I went out last night to see The Last Exorcism, for those of you thinking this is just another one of those recent "exorcism" flicks think again. This takes a new approach at exorcism I haven't really seen before.
The Last Exorcism follows the filming of a documentary where a priest is going out to show to the world that exorcism is nothing but a scam. To try to get people to stop getting exorcisms due to a rise in deaths related to the practice. He then picks one request to do as his "final exorcism," and then he and his film crew are off to New Orleans.
As a warning, this movie is a "shaky-cam" film, aka it was shot Blair Witch style. As with all the other "shaky-cam" films this one can mess with you if you have vertigo or bad motion sickness.
Overall I'd say this is a pretty decent movie. Acting was decent, though a bit cheesy at some points. The cinematography is fairly basic, exactly what you'd expect from a shaky-cam film. Where this movie shines is its musical score. While it doesn't use it a lot to preserve realism in the quieter scenes, when it does chime in it really works.
Now for the plot. For the majority of the film the plot stays easily followed and works completely. As soon as the last 20 minutes roll around though, the plot explodes in your face. The pacing becomes extremely frantic, the films logic gets thrown out the window, and it completely destroys what the documentary was trying to do in the first place.
If they had let it be, I would be saying, hey that was a pretty good movie. Thanks to that ending though, it lost some credibility with me. My hope is that when the DVD is released there's an alternate ending.
I give it a 6/10
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