Jerry
Bruckheimer Film
Directed by:
Scott Derrickson
Starring by:
Eric Bana, Edgar Ramirez, Sean Harris, Olivia Munn
Not many horror film involving police duty, most of all become crime
fighting stories or action genres but in Deliver Us From Evil, Sergeant Ralph
Sarchie was dealing with a prime crime, the devil himself to be fought. I like
the way Priest Mendoza said about crime fighting like murder, burglary,
domestic violence, riots and so on that humans do were only secondary layer of
crime in the world. There’s a prime crime that had to dealing with and that was
spiritual fighting.
Sarchie and Butler facing a serial weird situation during their
patrols, a marine name Jimmy who beating up his wife, a mother name Jane who
throw her baby into lion’s cage sewer, and mysterious painter who almost killed
Sarchie with a lion at the zoo. His radar, that was Butler said to him, lead
Sarchie that the numbers of situation turns out to be unusual case from other
cases their handles.
His investigation found out that a group of marines that send to Iraq
change the three of them, Mick Santino, Jimmy Tratner, and Buttler into some
doors for Evil to pass to earth. From that, he also meet Jesuit Priest name
Mendoza who’s dealing with spiritual warfare and told him about his gift, that
Sarchie’s radar was a special abilities to sense supernatural world and make
him target for the demons.
The fact that this movie inspired by true story of NYPD Sergeant made
me think that the creep was truly happening out there. I think you’ll be
surprised like me when I see the scene on Santino’s place, where a cat corpse
was crucified at the cross at the wall. My goodness, I don’t know if you can
stand scenery like that, especially when you saw the inside parts of the
carcass had been removed.
The story itself was not so horrified, it full with sudden appearance
and big bang, more like action horror to me but every part was placed into
exorcism at the end of the story. I don’t know the connection between The Doors
and the graffiti cave on Iraq, I don’t know why evil targeting Sarchie just
because he had supernatural ability, I don’t why the evil had to wait until
other members of Santino came to New York to kill them but one thing that
Mendoza said to Sarchie that evil just attacked in random, you can’t see or
know his pattern…well, I think I just got to deal with that…and enjoy the
exorcist battles that I just know had five steps to deal with.
And I do like every single scene, despite the confusing story,
especially the exorcist battle that full with video effect. But there’s
continuity mistaken by the director, when Sarchie taking down Jimmy Tratner,
after the marine beating up his wife, Jimmy slashed him on the arms that made
Sarchie suffered deep gash and he state that it needs stitches, it was not
showing on the next scene when Sarchie and Butler goes to the zoo. The scar was
there no more.
