Angel Heart is an awful movie and for one to compare this to Psycho is an insult to a master director in Alfred Hitchcock. Psycho was shot in black and white film noir with a story line that people could follow and understand, even before the doctor analyzed Norman Bates, since the movie title was called Psycho. I am a fan of Mickey Rourke in the days of Rumble Fish and Rumble Fish was dark but you could follow it through to the end. But in Angel Heart, its a movie literally drenched in characters, story lines, blood, chickens, gratuitous sex and killings to such a degree where the viewer can't follow and understand. One moment Angel is having sex with a Voodoo Priestess and the next moment she's his daughter? Huh! Angel is hired to investigate a man who later in the movie turns out to be himself? Huh! Amnesia is not a criteria for a P.I. When the movie ended, I said to myself, Huh! I walked out of the theater totally confused not knowing what the conclusion was. Norman Bates was the Psycho with a split personality dominated by his mother. Johnny Angel or whatever his name was since he had so many aliases, was an investigator, investigating a missing person who happens to be himself who murdered people but had no memory of it, had sex with a woman who was his daughter .............................? To much to absorb. No conclusion. Take a Pass On It.
Review of Angel Heart
Angel Heart
(1987)
Angel Heart .......................................................Huh!
26 July 2013
Warning: Spoilers