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Review by Xibo | Date seen: August 11, 2000 |
Viewing Location: Newport | Grade: B+ |
Summary: Pretty decent satan-cult flick, if a bit overdone. | |
The basic premise of this movie, a girl being born under a holy star and possibly being the next Jesus, has been done-- several times. One wonders why yet another rendition is needed. But this movie has several good factors going for it:
Jimmy Smits was sharing top billing with Kim Bassinger, but his role was truly peripherial. He contributed nothing to the picture. His character was slightly interesting (ex-seminary student turned cop) but he was basically just re-hashing his NYPD Blue role as detective. In the end I was left wondering why the satanists were so easy to take down. Obviously the characters were intelligent enough to have better defenses, but I guess at that point the director realized the movie was failing and decided to quickly wrap things up. Overall, I liked it pretty well. I love gothic movies in New York City. |
"I should put quotes here."