To me, this movie is perfection.

Don't listen to the negative reviews

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

I don't quite understand how this movie got such a low rating. It is a decent end-of-time movie, not a possession film. While I was watching, I was thinking that it should have a 5 to 6 IMDb star rating, but I thought maybe the ending would ruin the film just like so many other horror movies. The ending is quite good. Normally, I don't like endings that do not finish the story. So many horror films leave business unfinished so there will be an opportunity for sequels. This film could have a sequel but does not require one. The story is about the beginning of the end. If there were to be a sequel, it would have to be epic, a very different sort of film. Try "Lord of the Rings" epic. If not, then it should not be made at all.As I said before, it is not a possession movie. There may be an attempt to exorcise a demon, but if one pays attention, it is very clear why the exorcism does not work. Exorcism aims to remove a demon from the human host. It does not work if there is no demon to remove.There are many things that could be explained better, such as when the cardinal realizes he was not dealing with a run of the mill demon and when he realizes his attempt to get rid of it only serves to promote its progress. The parody of Christ's birth, death and resurrection is too subtle and needed to be more developed. We saw the cardinal's face. We know he realizes something, but most of us who are watching won't know what and won't know why he change his tactics, which turned out to be another mistake and confirmed what he already suspected, that there was no possession to be exorcised. This is not a movie about the final battle between good and evil. It's about the fight before the ultimate battle, a fight that the forces of good lose.

I went into this movie feeling pretty skeptical, and… sadly those doubts were completely justified (not that I expected much from a director otherwise known for Jason Statham action flicks). It feels like there have been a million possession movies over the years and, honestly, it's rare that I find one that I really love, and that isn't just a cookie cutter version of the same story (which, in itself, IS interesting and scary as hell, it's just rarely portrayed in a way that I find to be genuinely chilling).As if I really need to tell the plot, but… Angela (Olivia Taylor Dudley) visits the hospital for a cut finger and, later on, for a related infection. On the way home she violently takes the wheel and crashes the car, winding up in a coma for 40 days (see what they did there?). Right as they are about to pull her off life support she wakes up, seemingly none the worse for wear. Her father (Dougray Scott) and boyfriend Pete (John Patrick Amedori) — who partake in some of the most predictable banter and relationship clashing ever — are very concerned as she starts to exhibit signs of demonic possession and is subsequently admitted to a psychiatric facility, where things just get crazier until the inevitable exorcism when her true form is revealed.It's just… meh. The acting isn't bad, by any means, but it's nothing special, with Dudley being the standout but not by much. The scene where she "forces" the detective to smash the lightbulbs into his eyes is admittedly pretty awesome, but it's fleeting (not that I want to see more footage of eyeball-lightbulb-smashing, just saying it's a small glimmer of hope in an otherwise mediocre pool of movie). They use every trick in the book — Angela speaking in Aramaic, furniture moving on its own, the sudden bursts of violence by the other patients. The scene with her spitting up the eggs — apparently representing a perverted Holy Trinity — was pretty neat, as was Angela pulling on her chains so hard that she breaks her own back and arms.But they really missed the mark on most of it — they barely showed Vicar Imani (Djimon Hounsou) or Cardinal Bruun (Peter Andersson), who you would THINK would be more central characters given the name. I was hoping for a bit more backstory but instead they relied a bit too much on tired stereotypes, a fairly bland script, and unimpressive effects. Womp!

Hollywood seems to be content to churn out one cookie cutter possession movie after another at the moment. THE VATICAN TAPES is no different. Although this film bags some interesting character actors in support, it also has in director Mark Neveldine one of the lamest guys in Hollywood behind the camera. You may - or may not - remember Neveldine as one of the pair behind such delights as CRANK: HIGH VOLTAGE and GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE, two of the dumbest films made in the last decade.Neveldine's quirky direction undoubtedly drags down this film's enjoyment level from the start. THE VATICAN TAPES half wants to be a realistic found footage movie, although it isn't; for the other half, it just adopts random shaking camera-work in order to portray the unfolding events. It's headache-inducing.The narrative is clichéd and the dialogue pretty rotten, so solid actors like Dougray Scott and Djimon Hounsou are given very little to do other than show up. Once again Michael Pena wastes a potentially interesting character role, while Alison Lohman creates a character totally unsympathetic to the viewer. I appreciate the inclusion of old action B-movie stars like Michael Pare and Daniel Bernhardt in the plot, but what's the point of having them do nothing? THE VATICAN TAPES is a slow-moving tale that delivers one cliché after another, particularly an uninspired exorcism scene which certainly isn't worth sitting around for. It was certainly a waste of time for me.

-The Vatican Tapes is a 2015 American supernatural horror film directed by Mark Neveldine from a screenplay written by Christopher Borrelli, which is in turn based on a story by Chris Morgan and Christopher Borrelli. -The film stars Olivia Taylor Dudley, Kathleen Robertson, Michael Peña, Djimon Hounsou, Dougray Scott, and John Patrick Amedori, and was released on July 24, 2015, by Lionsgate.--Critical reception:-The film received generally negative reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 21%, based on 34 reviews, with an average rating of 4/10. On Metacritic the film has a score of 37 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". IGN awarded it a score of 2.5 out of ten, saying "It exists without any real scares or chills, and only the smallest attempt to differentiate itself."