The Rite

Watched the Blu-Ray version of The Rite (2011) today. Great movie with Anthony Hopkins. Then again, movies with Anthony Hopkins, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicolas Cage are usually pretty good. I would say always instead of "usual" if it wasn't for Cage's movie called Adaptation. THAT MOVIE SUCKED SO BAD! I freaking hated that movie with a passion. Worst movie EVER.

The movie is based on a real life account, about a guy that didn't want to become a mortician like his dad, and in his family you'd either be a mortician or a priest, so he decided to become a priest.

Four years down the line, when he's almost done with the Seminary and his studies, he has a choice to make. Either pay 100 grand for his college education that he's received in the Seminary or go to Rome for just a month to attend the Exorcist class. Once in Rome the guy that's teaching the Exorcist class tells him to meet a friend of his, that friend being played by Hopkins, a very unorthodox priest, and from there things get interesting and I won't say anything else as it would spoil the plot too much.

In the end, the American priest that goes to Rome turns out to be only 1 of the 14 existing priests in the US capable/certified to be an Exorcist. Obviously the screen writer had some creative liberty so it didn't really feel like a documentary, and it turned out to be a really great movie.

I could be a little biased saying how great the movie is considering I'm a christian but it does have a 6.0 rating in IMDB.com, which is normally the minimum rating that determines whether I'll watch a movie or not. My personal rating of 8.0 on this one.