Such a frustrating disappointment

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Admirable film.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The movie started out strong. Cinematography seemed pretty good. The production value seemed pretty high. Additionally the trailer looked great. That almost fooled me into believing that this was a quality movie.My gosh this movie sucks! It is another cop putting his job first and getting estranged from family cliché. It was such a waste of time watching this awful awful movie. Hey! Look at the bright side. I found out first hand that this movie is an overrated piece of rubbish.To make my sacrifice mean something, do not watch this movie. Avoid it by any means necessary. Spend your time on something else. This movie has nothing to offer you. It fails to be scary. It will make you yawn.

I know some people would probably strongly disagree with me, but I'm sorry, Scott Derrickson cannot write, nor direct a scary movie. His previous effort, 'Sinister' had me reluctant to start 'Deliver Us From Evil', but with nothing better on my plate, I figured 'what the hell', I believe in second chances after all. Unfortunately, the master of suspense-lacking and stupid scary movies delivered a similar turd in the same fashion as his first successful piece of mainstream, brain rotting, piece of trash-Sinister.I feel redundant saying this, but once again, with Deliver Us From Evil, we get a film 'inspired' by 'true' events. That's a short way of saying it's about a delusional cop and priest duo who become 'demon hunters', to root out the seed of Satan in the city of sin itself, New York City. Now, the main character, Sarchie, does exist in real life, and truly believes that he is a demon hunter. Is it just me, or is it starting to get really annoying how every time a paranoid or insane person speaks of fighting the paranormal, Hollywood craps out a movie? To be fair, perhaps I didn't go into this film with a very objective lens-I hated this directors previous piece of trash, and I also don't care much for police officers or priests. In addition, the idea of explaining the sin and atrocities that occur in New York City (where I was born and lived up until relatively recently) is the product of satanic influence is just...retarded.I imagine that the group of people that like this type of horror film, and also consider themselves 'horror buffs', are the same type of people that think Cradle of Filth is the pinnacle of extreme metal music. Ignorant out of choice, this 'herd' is satisfied with anything supposedly 'scary' that is handed to them, and therefor choose NOT to dig a little for the real horror gems out there, like 'Martyrs' .I watched this movie for free and I still feel cheated-don't waste your time. There are better things to do, like urinating on its cover.

Exceptional movie from start to finish. One of very few movies where from the very first scene of the movie is filled with thrill, suspense, and scenes that will keep you on the edge of your seat. No dull parts that are unnecessary to the movie or that are slow to get to the point Which is very impressive for the length of the film.. Highly recommend the movie, full on from start to finish and will keep you in the moment of the movie while leaving you immersed in the movie and guessing what is going to happen next or how everything discovered is linked or can relate to what has already happened. Well above average acting and cinematography. Rate this movie a 9 out of 10 due to how interested and on edge I was watching the movie.

The tagline 'based on a true story' is obviously worth a lot to a film's success if that film is willing to completely deceive its audience over that fact. As I was watching 'Deliver Us from Evil' I kept thinking this Ralph Sarchie guy must be a complete nutter who's found a "get-rich-quick" scheme in lying about events that happened to him on the force and now a film is even being made about it. Turns out I was wrong. Turns out the filmmakers are the ones who took liberties with the truth. There is a guy by that name who wrote a book about his stories on the force, but this story sure as hell wasn't one of them. I mean what is that? How desperate to attach that tagline to your movie are you that you would do that? This completely ruined what was an otherwise decently made film.It doesn't really have much effect in the scariness department. I think we as an audience are getting used to the genre a lot now and filmmakers are going to have to work really hard to create an atmosphere and get the audience buying in to what they're selling us. The mixture of cop scenes intertwined with the demon possession was what made it work for me. Joel McHale really surprised me with an impressively convincing performance. Eric Bana (who's never been my favourite admittedly) was even decent in the lead role and managed not to bore me to death as he usually does. Generally these demon movies are being made with a lower budget, so perhaps it was just the heightening of that which made the film come across as having more quality than your average film of the same genre. Proper actors can often go a long way. It still remains nothing overly memorable or that I would recommend to friends, and the issue with the tagline has left a very sour taste in my mouth. I can just imagine them sitting around in their marketing meeting say, "OK we have an average horror movie on our hands here, what can we do to give ticket sales a boost?" And then a lowly intern at the back of the room pipes up, "why not tell people it actually happened this time?" And they go with it. Disgraceful.