What a waste of my time!!!

This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Please don't spend money on this.

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

This is a good film not a great film, then again if you can not make a decent film with this cast I would give up. The acting is great but it is let down by a plot which at times makes little sense, things are talked about and are never followed up, they try to make to many mini story lines while leaving the main plot a bit under cooked. The ending is disappointing as it fails to add up, if the cat is possessed in the end then how is Denzel Washington doing the voice? it is a shame as a bit more care with the story line and a better script it would have been a 10, I enjoyed it hence 6 my wife did not like it as it was confusing.

Originally reviewed: 16/02/2017). I feel like this is another one of those films that has an intriguing premise but doesn't take advantage of it, and settles for predictable clichés with a lot of people dying by gunshots or a stab wounds and gaping holes within the story. Denzel Washington plays the lead character John Hobbes and as usual turns in a good performance, also starring are the talented John Goodman (Jonesy), Donald Sutherland (Lieutenant), James Gandolfini (Lou) and the lovely Embeth Davidtz (Gretta Milano) who is perhaps my favourite character in the entire picture. I also enjoyed the Soundtrack from the Rolling Stones, which included Sympathy for the Devil for the closer and Time is on my side as a chant whilst characters were under possession.Setting aside the performances, there is a lot of problems; Kazan's dialogue is usually stuff you hear in every serial killer film that wants to be like Fincher's brilliant Seven, but is anything but original with the exception of a nonsensical phrase where one character says "demons are like the mafia, they don't exist". I don't think you can compare a supernatural force to Italian gangsters but Fallen has that audacity to do so. I had a lot of questions too while watching the picture such as fair points regarding the plot; why do certain people have religious tattoos on them when there found dead, because there must be some explanation, perhaps I missed it. Also if people are merely possessed by something simple such as a tap on the shoulder, why not use it to obtain world domination by possessing a president or someone along them lines, this is a missed opportunity.I really disliked the lack of substance as well, for a picture that does a lot of blabbering, there isn't much that is substantial unless it's during a scene where we see the demon possessing various people and so forth. The demon is called Azazel and we know little about it, which is not much of a problem I guess as the picture is lacking story-wise from beginning to end. Fallen's ending is what turns this poor supernatural thriller into a really bad mess though. A stupid scene involving a showdown between Hobbes and Azazel, but what you should know is the outcome is pointless in the end, as it makes no difference if Hobbes sacrifices himself as Azazel jumping into a cat means he lives, so Hobbes has died for nothing and the demon can continue its carnage for centuries to come.

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.

Fallen can be viewed as a straight-out supernatural thriller, in which case it may not seem to be as good as others in the genre. However, the real value of this production is found when the entire text is considered metaphorically, at which point it emerges that the "demon" moving from one person to another represents the causal mechanism of moral corruption in disguise. People are corrupted by other corrupt people, and the chain of corruption is lengthened over time as more and more people are persuaded to sacrifice their beliefs and principles for those of others who wish to capitalize upon their weakness.I found this film quite thought provoking, and I dislike supernatural thrillers in general. For that reason, I'd say that people who favor the genre may not like this movie, though they may. The people who praise this film are obviously digging beneath the surface.