Year:
2000
Studio:
Castle Rock Entertainment
Movie:
2/5
DVD:
2/5
Lost Souls is a
low-key thriller about a woman, Maya Larkin (Winona Ryder), who
believes that a man, Peter Kelson (Ben Chaplin) is destined to host
Satan on his 33rd birthday. It has a lot of Catholic religion yet is
not as interesting as, say, Stigmata
which showed a bit more of the church bureaucracy. It moves kind of
slowly and it lacks something, suspense or excitement.
At least the ending is nice in that Maya has to shoot Peter just after
Satan takes a hold of him. They're sitting in Peter's SUV, she has the
gun, it's 4:54 the time of Peter's birth and they're waiting to see
what happens. At first it seems like everything is fine. But then she
glances at the car clock, which flickers to 6:66. Shot of Peter as he
starts getting this irrepresible smile that he can't keep off his face
-- the smile that totally sells that he's now Satan. Then she shoot him
in the head.
Other than that though, it's a boring movie. The commentary is even
worse. Director Janusz Kaminski and cinematographer Mauro Fiore don't
have anything interesting to say. Kaminski goes on and on about how he
doesn't believe in any of this stuff and the evil-ness of prescreening
movies. There are also certain parts of the commentary when their
voices are blended in and out, purposely to create an otherworldy
feeling. You know, I don't need stylistic foofaraw in an audio
commentary. It's just annoying.
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There are some
deleted scenes. Actually half of them are variants of existing scenes,
to show different how the scene could have been edited differently. For
me, I found them boring since I don't want to see the same scenes over
and over with minor variations
What I liked: the ending scene. Cinematography is also pretty good,
delivering a convingly dark atmosphere without making it too commercial.
What I didn't like: everything else.
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