The Exorcism Review: Possession Without Purpose

Just last year, we saw the release of The Pope's Exorcist, and now, less than one year later, we've got Russell Crowe returning to the genre with a similar title. However, outside of being about possession and starring Russell Crowe, these films could not be more different. Announced 5 years ago, and even filmed prior to Pope's Exorcist, The Exorcism was hit with delay after delay. That's not often a great sign concerning a movie's quality but the June release seemed to show a little more faith in the product than expected. Unfortunately, the film fails to deliver anything outside of some decent performances.
Written by Tyler Nichols
Narrated by Tyler Nichols
Edited by Tyler Nichols
Produced by John Fallon
Executive Producer: Berge Garabedian
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[@Kthomasritchie]

There's only one true exorcist movie - Repossessed (1990)

[@kingbookaworld3534]

My man!

[@KadeemG61]

even though it’s a parody of The Exorcist but a Mel Brooks classic spoof movie.

[@lordpaul0420]

😂👏

[@wstine79]

I remember working on this movie in Wilmington when it was originally titled "The Georgetown Project." It was awesome to work on, just wished it looked better on screen.

[@Ndrake89]

Thank you for being honest with your review. It can't be easy when you're also interviewing the people who made it.

[@anthonystrocks247]

So awesome to see David Hyde Pierce! Such an ICON!

[@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control]

Well that's unfortunate because I really liked Pope's Exorcist for just being goofy and having fun with itself.

[@benmcfee]

Possession without purpose is definitely underwhelming, but at least it isn't "...with intent to distribute".

[@bozalini]

I'm a Chloe Bailey fan. Didn't know she was in the movie. I want to see this now despite bad review.

[@FourthStreetSaint]

I just watched it. She’s barely in it, the movie is mainly Russell Crowe and his daughter

[@bozalini]

@@FourthStreetSaint Was it good?

[@FourthStreetSaint]

@@bozalini not really. I give it a 4/10

[@bozalini]

@@FourthStreetSaint That sucks

[@jaded5957]

I always feel happy when I click on a video and hear this guy's voice, knowing that it's gonna be a good review.

[@Dr_1212]

It was Ok 👍

[@sharkanenoa5928]

There was literally a Russel Crowe Excorcist movie just last year

[@anubusx]

I thought the two films were connected.

[@anonymoususer855]

I'm trying to understand Russell Crowe's obsession with exorcism films

[@anubusx]

@@anonymoususer855 Big pay cheques.

[@kishenkoolskills90]

Because he doesn't get any big movies anymore, so he can do Horror movies now

[@terriamonay2052]

R crow is the man. Anything he does is awesome!

[@thecunninlynguist]

Seeing it tonight. Hope it'd good. Interesting premise...and I liked Crowe in last year's pope exorcist. This is like the making of movie or prequel 😂

[@kishenkoolskills90]

It's like the making of The Exorcist

[@edchanful]

idk why every possession need to bend the victim body???? its just cringe now

[@KadeemG61]

i did saw the movie via Regal Mystery Movie and yeah, it was pretty bad. I love me some Russell Crowe, but he was wasted as a possessed zombie just halfway through the movie and i walked out of the movie. I’d prefer a sequel to The Pope’s Exorcist, but we got this “The Exorcism” much worse than The Exorcist: Believer.

[@DanielKeyser-nm2rp]

Danm now you can really tell Chloe Bailey is really related to Charlemagne with that cranium she has. Look up 1:56 time in the video swear on everything you won’t unsee it

[@Tauraun7]

The Exorcist 3 is underrated!!!

[@Stereo_type1982]

This movie is absolutely terrible. There's no payoff to anything, there's 4 or 5 concurrent plotlines, none of which go anywhere and picking 1 to focus on would've been way more interesting. This movie just dragged and dragged from cliche to cliche. Crowe semed like his character was better directed by Goldberg's character than the actual director! The ending was completely tacked on as though they had no clue what to do and the whole thing was totally anticlimactic. Props to the interviewer for managing to avoid discussing how shite the film was with the actors and not blowing smoke up their asses about it being good. Listening to Goldberg sounds like he wasn't happy with it either. Spoilers!!! Nothing in this film makes any sense. But one thing in particular is just absolute nonsense!!! Crowe is possessed on set and no one does anything? No one phones an ambulance ? No one calls the cops? They just leave him on set and everyone else stays on set practicing lines and checking their make up? What?? Someone is killed on set and again, no police presence, the set just remains accessible? This whole sequence was absolute nonsensical shite. Also they seem to set up as if the priest is "the priest" who Crowe's character "met" as a child but don't pay it off? What even happened at the end? Did they finish the movie? Was Crowe not investigated for murdering 2 people? Absolute shite.

[@orion834]

These interviews alone turned me off from ever seeing this movie 🤮

[@jonathanmartin3767]

This wasnt a half bad movie. It was a fun watch, good with a bucket of popcorn

[@masterseal0418]

I just want exorcism movies to die off, cuz it's an already dead genre. Why wouldn't mythology be adapted instead? Hinduism sounds good. Why do we need yet another exorcism movie? Just end it entirely! We want something new rather than 'Russel Crowe plays a priest and performs an exorcism on some kid or himself'. Modern horror shouldn't be the same shit we experienced before, damn it!

[@JasonWood.]

Tyler is so hot 🔥🔥🔥

[@basedlord88]

The Popes Exorcist was 1000000x better than this garbage and neither are very good movies. It was one of the worst films I’ve ever seen, multiple groups of people got up and left in the theater and never came back

[@michaeljunior5297]

Couldn't agree more

[@Hestorzg]

Movie is realy bad like realy bad.

[@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf]

I smell shite

[@mettlex2621]

The Pope's Exorcist was crap. I actually liked this movie.