At first glance this seems to be a more refined look at the Exorcism sub-genre as it casts the thespian heavy-hitter Anthony Hopkins as Father Trevant, a veteran exorcist who takes a skeptical young student (Colin O'Donoghue) under his wing, but with a PG-13 rating the film never delves deep enough to produce any thrills. Instead of a disturbing, in-your-face exorcism, the slow character driven opening scenes are a nice change of pace. O'Donoghue does a fine job in his most prominent role to date as an intelligent and capable young man forced into his roles in the story. The latter half isn't particularly fresh and the ending is handled with Saturday morning cartoon kid-gloves.
2½ your father sucks clocks in Hell out of 5
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