The Rite is based on Matt Baglio's book, The Making of a Modern Day Exorcist
, a true accounting of his time in an exorcism seminar held by the Vatican. Anthony Hopkins looks like he's woken up from the stupor he was during The Wolfman
, as he's starring as an older, somewhat peculiar priest who begins teaching the younger, skeptical student about the dark side of his faith. I've had my fill of these exorcism flicks. They always feature the guy who's grown disillusioned and needs some sort of catalyzing event to snap him back. Seen it before, in particular in the very good The Last Exorcism earlier this year. So I'm not all that excited by this one, even with a great supporting cast feature Toby Jones(The Mist
), Alice Braga(Predators
) and Ciaran Hinds(Race to Witch Mountain
).The Rite is set to hit theaters on January 28th, 2011.
