The two best things about 'The Rite' are Anthony Hopkins and the beautiful backdrop of Rome. Other than that this was a predictable, pretentious movie with the sort of storyline that has been done to death.
Hopkins stars as a powerful exorcist who guides a young seminary student through an exorcism course in Rome after the boy confesses to losing his faith (what a surprise). Both of them get more than they bargained for (no surprises there then!).
Hopkins is a superb actor but he really shouldn't have been in a film like this. He shouldn't be entering the world of rubbish American horror, but instead should stick to his charming English films that are so popular.
One last thing I will say however is that this is actually based on true events, as opposed to the fictional ones that you see on most horror posters now. Hopkins' character was real, and the story is pretty close as well (if you can believe everything that Wikipedia says). At least they didn't lie on that.
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