New Line Cinema recently released a new Anthony Hopkins,branded thriller/horror film “The Rite” into movie theaters. I just watched it,and thought it was pretty good. It delivered a ton of intense exorcism scenes with actor Anthony Hopkins. It stars: Anthony Hopkins, Colin O’Donoghue, Alice Braga, Ciaran Hinds,and Rutger Hauer.

“The Rite” movie centered around characters Michael Kovak (O’Donoghue) and Father Lucas Trevant (Hopkins). Michael is a young American Priest who has issues with his own faith. He has a difficult time believing that the Devil exist as well as the so-called Demonic possessions. The movie,often times, showed flashbacks of Michael’s childhood,which is where he first developed his faith issues when his father passed away.

Michael travels to Italy to learn more about exorcism from Father Lucas because his teacher in America thought he needed to gain some real experience with exorcism since he doubted it a lot. In just a few minutes after arriving at Lucas’ house,Michael gets introduced to his first live exorcism with a girl who is pregnant and experiences frequent possessions.

Even after Michael sees a ton of convincing evidence of possession,he still feels doubt for the faith. The possessed girl spits out nails,blood,her voice gets crazy deep,her body contorts,along with other kinds of weird stuff,but Michael still swears she just needs to see a psychiatrist for this issue.

Eventually, Michael starts getting issues of his own,which were brought on by weird dreams he had about his dead father. Father Lucas tries to help him through his issues. However, Michael’s doubting faith gets put to a major test when the demon possesses someone he never thought it would possess,and if Michael doesn’t collect some faith fast,his life and other’s lives are definitely in danger.

Michael and his girlfriend are standing in the room while the possession is going on,and things get very rough. Michael gets put in a very dangerous position,and has to deal with his faith issues and problems with God to overcome what is getting ready to destroy him. The conclusion was very intense and kept me on the edge of my seat.

The flick was extremely entertaining and interesting. However, there were some slow times during the film,and I found myself dosing off for a little while,but things did pick up in a major way. It delivered a lot of “can’t miss,” emotional moments. The exorcism scenes were amazingly disturbing and convincing. I gave the flick a strong B rating.

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