Misses out on a few chances- **

The movie misses out on a couple of chances to become more than just a typical exorcism movie.  The title was intriguing and sounds a little subversive.  And for someone who gets easily scared with horror films, the scare factor of this film is just OK for me.

The story is about the coming of the anti-Christ.  The lead coming into this event was triggered by a series of tapes kept by the Vatican, particularly two priests who were closely monitoring the works of the devil.  They stumbled upon the psychotherapy session of Angela whose strange behavior started when she got treated for a cut on her finger.  This alarmed the people close to her and they eventually had to put her in a psychiatric ward.   Seeing the typical signs of a possession the Vatican steps in to perform exorcism.

This movie does not scare much,  maybe just a few scenes. I usually walk out of the theater when I can not handle being scared anymore but this was just fine. I sat through it waiting to be more scared but it did not happen.  I am not complaining though.  What this movie did not try to do, is to use more techniques, like editing and camera work to work up the suspense of this film, but I guess this film just wanted to tell the story as it is.

It could have been an exciting film, from the title alone to the actors involved.  I had expected more intriguing stuff from the basement of the Vatican, working on the premise that they do keep documentations of these kind of phenomenon.  I wanted to see more of Djimon but he was just there merely at the start and at the end of the movie.  Michale Pena  was limited to his clerical collar and could not do much to add character to the film.   It has spent a lot of time trying to confirm Angela's problem that the movie ends while it was just starting to get exciting.