Sorry, this movie sucks

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

The only thing I'd known about "Angel Heart" before watching it was that Mickey Rourke plays a hard-luck private eye in an '80s noir. Terror noir's more like it; this thing crosses genres like nobody's business. It is a detective story, but also a plunge into the muddied waters of New Orleans voodoo culture, and the underworld plays a huge part, but to say anything beyond that is giving the movie away. A lot of this movie is creepy imagery, and its pacing is leisurely, but the draw is that you're just as befuddled as Rourke.And *then* Alan Parker hits you square in the mouth with the twist ending; unfurling in not one, but two different surprises. Words can't really describe the scares one feels when witnessing bleeding walls or a baby with Thriller eyes, but those chills are genuine. And I don't normally sit through the end credits, but I did here; til the very end.I just couldn't look away.8/10

Angel Heart is a sharp looking, well acted, tightly directed dark thriller that is quite complex and well made. Director Alan Parker blends mystery private detective story with supernatural horror very well, with lots of atmosphere and suspense to boot. The cast is excellent with Mickey Rourke as the leading man and scruffy faced private detective and employed by the mysterious figure Louis Cypher to track down crooner Johnny Favorite. Deniro is great as the prince of darkness and throw in Lisa Bonet of Cosby Show fame to provide the audience with some great eye candy. Angel Heart is quite violent and contains a lot of nudity as well, but pulls off being a classy production as the subject matter and story demands the level of sex and violence contained here. Angel Heart predates the somewhat similar Devil's Advocate and in my opinion Angel Heart is a superior film and is ten times better. That, I must digress is a matter of personal taste, but this is a platform to express ones opinions and that is exactly what I am doing. Awesome movie by the way, Angel Heart is great stuff.

Movie is created in late 80's they showed time of 50's and I watched in 2016 but director have done very good job with it. Still those movies which are created now and showing the old time are very similar to this movie. They used two great actors Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro but story more revolve around mickey. One thing they are showing is very irritating that is Robert's nails again and again they are showing it except that everything is good. So, movie starts with mickey and he is private detective, Robert is his client and gave him the work to find the missing person. Than mickey started his search and try contact everyone who knows him and he found out that guy is related to dark magic also. Who so he contacted is getting killed than he got scared to much. After sometime he found out that his client is Lucifer the demon and he is here to take him down to hell and that guy whom he is searching was himself. He lost his memory 12 year ago living under some other name and he was killing everyone by instruction of the demon. This movie is full of suspense and movie is little slow. If you are fan of mickey you will like this movie. Robert de niro has very less role.

One of the problems with the story of Faust, the man in the German legend who sold his soul to the Devil, is that we never understood why anyone would make such a foolish bargain in the first place. A few decades of wealth, power, fame, and sex in exchange for an eternity of suffering the fires of Hell? Evil may be fascinating, but stupidity never is, and we quickly lose interest in the fate of anyone dumb enough to do that. The story fares much better when understood in the allegorical sense, of course, but it is always better if a story makes sense literally if it is to have much value figuratively.This movie solves that problem. Johnny Liebling is a crooner who thinks he knows a way to trick Satan. He makes a pact with him, in which Satan gets Johnny's soul in exchange for fame as a singer, under the name Johnny Favourite. Having made the deal and benefited from it, he then performs a ritual that involves cutting the heart out of a soldier and eating it. By so doing, Johnny is able to substitute the soldier's soul for his own, the result being that the soldier's soul will have to suffer the fires of Hell, while Johnny's soul does not. The soldier's name is Harold Angel, suggesting his innocence, of course. As part of the ritual, the soldier's dog tags are sealed up in vase. Only if Johnny himself opens the vase will the ritual be undone. Because Satan wants Johnny's soul and not Angel's, he must trick Johnny into breaking open the vase.When World War II breaks out, Johnny is drafted and subsequently suffers an injury, which causes him to have amnesia. He spends some time in a hospital, but his friends get him out. Not knowing what to do with him, they simply drop him off in a crowd of people on New Year's Eve. As a result of Johnny's confused memory about swapping souls with Harold Angel, he comes to believe that he is Harold Angel, and eventually starts working as a private detective under that name.Ten years after the war, which is when the movie starts, this Harold Angel is hired by Louis Cyphre (Lucifer) to find Johnny Favourite. Angel does not realize it, but he has been hired by the Devil to find himself. We do not realize it either, at this point, and we are encouraged by the movie to like Angel and to identify with him. He seems to be basically a nice guy. As he starts investigating, he begins experiencing disturbing images from the past. Little by little, he begins to suspect the truth. He is horrified at the idea that he might be Johnny Favourite, and having come to like him and identify with him, we are horrified too.In his desperation to assure himself that he is who he thinks he is, he breaks open the vase, and the dog tags of the real Harold Angel fall out. The spell is broken. At this point, Louis Cyphre appears, announcing that Johnny's soul now belongs to him. Finally, recent memories that Johnny had distorted are replaced by accurate ones, and he is forced into the realization that he has murdered several people.Because Johnny thought he had a way to trick the Devil, this story works on a literal plane. And by making us like him as Harold Angel and identify with him, the movie forces us to realize that we too may not be as good as we like to think we are, that we too have something inside us that is evil.But a remark made by Louis Cyphre gives this Faustian story a new twist. Cyphre says that Johnny was doomed the minute he cut that boy's heart out. In other words, all that dabbling in black magic and making a pact with the Devil was just so much hocus-pocus. In itself, it was harmless nonsense, and Johnny would never have gone to Hell for that. It was only when he did something truly evil, when he murdered that soldier, that Johnny was damned. By this remark, Cyphre links the literal understanding of this story with its allegorical one.