The Exorcist: Believer | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

The outcome is a qualified success – a horror feature that tries to say something profound about good and evil, love and faith, but ultimately creeps around the edges of these big topics.

Believer is a poorly edited-together combination of ideas that had potential. The film starts out as a haunting mystery, but it slowly morphs into an empty and unnecessary sequel.

This occasionally jump-scary homage fails to break any new ground.

There are moments in this borderline incoherent mess of a movie in which fans may be convinced that its sole purpose is to try making the original follow-up, 1977’s legendarily godawful Exorcist II: The Heretic, look positively genius by comparison.

Congrats to the filmmaking team, I guess: they might have made some utter, contemptible trash, but at least it's not lazy trash.