I'm going
to tell you about a movie I almost like...
"Fallen" has always intrigued me. On the one hand, I really shouldn't like it. It's slow paced, the supernatural ingredients border the frivolous (a demon that makes people sing Rolling Stones?), and the ending is all wrong. Damn that cat!
And yet...
And yet, I find myself watching it every time Swedish TV reruns it. The actors are one reason: Denzel Washington, Donald Sutherland and John Goodman. The plot is also quite interesting. And if you have the right sense of humour, you might even appreciate the idea of a demon singing like Mick Jagger!
The main character of the movie, detective John Hobbes, is chasing a strange killer who turns out to be an ancient demon or fallen angel, named Azazel. The demon kills several people and then attempts to frame Hobbes for the murders. One of the victims is Hobbes' own brother. Azazel has the ability to jump from person to person, making them demon-possessed. Hobbes soon realizes that another police officer, Milano, has fought the demon. Before committing suicide under mysterious circumstances, Milano left a number of occult books in an abandoned mountain cabin. From these books, Hobbes finds out that Azazel has one fatal weakness: the demon can't survive in dead bodies, and it dies itself if it cannot switch hosts within a few seconds. Chased by the entire police force, Hobbes decides to lure Azazel into the wilderness, where there are no humans to be possessed within miles. The stage is set for a final show down between Man and Fallen Angel.
I won't reveal how the movie ends, but I would have appreciated another ending. If you've seen "Fallen", you know what I mean. Frankly, the ending annoys me!
Still, I give the movie four stars. As already mentioned, the actors are great, the plot is interesting, and the strange lack of action (in a movie filled with murders!) is actually quite relaxing.
But damn, damn that cat...
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