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For centuries, a secret order of priests has existed within the Church. A renegade priest, Father Alex Bernier (Heath Ledger), is sent to Rome to investigate the mysterious death of one of the order’s most revered members. Following a series of strangely similar killings, Bernier launches an investigation that forces him to confront unimaginable evil and the terrifying knowledge that there is a fate worse than death.
Special Features
- Audio commentary by writer, director and producer Brian Helgeland
- 7 deleted scenes with optional audio commentary
- Original theatrical trailer
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- Running Time: 98 minutes
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Horribly inane,
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This review is from: The Sin Eater [2003] [DVD] (DVD)
Whodda thunk sins had tentacles? Big CGi ones that leak out from your chest and wrap themselves around the nearest excommunicate with a bit of bread roll in his hand. They do in The Sin Eater aka The Order, which reunites Heath Ledger, Mark Addy and Shannyn Sossamon with their Knight's Tale writer-director Brian Helgeland to vastly diminished returns. There's a mildly interesting conceit behind this frequently laughable theological thriller, but it never makes it past the incredibly bad writing: every scene and every character seems to be nothing more than backstory and clumsy exposition - it's the kind of movie where the female lead's arrival will immediately be followed by a policeman reminding our hero that she shot him a couple of years ago ("It says here she tried to kill you at an - exercise class?" "She tried to kill me at an exorCISM."), while even total strangers have the ability to relate a character's life history and philosophy at first sight. Then it gets even sillier. Not so much the odd demon that gets casually vanquished en route - "What was that?" "Demonspawn in the guise of children. Nothing I can't handle." - nor even Peter Weller's hardboiled no-bull Cardinal, the Vatican's answer to Philip Marlowe with a streak of Hitler thrown in for good measure. No, it's the masked villain hanging people from crosses underneath a Rome nightclub that really sets this one on the road to Hell in the worst way. By comparison, the Sin Eater himself comes as a welcome breath of fresh air, albeit short-lived before we're back to the wildly overplayed conspiracy. Ledger seems to be basing his performance on Arthur Pewty from Monty Python's Flying Circus, and at times I almost expected Graham Chapman to appear in officer's uniform to insist "Stop it right now! This sketch has got far too silly!" But that would be far too convincing for this film. Small wonder Vincent Cassell jumped ship from the title role after only a few days' shooting.
11 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
I Would Like to Introduce You to 'Aesthetic Sensibility',
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This review is from: The Sin Eater [2003] [DVD] (DVD)
Aesthetic Sensibility means that people find pleasure in specific genres of film because of the things that are portrayed in them. For example, people watch 'The Thing' or 'The Exorcist' because they have an aesthetic sensibility for horror. Simple isn't it? So why do so many people give 1 and 2 star ratings to "The Sin Eater" and say that it is dull and boring? Because they don't have the aesthetic sensibility for it and are not constructively critical enough to be able to accept this. The Sin Eater is not everybody's cup of tea for sure, but the performances are far from wooden. They are perfect for the type of story that this is and the fact that most of the charcaters here are priests. The basic plot line involves a priest on the hunt for a 'sin eater' who has the keys to heaven and can decide at the point of death whether or not to relive people of their sins. Ok, so it's not for eveybody, it will be attractive to people that like gothic church mysteries or to explore the possibility of secretive religious sects. The settings are very good, the tone is consistent and mood-provoking and the revelations (although not extraordinarily explosive) come at exactly the right time and you feel yourself thinking: "How did I miss that?". If you think that you are saying that the script works, and it does work very well. This is not an action film and it has probably a minimal impact on a wide audience, but for what it is and the audience it aims at "The Sin Eater" is under-rated and deserves to be seen
8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Errr... What went wrong,
This review is from: The Sin Eater [2003] [DVD] (DVD)
Reading the synopsis of this film, i thought it was right up my street, but unfortunately the film did absolutely nothing for me. The acting was pretty poor, the plot bland, and the last third highly predictable.
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