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Martin, doesn’t give Peña enough to work with, and so the potential metaphor withers. (Neveldine himself isn’t a stranger to social commentary- Gamer is one of the more astute movies I’ve seen about the Internet’s negative effects on interpersonal communication.) Yet the script, credited to Christopher Borrelli (not the Tribune features writer) and Michael C. That’s actually not a bad approach-that the priest feels prepared to confront the Devil after two tours of Iraq suggests a metaphor for the dehumanizing effects of the war on American soldiers. Yet he plays it straight here, rooting his characterization in the priest’s war-related trauma. Those two components all but promise good, cartoonish fun, as Peña has often proven himself an adept comic actor.
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Occasionally Vatican hints at the wilder film it might have been-if you can find air-conditioning someplace other than a multiplex, I’d recommend going there and imagining that other movie instead.īesides having Neveldine behind the camera, Vatican features a lead performance by Michael Peña as a former soldier turned Catholic priest. The demonic possession subgenre could have really benefited from those qualities, as the films tend to be dour and visually uninspired, yet Neveldine applies his gifts stingily. Those films were adolescent and exuberant, made buoyant by irreverent humor and athletic camerawork. The most surprising thing about it may be how serious it is, given that the director is Mark Neveldine-one half of the duo Neveldine/Taylor, who made the live-action cartoons Crank, Gamer, and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. I wouldn’t call Vatican a bad movie, just an exceedingly familiar one, rife with sequences you’ve probably seen in numerous other Exorcist knockoffs. If you’re so desperate to sit in an air-conditioned room that you’ll see any movie in town, then you might take a forgiving attitude toward The Vatican Tapes, a forgettable horror film currently playing at a few Chicago multiplexes.
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