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The Last Rite (2021)
This is unreal
Unfortunately this move is quite the waste of time. Not a lot happens in this movie, and if it does, it will go unexplained and unresolved. The boyfriend is horrendously rude for no reason, and never resolved. Not only that, his personality switches on command with no explanation, there was a lot of focus on his career with no connection or necessity. He doesn't believe in anything that's been going on despite seeing photo evidence and a physically ill partner who explained her religious trauma, he then decides to get drunk and become too afraid to join in the exorcism. Useless character to the entire story. The demon recites the famous "legion" line, explaining how powerful it must be, yet does nothing but hop around the house and sneak away. For being such a powerful presence, nobody is harmed in this movie and the possessor doesn't really do anything except waste peoples time talking about it, such as mine.
The extent of the demons power is opening and closing doors, aside from choking the female lead several times, yet always letting her go at the last minute for some reason.
There is no explained connection made between the hat man/sleep paralysis and Christian demons, and neither are really even explored. At one point, the girlfriend asks the partner "who lived in this house before you?" To which he replies defensively and horribly aggressive, as if he's hiding something. Still, he explains that it's fairly new and the old owners moved to Australia for reasons unknown, and never to be known. ??? What is the meaning of this? Why do we know they didn't own it long, how new the residence is, and where they went to? Why do we know the boyfriend is wealthy and work obsessed and should be speaking with some dude named Jason? None of this makes any difference to anything at all.
We are introduced to a father in a local church, who decides to perform the exorcism without church consent. Cool enough idea, he then introduces us to an ex minister and explains so many things at once. Why do we need to know all this when the ex minister is in maybe 10 minutes? And during which, he runs away from the exorcism, shows back up to help, and then drives the father home. There's some information about his wife having died because of church decisions but that is about all we hear of it, as suddenly he decides that he will help with the exorcism. No explanation. The overall feeling of this film reminds me of a depressing day. No visible colors aside from grey, no true relationship between any two characters, no real stakes, unexplainable emotions, and most of all, what you are witnessing feels bizarre but not memorable.