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Even the charismatic Michael Peña comes off as an ersatz version of himself. Angela’s father is a dick to her dreamy, party planning, motorcycle riding boyfriend, a guy whose biggest fault is being perfectly bland.
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It’s inexcusable that this film doesn’t provide any other character for the audience to root for once Angela is sidelined by her possession. Obviously the audience is meant to feel sympathetic for Angela, being that there is a demon all up in her, but, being that there is a demon all up in her, at a certain point (around the time she tries to drown a baby) she is no longer a sympathetic character. It’s difficult to discern how The Vatican Tapes is trying to connect with its audience. As is typical of the millennial generation, Angela isn’t camera shy, and after her penchant for speaking in ancient tongues, being in two places at one time and projecting images of freaking demons from her face, goes viral up in Vatican City, a team of the Vatican’s finest demon slayers are dispatched to make everything square. As the demon takes control of her mind and body, Angela becomes a walking homicide dispenser, leading her father ( Dougray Scott) and boyfriend ( John Patrick Amedori) to believe that she’s losing her mind. Regrettably for Angela (assuming she’s not a member of the KISS army), the Devil has marked her as his mortal vessel for the enslavement of mankind. Although it’s never explicitly stated in the movie, we get the idea that Angela is the type of solid contributor to society that knits, bakes apple pies and volunteers her time nursing injured puppies back to health at her local SPCA. That’s the level of genius powering this film. The Vatican Tapes is centered on a woman named - wait for it - Angela ( Olivia Taylor Dudley). Like most of The Exorcist’s unimaginative successors, The Vatican Tapes falls victim to repeating The Exorcist’s time-tested tropes, and offers little value to the genre save for some squandered potential in the film’s last several minutes (this review contains SPOILERS). Whereas Star Wars created a solid foundation for everything that came after it to build upon - ranging from blips on moviegoer’s radar like Wing Commander to box-office smashes like Guardians of The Galaxy - the films that trailed in The Exorcist’s bile-ridden wake have been confined by the iconic devices established back in 1973. Much like how Star Wars’ distinct signature still resonates through modern day cinematic space operas, Wiliam Friedkin’s 1973 classic horror film The Exorcist has also left an indelible mark on the demonic possession genre.
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The Vatican Tapes ( 2015 ) Film Review, a movie directed by Mark Neveldine, and starring Kathleen Roberston, Michael Peña, Djimon Hounsou, Dougray Scott, Alison Lohman, John Patrick Amedori, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Michael Paré, Tehmina Sunny, Bruno Gunn, Daniel Bernhardt, Cas Anvar, Noemi Gonzalez, Santana Dempsey and Peter Andersson.