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Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Kirpianuscus a good story. good performances. interesting construction, using historical and religious pieces for a moral lesson about sin, judgment and prices of the life. and the impeccable building of a way to the truth of a young monk, with precise duty, discovering obscure details from a Church who seems be perfect, old secrets and old rules, the beautiful work of Heath Ledger are virtues of a f seductive film, remembering Da Vinci Code but being more profound as sender of a too precise universal message.

Chris Jacobsson For years this movie was actually my favorite of all time, or at the very least tied with Bill Murray's "The Life Aquatic". This movie IS NOT A HORROR FILM. Get that ridiculous thought out of your heads people. In summation, it's a drama that brings characters to the brink of self-destruction in a Dogmatic Catholic universe (e.g. Vatican City). This is a pseudo-exorcism movie, insofar that there are exorcisms of a sort, but then you are made to think about the repercussions. The CGI is cheesy, but this is circa 2003, probably went in production in 2002. We didn't even have iPods back then, and the smartest phone you could get was a Blackberry, with a Palm Pilot to back it up. There are a couple of lines that seem forced, and I know for a fact that there is a part that I typically fast-forward through to get through the dialogue. All said, this is not an A movie, but definitely more deserving than the D rating most everyone is giving it.The people who rate this film low are the same ones responsible for the fact that we can EXPECT a new Transformers, Avengers, Twilight, etc. film year after year.

lost-in-limbo Around the end / beginning of the millennium, religious horror seemed to be the in-thing ("End of Days", "Stigmata", "Possession", The Ninth Gate" and so on) "The Sin Eater" aka "The Order" was one of those interesting efforts, although not particularly successful in its final twisty vision. There it would come and go, being one of the lesser catholic horror films of early 2000s. The interest for it might have peaked within the last few years, because it starred Heath Ledger. But the main reason why it probably didn't find an audience to begin was that it's a very hard film to classify or sell. It was shelved for a brief period before actually being released too. After the strange death of his mentor, a rogue priest heads to Italy to begin an investigation and uncovers it points to an ancient being the Sin-eater who during a ritual would swallow the sins of a dying person. How it went about things wasn't what I was expecting, but it does throw everything in, but the kitchen sink and because of that it doesn't completely gel. Constant mystery, forbidden love, the supernatural, religious overtones, hidden agendas, spirituality and some humour. Uneven writing and somnolent direction, just makes it confounding and wayward in tone. Still it's interesting due to its dark philological context. While the plot might be a jumble of ideas, at least the narrative is far from predictable as the antagonist isn't quite as clear-cut leading us to believe there might just be more surprises waiting. Surprisingly the material is remains cerebral and patiently handled not trying to over feed any sort of explanation, but still it's jaded in its structure asking you to pay real close attention as its clouded and full of manipulation. Writer / director Brian Helgeland's slick styling is picturesque (beautiful Gothic Italian locations) and old-fashion in its story-telling and in its use of suspense. Some of the special effects are questionably distracting, but never spoiling. The performances won't win any awards, but are durable. Ledger might feel a little out of sorts, but he remains solidly likable. Benno Furmann is intruding as the sin eater and Mark Addy plays the larger than life priest. Shannyn Sossamon has a disconnected persona and Peter Weller has a memorable, but small turn. "The Sin Eater" might just have too much going on, but it's worth the curiosity."Sin eaters haven't existed for two centuries".

dbborroughs This should have retained the title Sineater since thats more to the point of what the film is about. This is one of those movies that shows signs of being tinkered with, mostly in that chunks of it don't make sense, or a sense that seems to have been cut out. Basically the film has Heath Ledger as a priest going to Rome to investigate the death of the head of his order. Its more complicated than that, and for a good chunk of it, it doesn't make sense, not that it ever fully does. Frankly for good or bad this film is going to stay with me for a long time. Its not what ever it was advertised as, its an occult mystery thats closer to the Club Dumas, the source of the Johnny Depp movie, the 9th Gate, than to a conventional horror film. I like the film. Its very flawed but its interesting enough and raises some good questions about salvation and the church. If you want to try something different, and don't mind that its not perfect, I say try this. (forgive me there is an urge to wax poetic about bits of it...)