DELIVER US FROM EVIL

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.

And I think there’s mismatch between Catholic Pastor and Jesuit Priest. Mendoza said he was Jesuit Priest but most of what he do, like sin confessing and cast out demons using Latin and holly water, showing that he was doing what Catholic Pastor do on their exorcism. Jesuit priest did not used Latin, they used daily language and not throwing holly water like that. But some words that taken by Mendoza about ‘defrocked’ if he behave similarly, when he confessed his sin after make sex with his first patient, it was the phrase that used by Christian priest.