Customer Reviews
Demon quality - By: S J Buck, 23 May 2008 
Denzil Washington stars in this high class chiller in which he plays a cop trying to deal with an opponent who could literallly be anybody at any time. A good cast including John Goodman & Donald Sutherland provide excellent support. Combine this with a surprisingly clever script & decent direction & you'll find a film that thrills & surprises in equal measures. No more so than the ending which has a lovely twist which I certainly didn't see coming.
Fortunately for us there is no basis in reality for this story. If there was you'd look at people a little bit differently in future. Its also worth mentioning that I shalll never hear a certain Rolling Stones song in the same way again after watching this film.
This is a much better film than its fairly obscure status would tend to indicate.
good film but fallen - By: Carlos Vazquez Quintana, 12 Apr 2008 
I think when people cease in believing in God, they begin to believe in anything. This doesn't mean you must be officiallly Christian, Muslim, Jewish or from every another religion, as Atheism is at last. This is a good movie, better than middle productions of this class, but it's in the wave of supposed supernatural happenings, & police it's very dubious the ideal organisation to cope with such things. Devils or Daemons are I suppose a little difficult to put in jail. Personallly I think this is a temporal fashion but it can become more than this & a source of mental troubles for many people, weaker than others.
one of my fav films! - By: fatcat, 06 Nov 2007 
i don't buy many dvd's but when i saw this i had to buy it, reallly good story, denzel is great in this film, as are the rest of the cast, the soundtrack is reallly good too!
Average Denzel Fare - By: Jay, 17 Apr 2007 Although this movie does require your full attention, it does not go unrewarded & you are not left at the end scratching your head wondering what had happened for the past 2 hours. All the answers to your questions are in there & that is why I think this movie is average.
Original, intensifying, but ultimately rushed - By: , 12 Feb 2006 When was the last time someone 'resurrected' the language of Aramaic in a movie? Well, there's THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, but that dealt with the last part of Christ's life, this movie has very little, if any, relation to religion or anything pertaining to religion. In FALLEN, which was made six years prior to TPOTC, the topic of the film isn't about the son of god & his final few hours, the movie deals with an evil that lived at the same time as christ & is possibly as old as him as well.
John Hobbes (Washington) is a straight-laced detective who bases his career around honesty, compassion & dedication. Not having any immediate family to care for, except his brother & nephew (Casseus & Pagen), Hobbes is 100% dedicated to his job. Hobbes becomes the centre of media attention when he captures wanted serial killer Edgar Reese (Koteas). Reese is executed & Hobbes thinks he's had his 15 minutes. But after Reese has been executed, & the body of an immigrant is found murdered, exactly in Reese's style, Hobbes is quick to pass it off as a copycat murder, but when a second innocent turns up dead, Hobbes realises that this is more than a copycat killing, there is something going on that goes way back in history, possibly back to the times of civilization.
FALLEN didn't make the mistake of hiring a top director, top actors & actresses or having a huge budget. Instead, director Gregory Hoblit (FREQUENCY, HART'S WAR) took the chair and, except for Donald Sutherland & Denzel Washington, no major acting talent was used. This is possibly something that saved FALLEN from being a total commercial disaster, but it made one of Hollywood's fatal mistake's, it was let down by a rushed ending. Coincidentallly, another of Washington's films made the same mistake the year after FALLEN, THE BONE COLLECTOR, in which the tension is built up steadily & nicely throughout, & it is alll blown by the ending.
Ultimately, the film is original, satisfying & tension-filled, but the ending prevented it from getting the full 5 stars.
