Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist
Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist
R | 20 May 2005 (USA)
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Father Merrin takes a sabbatical from the Church to devote himself to history and archaeology as he struggles with his shattered faith.

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Forumrxes

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

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StyleSk8r

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

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FirstWitch

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

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Portia Hilton

Blistering performances.

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adonis98-743-186503

Years before Father Lankester Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil's soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa. Merrin's initial battle with Pazuzu leads to the rediscovery of his faith. Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist is the Prequel and Sequel to Exorcist: The Beginning but also a very different story than the previous film. Once again Stellan Skarsgård does a very good job as Father Lankester Merrin and the storyline although it kinda reminded me a bit of the 2nd film it's actually fun and makes sense unlike that horrible one. (7.5/10) (B+)

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Jordan Linesworth

The acting, and writing, and direction is astounding. The tone is a perfectly timed building of mystery and dread, and the opening scene is quite frankly unforgettable. I will say nothing here to avoid spoiling it, but for an actor who has just one scene the soldier who dominates that first Merrin confrontation was more terrifying than Christoph Waltz in "Inglorious Bastards". It wouldn't surprise me if Christoph secretly drew inspiration from him. It is truly shameful that the studio had an entirely different film shot in this ones place and then left this unfinished for so long, releasing the far inferior "The Beginning" directed by Renny Harlin. The special effects let "Dominion" down where because funding for this version was pulled, the director (Paul Schrader) went on to finish it anyway, with some crude FX shots. Underneath the shots that remind you this is a movie, is an immersing masterpiece waiting to be realised. Sadly it never will be, but I know it is under there. And I will always praise how close they came to it under the circumstances that the studio put them through. What a cast. What writer. What a director.

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shinsrevenge

The story isn't really exciting. You just sit there and watch. There are some slightly interesting scenes, some supposedly shocking ones (uh, a dead newborn full of worms - how terrifying...), a few funny lines (even though I doubt that they were meant to be this way)... but nothing special. All plain and ordinary stuff. Not even the effects are well made. Especially the hyenas looked really cheap.In the beginning, we see a scene from Father Merrins' past. Even though it helps understand, why he lost his belief, it doesn't seem to play such an important role. It's not like you ever wonder yourself, why Father Merrin acts the way he does. Then comes for a long while pretty much nothing important. At the last third of the movie, a young man (Cheche) gets possessed by an evil spirit. It doesn't act very evil, though. It even warns an unexperienced priest (Father Francis), not to touch it with anything holy. The second time he tries it, that evil spirit throws the priest onto the statue of an angel with such force, that you hear every bone in the priests body (and probably his spine, too), break. Nevertheless the young priest stands up and walks away to find some book, in order to drive away the evil spirit. They must have messed something up. It's Cheche, who got possessed and thus gained supernatural powers, not the priest. A few scenes later we see that hard to kill Father Francis again. This time, he is spiked with arrows like a hedgehog. But no big deal, of course. Seriously, that priest must be the incarnation of Archangel Michael himself. Gimme a break...What started out like an average movie, evolved to a disappointing waste of time. Dominion is hardly worth being watched.

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Rodrigo Amaro

It's really difficult to say something good of "Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist" considering that "The Exorcist" is one of the greatest horror movies ever made. And try to add something great to the background of an iconic character such Father Merrin is absolutely ridiculous. Forget about Renny Harlin's movie and forget about this one. William Friedkin is, was and always will be the story you must remember and watch over and over again. Although William Peter Blatty author of the book and the first film claimed to have enjoyed the film directed by Paul Schrader, I must say that this disappointing effort adds almost nothing interesting to the series and to the career of the person involved with it.Similar to "Exorcist: the Beginning" (2004) Father Merrin is played again by Stellan Skarsgard and again his first involvement with exorcisms begun during an archaeological expedition in Africa inside of the ruins of an ancient church. Suddenly strange events starts to happen and faithful Merrin tries to comprehend all this things. The vantage of this film towards the one released in 2004 is the good dramatic moments, involving Merrin and Father Francis (Gabriel Mann) quest for faith. The horror was very boring, nothing scary or memorable to see, and that is the biggest problem of the film besides some exaggerations concerning too much summary executions that happens throughout the film (the script proves a point with that but sometimes it's just too repetitive and annoying). Performances are okay, Gabriel Mann is very good in every scene he appears (very sexy dressed as a priest); Stellan is not much likable during some scenes but dominates greatly during the last moments. Morgan Creek the distributor of this film should be ashamed to release this film and the other one directed by Renny Harlin, it only trashed a good franchise and added nothing meaningful to it. Boring experience. 3/10

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