In each case, parents abuse their children while a mysterious string-bean of a man ( Sean Harris) hovers nearby, painting over ominously legible graffiti written entirely in Latin. Sarchie's supernatural radar leads him and wise-ass partner Butler ( Joel McHale) to a string of related domestic abuse cases. For example, Eric Bana's Sergeant Ralph Sarchie, a haunted member of the New York Police Department, simply knows when bad things are going on around him because he has an intuitive "radar"-like sixth sense. Just as the job of 6-year-old daughters is to be threatened by the story's archvillain.Many of "Deliver Us From Evil"s creative shortcomings result from Derrickson and Boardman's lazy articulation of their film's interest in spiritual doubt and penance. Of course, the role of skeptics in movies like this is to be brutally converted to a magical worldview. And not just about how he neglects his wife, Jen (Olivia Munn), and 6-year-old daughter, Christina (Lulu Wilson). He's also, unsurprisingly, wracked with Catholic guilt. The cop is a lapsed Catholic who gave up on God when he was 12, although he does believe in the power of his internal "radar" to locate the most interesting cases. Wisely, director and co-scripter Scott Derrickson made the on-screen Sarchie (stolidly intense Eric Bana) a skeptic. Ralph Sarchie, who reportedly came to believe that some of the criminals he faced were literally possessed. The movie is derived from a book of the same name by former NYPD Sgt. But then this slow-witted occult thriller takes everything literally, from the Catholic rite of exorcism to Jim Morrison's shamanic posturing. Deliver Us From Evil takes that idea all too literally. Based on the accounts given by a former NYPD sergeant, Deliver Us From Evil follows Ralph Sarchie, a New York police officer played by Eric Bana, as he investigates unexplainable crimes.įor decades, cop dramas have depicted the South Bronx as the devil's playground.
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