By Geno McGahee
FALLEN has just been released On Digital, On Demand and DVD from Lionsgate and deals with a priest that needs to get away from the world after a succession of exorcisms, some successful and some not. He is haunted by it all as he holds up in a cabin with his daughter and comes face to face with an unexpected evil.
The movie is very slow-going but there are some good things that can’t be overlooked. The cabin fever approach brings a tension to the film. The film seems to bring more style than substance when it comes to the approach, which hurts it. The film borders on pretentious at times, but I enjoyed some of the chaos that was happening all around this cabin and Father Abraham’s responses.
The filmmaker seems to throw a lot of things at the wall, hoping that something would stick rather than trying to find elements that made sense. The aliens in the woods and the other killers didn’t work but were cool visuals at times.
I can’t really recommend FALLEN because it is just too scattered. I can see what they were trying to do but it just didn’t come together as it could have.
