 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
When you see a quote before the movie starts it is a good indication that it is very pertinent to the movie. So when I see scripture sited and I spend the remainder of the film trying to recollect whether or not it is accurate, that takes away from the movie. Lost Souls does just that. This film directed by Janusz Kaminski is just one inconsistency after another. Back to the scripture, in Leviticus they tell us one born of incest would become the antichrist Well, if that was true we would have seen the antichrist in the south for the last 250 years. We would have had the antichrist in the middle ages, the renaissance and throughout history. Take one look at the royal family and tell me inbreeding hasn't been happening for hundreds of years. So I have to wait to get home to look up that verse. At first I was willing to accept they took it out of context like most people do when trying to prove a point or something more plausible but all that book was saying was it is against My (Gods) laws to have sex with any family member. No mention of becoming the devil. Back to the inconsistencies, we have a former troubled youth, Maya Larkin played by Winona Ryder (from Girl, Interrupted), ok her trouble was she needed a priest to remove evil spirits from her. So now she is an expert. She lives in the church, she chain smokes and if you can believe it cracks the codes of a mathematical deranged professor. Winona is summoned by a deacon, and two priests to go to a nut house. Almost sounds like we are going to tell a joke. Well they are going to remove his demons. Everyone in the room except Winona becomes drooling idiots. One of the priests never recovers and the psycho is in a coma. The church steps in to tell Winona that they don't approve of her research. The drooling priest, the deacon and Winona have it in their heads that the antichrist is going to take shape in a person and now she knows who that person is. Yes she decoded the psycho's ranting on paper and discovered a man named Peter Kelson is the one. Gee I guess anyone using numbers to match up with letters can spell out an easy name like Peter. Coincidentally Peter played by Ben Chaplin (The Thin Red Line) is a prominent author being interviewed on television as she is decoding. Oh and nice touch, the transformation is supposed to take place on his 33rd birthday, in a couple of days. Wasn't this the age of Christ when he was crucified? The film was dark, the acting was acceptable but the story line, give me a break. If you are going to do a movie about the devil transforming into a man as least have a story. There were so many holes, miss information and just crap any grade school child could have done the screenplay. So I guess you can guess my rating of Lost Souls. Yep that would be a two and I like these types of films. Last updated: Thursday, March 20, 2008 02:49:42 AM |
