Truly, a brilliant movie. Add the charisma of Brosnan and Neeson, which alone could have carried a long way the movie, to a powerful script, great acting, loads of action and a beautifully shot picture and I think we have the ingredients for a movie you will not forget soon. At least I'm not going to. The most interesting thing about it in the first half, from my point of view, besides the quickly unfolding action, is the fact that even though we are introduced to a conflict from the very beginning there is no clue who is the good and who is the bad guy so you really don't know who to root for. In fact this is so masterfully concealed that until the point you find out you kind of start caring for both of them. And even after you find out you can't draw the line and decide who should die and who should survive. In the second part as the tension goes to the limit the characters get pushed to the limits too, both physical and psychical. Some may say that here it starts to grow far from the reality but if we focus on the inner experience of someone who would actually "be" in those extreme conditions, I think the reality may start to fade and mix with something "different". This culminates with the encounter with the devil in the desert, who sets them up with no alternative but to kill each other. Yet the forecast of the ending beautifully eludes him... In three words: I loved it
Review of Seraphim Falls
