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First tagged "thrillers" by Mark W. Stevenson "mwshovel"
Full Specification tags: mystery, movie, thriller
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #4027 in Movie
- Released on: 2008-05-01
- Rating: R (Restricted)
- Running time: 125 minutes
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44 of 49 people found a following examination helpful.
Fallen is one of a best horror/thrillers of a decade
By Eric
Fallen is underrated, as we felt it wasn't nowhere nearby as bad as some critics pronounced it to be. It's a unequivocally engaging brew of The Exorcist and The Silence of a Lambs and Seven. The outcome is one of a best thrillers of a decade. It's not utterly adult there with Lambs or Seven yet it's as good as Arlington Road and is significantly higher to The Bone Collector and Kiss a Girls.
The tract is about Detective John Hobbes (Denzel Washington), who has usually prisoner sequence torpedo Edgar Reese (Elias Koteas). Before Reese is executed, he speaks to Hobbes in a bizarre denunciation and tells him a riddle, seeking him since there's a space between Lyons and Spakowsky. Hobbes doesn't consider many of this and watches silently as Reese is executed in a gas chamber.
The subsequent day, another murder occurs, and Hobbes and his partner Jonesy (John Goodman) check it out. To his shock, Hobbes finds a same riddle Reese told him scrawled on a wall of a victim's apartment. Unraveling a idea and with a assistance of an intelligent lady named Gretta Milano (Embeth Davidtz), he discovers that a demon called Azazel had indifferent a physique of Reese and can switch from one tellurian horde another with a elementary touch.
The grounds itself is chilling, nonetheless we was a bit wavering to watch this film. The critics' reviews were churned yet all of them seemed to determine that a film was a bit delayed moving. The law is, Fallen is a bit delayed for a initial forty or so minutes, yet a final eighty mins are full of intriguing ideas that are good explored along with copiousness of intensely suspenseful scenes, generally a ending, which, by a way, has a good twist.
Regarding a suspenseful moments of a film, they can truly be described as corner of your seat. One of a many harrowing sequences in this film is an strange follow stage that involves a domino effect, where a demon chases after Davidtz by flitting from one tellurian horde to another. There's also a chilling scenes where Washington has to try and keep adult with who Azazel has usually possessed.
Fallen's biggest aspect, notwithstanding all those truly stirring and unequivocally suspenseful scenes, is a ending. It initial involves a unequivocally crafty devise being unfolded by one of a characters and ends with a good and indeterminate tract twist. This is truly one of a many indeterminate endings we have seen. It competence not have as many of a startle energy as a irritable (and twisty) climaxes of Seven and Arlington Road (or for that matter, The Sixth Sense), yet it's usually as startling if not more.
The performances in this film are solid. Denzel Washington is glorious as a investigator who is many some-more crafty than Azazel thinks. John Goodman is his common plain self as Hobbes' partner, and he excels in this role, proof he has a lot of operation ever given his uncover Roseanne was cancelled. Embeth Davidtz's opening is glorious yet her impression is rather underwritten. The genuine stage stealer, though, is Elias Koteas. Though he's in a film for 5 mins his Edgar Reese impression is frightful and indeed a bit fun to watch. Most of a characters are precocious and this helps us caring for Hobbes and his family.
The book by Nicholas Kazan is well-written and a turn in a finish creates it improved to conclude and Gregory Hoblit's use of a dark, irritable atmosphere and mood is certainly effective.
31 of 35 people found a following examination helpful.
Fallen - A classical in a psychological thriller genre!
By K. Wyatt
Simply put, "Fallen" is a pristine classical in a psychological thriller genre! Very few films in this genre that try such standing indeed ever grasp as successfully as this film does. From a unequivocally commencement of this film to a finish it is an intense, book and impression driven china shade masterpiece. One of a many engaging aspects of this film is that it can be watched over and over again, given time in between viewings, and one can collect adult opposite things each time, creation it that many better.
Performance wise, Denzel Washington delivers one of his many absolute and noted performances in this glorious film. Of course, over a years he's proven himself to be one of Hollywood's glorious in that unequivocally few films of his are reduction than spectacular. This sold purpose for him roughly engenders a aura that it was privately created with him in mind as a lead. John Goodman's opening is right on standard with his common character of acting, creation a film that many better. Donald Sutherland's performances over a years have been, to me, rather uneven with his opening in this film being one of his improved ones. The usually other film that I've watched in that Embeth Davidtz, and impossibly pleasing actress, has starred in was "Schindler's List." Her opening in "Fallen" is intensely memorable, withdrawal one to a end that they should check out her other films. Of special note is saying a pre "Sopranos" opening by James Gandolfini.
It's official, I'm a fan of Director Gregory Hoblit's films as he's not usually skilfully destined this glorious film yet other beguiling films such as "Frequency" and "Hart's War." Granted, he benefited severely from a higher book of "Fallen," it's a character in that he portrayed this film that creates it such a powerful, corner of your chair film.
The Premise:
Denzel Washington plays carnage investigator John Hobbes. Shortly after examination a execution of Edgar Reese (Elias Koteas), many of a same things that were function to Detective Hobbes before to capturing Reese start function again yet wait a minute, it was Reese that was doing these things before yet that's unfit since he was executed.
What follows from there is one of a many heated and absolute psychological thriller to ever beauty a china shade as investigator Hobbes starts to learn usually accurately who or what he's traffic with...
The usually loyal warn in this film is that it didn't unequivocally benefit strenuous vicious support when it was in a theaters. we rarely suggest this film to any and all who are fans of films in this genre as it can usually be described as tops in a genre. {ssintrepid}
Special Features:
-Feature Length Audio Commentary by Director Gregory Hoblit, Screenwriter Nicholas Kazan and Producer Charles Roven
-Production Notes
-Cast & Crew bios
-Theatrical Trailer
10 of 10 people found a following examination helpful.
Very, Very Creepy
By Craig Connell
This gets good outlines simply since it is such an interesting, involving story that hooks we right divided and each time we watch it and doesn't overcome we with assault and gore.
Denzel Washington is appealing as always as a good man and John Goodman is surprisingly low-key for many of a movie. All a characters are unequivocally engaging and a special effects are creepy. The story is pristine "Hollywood theology" meant also means a characters - embody a heroes - in here have no idea about God or a purpose of life.
The DVD provides glorious entertainment. The visuals are decent on this front and sound-effects are chilling in spots. As a demon sees by a eyes of people and passes by with these "whoosh" sounds, it's unequivocally effective. As mentioned, a film doesn't need a lot of assault to attain with it's horror-type tale.
One note about a final scene. if we get confused, we aren't alone. Maybe I'm not too splendid since it took me a integrate of viewings to see it all in perspective.
