The Rite - 2011

 Yikes.  I guessed this was about 20 years older than it was.  That is not a good sign, eh?

I've never cared too much for exorcism movies.  This broadly includes The Exorcist, I will even admit, which I feel like great music and great cinematography aside, is largely boring and not scary.  I don't find anything scary about devils or demons or satans or whatever depicted in movies, even including the demonic kid movies or whatever.  Cults and people as villains are cool, but not actual demons.

The Rite is about a mortician who decides to join the clergy, and is targeted to become a modern exorcist because of his background of being used to dark and scary stuff.  He is paired with Anthony Hopkins as a working exorcist, and they are sent to exorcise a pregnant woman and a young boy.  There's a lot of scenes of this, and basically not much happens except the younger main character stuggles to decide if he thinks exorcisms or even god are real.

Hopkins then himself becomes possessed by the devil, and it's up to our young protagonist to test his faith by clearing Hopkins of the demonic influence.  Again, I'm kinda like, I don't care,,,?  The dude finds Brazilian hottie Alice Braga and he's paired with her.  There are some tittilating teases to the audience with the hot pregnant woman, and Hopkins gets to play a villain again briefly.

There's not a whole lot to say about it other than if you like exorcism movies, here is another one for your consideration.  It goes straight down the line, and when it ended I wondered aloud, "did anything happen in that movie?"

I'll give it 1.5 stars for the acting and the basically "it made sense and was linear" aspect.