Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Five legged dog Fallen's best moments come at the very end of the movie, with a final twist that you won't see coming. As climaxes go, it's inventive, memorable and tongue-in-cheek. Unfortunately, the rest of the film is nowhere near as good.This came as a real surprise to me given the presence of Washington, Sutherland and Goodman - actors who can bring roles to life. Here, that just isn't enough.The plot is creaky, the dialogue wooden, and reactions to emotionally explosive events just aren't believable. There are scenes and shots which serve no real purpose beyond product placement or faffing around, and which slow down the story. Gretta Milano - as resident theologian - is on hand to explain the Biblical backstory, but her role otherwise just seems stuffed in. That's the case with much of this movie: it's as if the whole thing was written for the twist.What I like about Fallen is it's slightly cynical, sombre mood - it had me thinking of Alan Parker's Angel Heart in style, plot and cinematography. Fallen is also pretty philosophical, yet still has its share of creepiness and scares. The twist, as I've said is worth waiting for - but it also leaves me feeling this film could have been so much more.The 'demonic' genre is hard to pull off at the best of times; the exposition can easily sound cheesy and hard to believe: Devil's Advocate-level sophistication (i.e., not overly subtle!) pretty much sums this film up. Ignore the many plot holes - and play Biblical bingo as you go - and Fallen is watchable enough, but it falls far short of greatness.

generationofswine OK, for those of us that remember the 80s and 90s Denzel Washington sorta kinda totally ruled. He was all that and a bag of chips...And now, for the most part, he is playing the smart clever cop...over and over and over and over and over and over again.What the heck happened Denzel? In "Training Day" you played a cop, but you played a villain cop that was so evil that you made us all hate you! You turned "Malcolm X" into a great movie despite Spike Lee's involvement! And now you play the same role over and over again. You are breaking our heart...But for those of you that love the type-casted Denzel, Fallen will work for you. Again he's the clever and wise detective, but this time the movie has a creepy and delightfully fun supernatural twist...Plus it was made when Denzel was still acting and not just phoning it in, so, you know, you have the REAL Denzel Washington, not the made-for-TV Denzel Washington.And on top of the fact that this was made when Denzel was great and still actually acting, you have a small but powerful Elias Koteas role.Elias Koteas the B-list actor that ALWAYS brings his A-game to every film no matter how small the role is. And in this movie, the role is tiny and so well done that you walk away remembering that tiny little role as powerful, as fantastic, as, well, A-game awesome.Koteas literally outshined Washington when Washington was at his finest. He introduced us to the film and set a bar so high that everyone was forced to deliver their best work.And then the plot, the creepy demon that can jump from body-to-body by a simple touch. You haven't seen that before and you won't see that again. Not only that, but it was done so well that you will never listen to that Rolling Stones song the same way again.The movie is start-to-finish clever. The acting is brilliant. It is a must-see.

FlashCallahan Detective John Hobbes attends the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. They have a private chat where Reese gives him a riddle of sorts and then speaks in a strange language. The riddle leads him to a once decorated officer who went to his cottage in the woods and killed himself. It was never explained why but when Hobbes looks around the cottage, he finds the name Azazel on the wall. Hobbes soon learns that Azazel is an evil spirit who can transfer itself from one person to another through touch. As Hobbes comes to realise the extent Azazel is responsible for much of the evil around him he also realises that Azazel is after him.......If you remember the Lou Diamond Phillips movie from 1990 The First Power, you will realise that this is nothing more than a remake of that movie, albeit with a higher calibre of acting on show, and all the camp jokes taken away in favour of straight up thrills.Washington is the Everyman police officer, and this was the point in his career when he was still having fun in his career, starring in more low budget B-movie fodder like this and Virtuoisty, rather than being more choosy like he has been in the last fifteen years (2 guns aside).And it's pretty good stuff, quite creepy in places, and there is one scene where Davidtz is being chased down the street by the Demon, but it looks more like an extreme game of tick/freeze-tag.There are a few questions that are unanswered that really irk the viewer, I really wish the his brothers character was fleshed out more, and the ending doesn't really make sense, why didn't he let him bleed slowly to death and run off?It's not a bad film though.

mariondowning-427-469344 So, early on in the film we learn that the demon can't possess the body of Hobbes, yet at the end Hobbes kills himself so the demon can't possess his body. They must think their audience have really short memories and it seems many reviewers do, since they thought this movie was "clever" "thought provoking" "suspenseful" etc when a major plot hole like that was was used to hurriedly finish the movie. Stupid = the same ending as other films where the antagonist/ protagonist comes back in another life form (Aliens and Species to name two franchises with such endings).