| Kim Basinger |
| Jimmy Smits |
| Rufus Sewell |
| Ian Holm |
| Angela Bettis |
| Christina Ricci |
Clifford Green
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Bless Everyone for Watching It
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| Directed By: | Chuck Russell | ||||||
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| Written By: | Tom Rickman Clifford Green Ellen Green |
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| Rated | R for Violence, profanity, drug content | ||||||
| Running Time | 1:47 | ||||||
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| Seen At | UA Riverview Philadelphia | ||||||
From the beginning of time
there's always been two supernatural forces fighting to win our soul. The good
is Jesus, who's the true meaning of life and love. His enemy is Satan, who
brings hatred and evilness to the world. The old saying goes: good always
defeated evil but evil never stops. As in this movie, called Bless The Child.
Omen's and concepts of good vs. evil have no place in Maggie O'Connor's (Kim
Basinger) well-ordered, practical universe. Her life revolves around her job as
a nurse at a busy New York hospital -- that is, until her wayward kid sister,
Jenna (Angela Bettis), shows up on her doorstep one rainy Christmas Eve and
saddles Maggie with an autistic newborn child named Cody (Holliston Coleman).
Cody quickly touches Maggie's heart and becomes the daughter she has always
longed for. But six years later, Jenna suddenly re-enters her life and, with her
mysterious new husband, Eric Stark (Rufus Sewell), abducts Cody. Despite the
fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, FBI agent John Travis (Jimmy
Smits), an expert in ritual homicide and occult-related crime, takes up her
cause when he realizes that Cody shares the same birth date as several other
recently missing children.
The little girl, it soon becomes clear, is more than simply "special."
She manifests extraordinary powers that the forces of evil have waited centuries
to control, and her abduction sparks a clash between the soldiers of good and
evil that can only be resolved, in the end, by the strength of one small child
and the love she inspires in those she touches.
If I see one more movie about the devil I think I am going to become one. Enough
is enough. The story was so lame and stupid, you're forced to think why it was
made. While you are watching this film you may think about some others films,
like Poltergeist, The Green Mile, and End of Days.
The director should ask himself why he made this film. When I saw this film,
people were actually laughing out side of the theater. When you see that in a
horror film you know something is wrong.
The acting was not too bad by Kim Basinger. It was better than that boring
sleeping movie called I Dreamed Of Africa. Here she had movie of a
feeling part as she played the aunt of mankind's last hope. Jimmy Smits was also
not too bad. He was better in Price of Glory. It didn't do good at the
box office but was good nonetheless. One of the disappointments of the film was
Christina Ricci's screen time. She had almost none. Just like Tyra Banks did in Coyote
Ugly. She had only 3 screens and then she was gone.
You cannot expect too much from the month of August. It's the month that bad
films come out. And trust me we had saw some already, Bless The Child and
Coyote Ugly. Overall, if you like this film you should ask yourself why.
One thing is for certain. We all should be blessed by a priest for watching Bless
The Child.
© 2000 Paul Perkins