Angel Heart (1987)

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Sick Product of a Sick System

Great Film overall

The cinematography, the pictures, the sites, the atmosphere - very good. The story - good enough to make something memorable out of it. But...The acting and directing is so poor. Mickey Rourke is such a "nothing". He is maybe handsome but you don't buy it in the movie. Cool ? Clever ? Emotional ? No, just nothing, no depth, no character, just a bum walking around. And that is the last thing such a story should do.The directing - every time there is action I asked myself "why are they running around ?" You just don't buy it, like the whole story in total. And everything looks so unconnected. No depth creation for the main character is the most serious lack of the movie.Can't keep wondering what David Fincher could have made out of it.

Last night I watched the film Frailty and I really liked it. I gave the film rating 10! So I wanted to watch something similar and Angel Heart was suggested in many sites. And so I just finished the film and ... It is far far from Frailty. OK, it is some kind of a mystery and horror and psichological thriller but this one was really slow paced, boring at times and overall I am not really thrilled about it.The highlight of the film for me is Mickey Rourke acting as well as Lisa Bonet's ( though I must say I did not recognized her in that satanistic/ritual dancing scene. I thought it was a completely different girl so was rally surprised when they mention in the film it was her!). I liked some of the scenes for their moody and surrealistic setting ( like that Cony Island beach scene and sex scene with blood/rain). From the first moment he was introduced, I knew he was a devil ( De Niro). It was kinda obvious but his role/acting was not particularly memorable to me.The first scene and that dead body... Is that the man /young soldier? Or just a random murdered person?All in all, this film is somewhere in the middle. My rating is five which means it is just interesting as to not make me stop watching it ( though I was giving a thought to).

Movie is created in late 80's they showed time of 50's and I watched in 2016 but director have done very good job with it. Still those movies which are created now and showing the old time are very similar to this movie. They used two great actors Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro but story more revolve around mickey. One thing they are showing is very irritating that is Robert's nails again and again they are showing it except that everything is good. So, movie starts with mickey and he is private detective, Robert is his client and gave him the work to find the missing person. Than mickey started his search and try contact everyone who knows him and he found out that guy is related to dark magic also. Who so he contacted is getting killed than he got scared to much. After sometime he found out that his client is Lucifer the demon and he is here to take him down to hell and that guy whom he is searching was himself. He lost his memory 12 year ago living under some other name and he was killing everyone by instruction of the demon. This movie is full of suspense and movie is little slow. If you are fan of mickey you will like this movie. Robert de niro has very less role.

I saw this movie when it came out, it blew me away. I just saw it again recently, some 29 years later...it still holds up pretty good.The photography of Michael Seresin is just superb, moody, dark, appropriate.The realism of the sets, costumes and props brings authenticity through out the whole picture.Trevor Jone's score brings an ethereal feel through out the whole show.A tour de force by Alan Parker.Mickey Rourke at his best. Tough and vulnerable at the same time, Mickey balances his character's emotions beautifully.A Robert De Niro, like you've never seen him before.Last but not least, the stunning Lisa Bonnet in the role which got here kicked out of "The Cosby Show" -- ironic ain't it?