This film represents what I have read about exorcisms, and although I am a thorough atheist, it definitely is terrifying if you can empathise with the characters in the books and then too in this film.
The acting from Hopkins is going to be solid; that is what made me watch the film in the first place. However, the cinematography could have done with some tweaking.
Firstly, there were things that could be understood by extrapolating from clues, that if left to the viewer would have enabled an even more empathetic experience, therefore all the more terrifying. Instead, certain instances where it was very easy to understand what was going on, there was overemphasis from the film, and certain things that were important to the plot were underdeveloped and in a few instances were skipped over.
Aside from that, I think it was a solid movie.
I'd say to give it a whirl if you are open to this type of supernatural horror.
