Movie review by: Michelle
Click here for pictures A couple of the action pieces are
well-staged, especially the thing with Arnold hanging from a helicopter and rescuing a
suicidal gun-man by the clutches of his jacket. But as a devil movie, it comes across less
favorably.
It's not really scary, just a-heck-of-a-lot gory. How gory? Like to see a 'pickled
tongue' in a jar, or a body 'crucified' to the ceiling of a hospital room? The young
fragile-minded will find it too traumatising, but this is only more so at the first half
of the movie, building up the suspense. The second half of the movie shows more action and
explosions.
Arnold, making his movie return after two and a half years off to recuperate after a
heart surgery, looks like his old self here, muscles abound and all. He plays a
muscle-for-hire in New York, a former cop now alcoholic and suicidal after the murder of
his wife and child. He must keep a woman, (unbeknownst to her, has been chosen to bear
Satan's child) out of the clutches of the devil.
Satan, played by Gabriel Byrne, reminds me of Al Pacino in the Devil's Advocate.
There's one interesting scene in the middle of the picture, when the devil corners Arnold
in his dreary apartment and tries to tempt him over to the dark side. When asked about the
end of the world, he replied, 'think of it as a change of management'. He has the best
lines in the movie.
The story line is kinda lame. But then, don't bother finding logic. What we go to the
movies for is to sit back and enjoy the scenes (gore and all included), action and
explosions (promised to be a-plenty). A word of caution though, this is NOT a movie for
the fragile minded, it would be too gory and traumatic, so don't say you had not been
forewarned.
