Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Megamind To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Solen 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.

sunlit_dreams You'd get more chills from standing in front of your open refrigerator in the hottest part of Summer! Calling this movie a 'generic Exorcist' is an insult to that movie!So, let me help you not to waste your time... Oh no! Here comes the anti-Christ, and she's got perfect hair with a perfect part! That's it! Now you can go rent something worth watching, or do what I did and rent it from your local library, so you don't waste your money! If you want to have your own MST3K (Mystery Science Theater 3000) party, then this might be a winner that will gain plenty of laughs!Hmm.. and I smell bad fish... "Prerecorded videotape supplied by CBN ©2008 Christian Broadcasting Network Inc." Let's jump on the 'Found Footage' bandwagon and milk that fad! I guess they had to put something in there to convince people they should go see it! There's even videos on You Tube discussing how 'real' it is. *sigh* Justin Chang's review on Variety says, "For all that, "The Vatican Tapes" never becomes anything more than straight-up Catholic exploitation, pure and unapologetic." Yeah!It did get a reaction from me when the effects made it seem she almost tore her arms off, when she very severely dislocated them. I said, "Ugh!" I guess it was her later revealed healing ability that meant a few minutes later she showed no sign of injury! Or, perhaps she was creating a scary illusion? Anyway... So much for realism!About the only good things I can say is the special effects were pretty well done and the acting and direction not so terrible. Real shame about the script!

TdSmth5 So supposedly the Vatican has tapes of all the manifestations of evil around the world. This story is then based on one of these tapes. Fortunately, unlike what the title promises, this isn't POV, although it does have the bare-bones style of POV. In fact the movie begins with two priests discussing some case. They watch a tape of a girl where suddenly out of her face another evil face emerges. One priest recommends they do something about this.Now we go back and meet the girl, Olivia. She's got a boyfriend, her dad is in the Army so he's never around. But for her birthday the boyfriend surprises her with a party and her dad is there too. While cutting the cake she cuts her finger badly and has to be taken to the hospital. On their way back, ravens attack the bus they're on. She starts drinking one water bottle after another and at night passes out. She's taken to the hospital again where she falls into a coma. Months later they decide to take her off life support and when they do she wakes up instead. That night she walks into the neonate ward and nearly drowns a baby. Cops show up, a raven shows up, and one cop slam two light bulbs into his eyes. Apparently that will kill you.All along since the first visit to the hospital the father has befriended a priest there. So he's always around when something happens and he recommends they take or to some psychiatric facility. There she doesn't contribute to her therapy and instead becomes clairvoyant and tells the attractive dr. of some sexual escapade she (the dr.) had. Then she gets an orderly to die. And one day, she mumbles stuff against the wall and in the room on the other side where all the patients are, mayhem ensues. They attack each other, commit suicide, and kill each other. That's when the Vatican priests decide to intervene and one of them travels to meet Olivia.He performs an exorcism. Well, actually he doesn't. An exorcism is meant to the get demon to leave the body. He wants the evil to manifest itself in the body. He's got other plans. But this one evil is very powerful. It's the evil promised in the Book of Revelations.The Vatican Tapes is yet another low budget exorcism movie that just like all the others is rather weak. We don't end up caring for Olivia and her family. For most of the movie the priests are just in the margins and don't do much. The exorcism/ceremony offers little new and pretty much follows the standard formula but without being scary. It's after the exorcism is over that things get interesting. What the movie proposes with Olivia's fate is quite daring. And it should be downright terrifying. But it just isn't.These exorcism movies are cheap and easy to do, it seems, that's why we're getting so many of them. If you've never seen one, then The Vatican Tapes could be interesting. The problem is that the ritual itself is central and everything that happens builds up to it. Any yet rarely is the ritual filmed in such a way as to convey the horror that it should represent. Unless filmmakers are able to come up with something new or genuinely frightening, they shouldn't bother.

Hellmant 'THE VATICAN TAPES': Two and a Half Stars (Out of Five) Another religious themed horror flick, dealing with exorcisms and demons. This one was directed by Mark Neveldine; who also co- directed such violent action movies as 'CRANK', 'CRANK: HIGH VOLTAGE', 'GAMER' and 'GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE' (all much better films than this). It was written by Chris Morgan (who also wrote the last five 'FAST & FURIOUS' flicks), Christopher Borrelli and Michael C. Martin. The movie stars Olivia Taylor Dudley, Michael Peña, Dougray Scott, John Patrick Amedori, Peter Andersson, Djimon Hounsou and Kathleen Robertson. It's a very mediocre film, and completely forgettable.Angela Holmes (Dudley) is a 27-year-old woman, who's struggling with getting her overbearing father (Scott) to accept her boyfriend (Amedori); who she loves and lives with. She's also recently began having severe trouble with violent accidents, and bizarre mood swings. We soon learn that Angela has been possessed, by a very powerful demon. It's up to a priest (Peña), and a veteran Vatican exorcist (Andersson), to stop her.The movie is full of cheap thrills, and laughable acting. The story and characters are almost nonexistent. There's definitely nothing original or creative here, but the film isn't dull; and it does have decent production values (and a $13 million budget). It's not entertaining enough to call 'so bad it's good' but at least it isn't boring. Horror fans might be slightly amused (very slightly).Watch our movie review show 'MOVIE TALK' at: https://youtu.be/41q3ZuWGdEE