The film allows Russell Crowe to have fun with the part of a demon-hunting Italian priest, but it forgets to have fun along with him.
is a shot of Russell Crowe’s Father Gabriele Amorth puttering around on a Vespa, the actor’s portly frame and the little scooter beneath him giving off rather comic, bear-on-a-tricycle vibes. It’s certainly a different direction from and its indelible silhouette of Max von Sydow’s Father Merrin standing outside a dark house. This all seems intentional: Crowe
. And in the age of virality, you can just as easily sell a horror movie with an incongruously adorable image as you can with a terrifying one.. The film, directed by Julius Avery offers generic thrills mounted atop one another. It tries to make up for its lack of mood and suspense with busy intercutting and an overreaching plot that promises much but delivers little. The picture’s chief asset is Crowe, who understands that Amorth works best as a somewhat comic figure.
In his heyday, when he was justly regarded as one of our best actors, Crowe tended to play characters who were strangely inaccessible: obsessives, violent men, vengeful nobles, brilliant scientists. They were compelling but portrayed at a remove — because nobody could be as intense as Russell Crowe. In recent years, the movies haven’t always been great, but he seems more relaxed, his characters more bloke-y.
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