Agnes

It started out really good and as I was thinking that it would be a great horror film everything changed when after some time it became a drama and a pretty boring drama with nothing to offer I was so excited for nothing and it left me with a lot of questions.

The first section of AGNES plays out like your standard exorcism flick, complete with a disgraced veteran priest, an eager rookie, and a couple of mismatched nuns, including one who is allegedly possessed. Then the film switches, without warning, to the future where Mary, friend of the possessed title character, has left the convent and is trying to find her way in the world among sleazy bosses and a muppet-looking stand up comic. Packaged as a horror film, AGNES is more of a serious drama on religious contemplation, with the exorcism section acting as a prologue, and hence I don't think too many horror fans will be happy with it. As a quirky drama it's fine, and the goofy Father Black is worthy of his own film, but as it is AGNES is a case of either false advertising, or perhaps was packaged as a horror film as the distributor had no idea how to label it. For nun/exorcism completists only.

At first I felt like they forgot to add an ending to the movie, as if they literally forgot to copy/paste the ending to the film itself, but I think it was intended to be open for interpretation. It had a nice little build-up, the story was decent, intriguing at times, but I feel that it left too many questions unanswered. This can be annoying for some, which is rather frustrating considering the potential this movie had. I don't mind having watched this film, but due to the way it reached its ending, I couldn't give it more than a 5.5-ish. Characters had so much more to give, acting was ok. I would watch a second part or a continuation of this if it happened, just to see the character development reach a decent level. Otherwise, cinematics - ok, no A24 level, the choice of sound also pretty good. Other than that, the Agnes/Mary story had so much more, sad to see not reaching its full potential. Good effort though.

I gave this 1 star only because I was not able to give it no stars. Started with some promise then simply fell off a cliff. Shallow and very poorly acted. Apparently I need to carry on insulting this movie until I've used at least 150 characters.

This movie is awful.. the acting,the story, just a waste of $7 and an hr and a half of my life. So forced and predictable and was kinda all over the place. Dont waste your time or money!