On a dark, cold and rainy night, an evil spirit has taken over a young man in a small town in Italy. The priests have done whatever they could to drive the evil spirit away but there seems to be no viable outcome. Their heads having gone bald with all the scratches on their head decide to call the ‘ghostbuster’ in town. Who is this ‘ghostbuster’? Its Russell Crowe! On a vespa!

With his cold demeanour he walks in to the house and takes off his slick hat. The Pope’s Exorcist, Gabriele Amorth has arrived. He walks up to the evil spirit which has taken over the young mans body and he tricks the spirit into entering a pig’s body. Right when it does, he blows off the pig’s head. Girl boss and badass, two in one.

The Pope’s exorcist achieves on a lot of levels because of its unserious environment. The ever charismatic Russell Crowe is given room to play around and to bring Amorth to life. The film revolves around Amorth, Russell Crowe. There isn’t much to the plot to keep you hooked onto. Its Russell Crowe. His nonchalant attitude mixed in with a little bit of fun makes his character stand out. The other characters however do not have much to ‘add’ to the film, but they do ‘add’ to Crowe’s performance.

The other aspects of the film, aren’t much of a conversation starter. The direction, the cinematography, the action, the cgi, etc, etc, are all great but nothing that’s going to make your jaw drop in amazement. Oh wait, Russell Crowe though.

The film has many cringe worthy moments but, bear with me, it only makes you love the film even more. The one scene where the devil goes “Bring me the priest!”, and when father Esquibel walks in, he yells, “Not you b****!!”, really brings out the films true essence.

The Popes Exorcist, isn’t ‘cinema’ in terms of your general sense. It’s an entertaining flick of an action/comedy movie which is sure to bring you a bunch of laughs and plenty of “That’s so cool!”, moments.