Blessed (2004)

Pretty Good

Must See Movie...

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

the good intentions are basic virtue of this strange film. strange not for idea but for its use. and for the not inspired manner to be more than poor exercise to remember a classic. the cast is OK and this is far to be a virtue. because the presence of Heather Graham and James Purefoy as a sweet couple, Fionnula Flanagan in skin of an interesting character and, the sad piece - Andy Serkis as pearl before swine in a movie who is only mixture between different ingredients, with large slices of Rosemary Baby and a lot of clichés. it is difficult to comment a film who is only exercise for a director ambition. or, only, a not inspired homage to Polansky and horror universe.

I was flipping past a channel that had this on the other day so I decided to TiVO it. I always enjoy a silly horror movie. Unfortunately this movie isn't just silly it's slooooow and stupid and boring. I'm not sure why they had to shoot it in a foreign country and dub a lot of the English in - it's not hard to tell it is not an American made film and this added to the crappy cinematography make what might have been a moderately bad movie in to a very unwatchable piece of trash. What a shame to see Andy Serkis's talent wasted.It isn't creepy, it isn't suspenseful, it isn't entertaining. Rosemary's Baby is a better alternative if you like this kind of film.

This film is either disgusting and depressing or absolutely hilarious. I get the feeling that the director was going for the former, trying to scare women away from fertility clinics. This kind of anti-intellectual, anti-science nonsense is for people terrified of God and the devil. For most people, this is an easy film never to see.Not only that, but the movie is stupid to boot. A fertility clinic in the same building as a cloning facility? Yeah, that's believable. Want to see a pregnant prosthesis so fake looking you'd think Heather Graham made it herself? Well, get yourself some popcorn then. Finally, the mean-spirited non-ending shows contempt for an audience I haven't seen the likes of since Speed 2.

**SPOILERS** Utterly ridicules re-make of "Rosemary's Baby" that should have been apply titled "Samantha's Babies" that's so convoluted that the film seems to completely fall apart in the last twenty or so minutes. It's not until I realized by reading the trivia part of the film on the IMDb that it's star David Hammings, playing the part of big shot book publisher and all around international power broker Earl Sidny, died during production that it dawned on me that the movie makers realized that had a king size turkey on their hands. They must have did everything possible to terminate it even at the cost of an understandable no matter how clumsy conclusion. Hemmings is so bloated and his voice, which I suspect was dubbed in, so low and raspy that he's both unrecognizable and hard to understand in the few scenes, before he suddenly passed away, that he's in.Having trouble conceiving the Howard's Samantha & Carig, Heather Graham & James Purefoy,go to this clinic in the little town of Westview that's been recommended to them where it's said that miracles are preformed. The clinic is noted for giving women, who are totally barren like Samantha, the ability to give birth to healthy and beautiful babies. Being artificially inseminated with her husbands sperm Samantha quickly get's pregnant and to both her and her husbands Craigs happy surprise she finds out from her doctor at the clinic Dr. Leeds,Debora Weston,that she's expecting twins.Craig a struggling writer who earlier in the film was introduced to book publisher Earl Sidney at a party in New York City is suddenly in demand to get his book published with Earl Sidney offering him $100,000.00 as a first down payment. It becomes obvious to anyone who saw read or knows about the film or book "Rosemary's Baby" that Craig had made some kind of demonic deal with Earl. We later learn that Earl is connected to this church called "The New Light of Dawn" that in effect is a secret Sanatic Order. The church is also being involved with the reproduction clinic that Samantha is being treated at. You know where the movie is going when it then takes a sudden U-turn and we're introduced to this really creepy looking guy that for some strange reason Samantha, who at the time didn't know that he's a priest, takes a strong liking to a Father Carlo, Andy Senkis. Carlo shocks Samantha in telling her that she's carrying the spawn of Satan and that only he with some liquid concoction, that looks like a fizzed out glass of Mountain Dew, can save her. Samantha who seems like she's going through with Carlo's unusual plan suddenly, at his pad or apartment, takes the liquid that she's supposed to drink and splashes it in his face! where it reacts like it was acid burning a bloody scare onto it!Samantha trying to get away from the crazed Carlo is then chased by him, in a car, all through the reproduction clinic with Carlo mindlessly busting through one operation room to another until he crashes in Dr. Leeds' office! In what seemed to be a prediction of things to come. As the gasoline in the car is spilling all over him Carlo tells the befuddled doctor that "He who walks with Satan shall burn in Hell" and then sets himself on fire with a lighter.The ending is so confusing, which like I feel is due to David Hemmings sudden death, that it makes what you saw up to it, as bad as that was, almost entertaining. We get to see the two twin girls born to Samantha grown up as preschool toddlers. The twins have this weird and spaced out look on their faces and at the same time doing what they do best in being blood-relatives to the Devil or Satan: Creating hell on earth for anyone that they come in contact with.