Nice effects though.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

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.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

is it just me or ms Taylor Dudley not only looks uncannily like Patricia arquette in stigmata but also has a similar hair cut? i believe it is not correct to quote words of the present pope out of context and use them to support a flimsy history. no matter what your religion is, i consider completely out of place to use any past or present religious leader or their images to make the story credible. At least, The Exorcism (the first one) has not shown such low tricks

I do like the concept of possession, often it results in a decent horror movie, think Emily rose and the exorcist. This however..... I don't even know where to start.The story moves too slow. There is no jump scare and no real psychological horror aspect to it. The characters has no dimension.I just feel that they gave up before they started. There is nothing interesting about this movie and frankly i was so friggin bored. If i hadn't watched it at a friends place I Would have turned it off after 20 min.Save yourself and watch something else.

Well, this little project isn't going especially well so far, but this is the icing on the God damned cake. This movie is, surprisingly, not a found footage movie, but it incorporates found footage elements for no real reason other than to justify the "tapes" part of the title. What we have here is essentially the worst part of every exorcism movie made since the 70s smashed together in a plot that could generously be described as "unclear". There are so many things happening, and a relatively short amount of time to crush it all into, that it becomes a chaotic mess.The acting is lousy, I don't know what to say there, but I don't even necessarily blame the actors on this one. At least not entirely. There are a couple of familiar faces in Michael Peña (Fury), and Djimon Hounsou (Guardian's of the Galaxy) but even they can't really pull this movie together. The weak script, coupled with the off-the-wall style of director Mark Neveldine (Crank), really make for a lousy pairing. Neveldine-Taylor proved that they have a really frantic style of film making, and that really doesn't translate over to horror movies, particularly an exorcism movie.The exorcism scene consists of the victim screaming for a really long time, coupled with some shouting about an egg, and the usual disgusting dislocation and body contortion that have become a staple of movies like this. That said, the dislocating scene is probably one of the hardest to watch in the movie, and really did make my skin crawl. However, it's become such a common thing in movies like this that I don't want to give it too much credit.The rest of the "scary" scenes in the movie really fall flat, a police officer sees a raven and smashes two light bulbs into his eyes, which comes off as way funnier than it was supposed to. As well, you have a scene where a room full of patients in a mental hospital hear the word of the devil and kill each other and themselves, which is obviously in really great taste (read that sarcastically).One last thing that I need to harp on here is the f**king tapes. When this movie does use "found footage", it puts frames, time codes, blinking lights, and all the usual crap that lazy film makers put on their movies to make it look like its "from a camera", and it's always wrong.So, in the end the girl becomes the antichrist and goes around "parodying" Jesus (apparently) to make everyone worship here, yada yada yada, evil wins and this movie f**king sucks. Skip it.www.barleydoeshorror.com

Another found-footage movie; another exorcism movie; another possession movie. Are those complaints? Not really because I do generally enjoy these types of horrors, but The Vatican Tapes isn't really one of the better ones of the found-footage genre and is quite a bit of a let down.For me, the main let down for the most part was that it was pretty slow & dull with the best parts of the film coming in the last 20 minutes, which is the only reason why I bumped my rating from a probable 4 to 5. Other than that, it's pretty uneventful. Even the main characters (other than Angela) are pretty flat and don't have much background to them, which is a shame considering the cast.Also, for a found-footage movie, only some of the film is shot through a hand-held. The rest of the film is shot just like a regular movie, so how it can be classed as found-footage is quite strange.If you didn't know by now, The Vatican Tapes is about a woman, Angela, who mysteriously starts to change in behaviour & mannerisms, which gradually become more violent. As these incidents become more frequent, Angela is institutionalised at a psychiatric hospital, but when her psychiatrist fails to cure her, a local church priest, Father Lorenzo, begins to suspect demonic possession. Lorenzo seeks the help & guidance from Cardinal Bruun and together, along with Angela's father and boyfriend, they attempt to help Angela before its too late.If you're thinking that that story sounds familiar then you'd be right, because not only has it been done plenty of times before, but it's a dead ringer for The Exorcist, which The Vatican Tapes essentially is. Although really comparing the two is like comparing Deep Blue Sea to Jaws.As I mentioned before, the only reason I've given this movie a 5 instead of a 4 is because of the events in the third act, and while they are by no means excellent, they definitely help save the film from completely nose-diving.The Vatican Tapes is by no means the worst of this genre, but it's definitely not one of the best either.