Another hard film to make, I'm a big fan of the original trilogy and found this just didn't seem to do things right. I think overall it was alright - but if you remake a film it needs to be better than the original not just a 6th-6-06 flimsy excuse to redo it. Some of the acting was ok (Damien and Bugenhagen etc), but the scenes and music just don't have the same ominous quality they had in the original. The zoo bit, church visit bit, the italian graveyard bit are all no where near as good.
But then the bits they copied directly from the original I thought I'd seen it all before so why bother.
Overall pretty disappointing, but it's hard to see how they could have improved it without just re-releasing the original (as they did with The Exorcist)
666 out of 1000
Not as good as The Omen (1976), better than burning in hell for all eternity.
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