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The movie follows a young Father Merrin facing true evil for the first time in Africa in the wake of World War II. This is the tale of Father Merrin's initial battle with Pazuzu and the rediscovery of his faith.
Reams of tedious exposition finally give way to a random jumble of horror movie clichés, rising to a shrill pitch of hysteria that is never remotely frightening.
As shocking as an Dokken album cover and, finally, as pious as The Passion of the Christ.
August 24, 2004
Toronto Star
Never feels like anything other than generic, brain-dead, Dolby-jolt, multiplex hackwork -- I kept expecting Skarsgard's habitually catacomb-prowling Merrin to bump flashlights with Lara Croft.
The serious Catholic themes that made the original film genuinely disturbing have been flattened out into a cartoonish backstory pitting Merrin against Nazi storm troopers.