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"Deliver Us," the 2023 movie, presents a tantalizing blend of cinematic beauty and an intriguing premise, but ultimately falls short in its execution. With a visually stunning backdrop and promising story elements, it had the potential to be something truly special. However, a disjointed and poorly executed narrative left me somewhat unsatisfied.

One of the undeniable strengths of "Deliver Us" is its visual appeal. The cinematography and art direction are nothing short of breathtaking. Each frame is meticulously crafted, capturing the audience's attention with its mesmerizing aesthetics. The use of color, lighting, and camera work creates a vivid and immersive world that draws you in from the very beginning. In this regard, the film is an absolute triumph.

The premise of the movie also offers a unique and thought-provoking concept. It delves into themes that could have been explored in depth, challenging the audience's perceptions and sparking meaningful conversations. Unfortunately, the potential of this premise is never fully realized due to a muddled and convoluted narrative.

Where "Deliver Us" falters is in its storytelling. The plot is plagued by pacing issues, awkward transitions, and a lack of clear direction. It often feels like the movie is torn between multiple narrative threads, leaving the viewer struggling to connect the dots. This disjointed storytelling detracts from the overall experience and hinders the film's ability to engage and captivate the audience.

Character development is another area where "Deliver Us" falls short. While the cast delivers commendable performances, their characters are not given the depth and complexity they deserve. As a result, it becomes challenging to invest emotionally in their journeys, and their actions may appear arbitrary at times.

In conclusion, "Deliver Us" is a movie that possesses undeniable cinematic beauty and a tantalizing premise. However, its narrative execution leaves much to be desired. The film's pacing issues and lack of clear storytelling direction diminish its overall impact. Despite its potential, I found myself unable to fully immerse in the narrative. While it's worth watching for its visual aesthetics, "Deliver Us" ultimately falls short of being the exceptional film it could have been. I.

I don't know what happened here. The first twenty minutes of this movie had me asking myself how I'd never heard of it, much less how it was not receiving an absurd amount of praise in the horror movie community. It was awesome.

And then the rest of the movie happened. The middle was so boring, and almost as if it was written by a totally different person. The ending livened things up a bit but not nearly enough to rekindle the atmosphere and engrossing nature of the beginning.

I give it a 5 because it wasn't awful. I'll probably never watch it again. Had the same passion been put into the entirity of the movie that was clearly placed into the beginning... I probably would have placed it into my top 10 in horror.

I would say this movie was quite well made cinematically. The picture is crisp and beautiful, the colors nicely match the atmosphere and empower it. Unfortunately, crisp picture is not enough to make a good movie, it lacks in other departments.

First of all, even though characters are stylistically solid, their visuals match their identities, the bad guy looks bad, the lead actresses look stunning, the protagonist looks humble, etc. Still, they are lacking any kind of good background, they are not explored well enough to introduce us to feel for them.

The religion theme chosen is just used together with the most basic plot you can come around. It seems like all the story boxes are checked, but those boxes are for the most straight-forward, basic movie, it's not original in any way. And lack of character development does not go well with that.

The horror part is weak. Which is sad, because aside from the good plot, this is also another very important thing for me in a horror movie. There are some scenes of gore, some soft screamers involved, but I would say that overall, its far on mild side for a horror. Unless, maybe, if you are a very religious person, otherwise I don't see how any part of this movie might actually frighten you.

Last thing, I guess, to which all of the other things mentioned contribute, is the overall sense of sterility of the movie. It looks beautiful as I mentioned, yet at the same time it's so clean, crisp, it feels ice cold. It seems just unnatural for a horror movie. Probably scenes just lack in small details that could add to any natural environments. This also applies to characters, which are all so clean to fit the narrative and picture, but it does look unnatural. Once again, they check all the boxes, and that's beautiful, but they fail to display any depth and any originality within it.

I believe, you would best enjoy such movie on a big screen, ideally in a theater of course where you'd be able to catch all the beautiful sides of it.

Clearly it is made by artists who done their job well. Yet I just want to take this moment to mention how important a good writer's job is. As this movie is a good example.

So, there is a huge difference between a regular artist and a good writer. Artists tend to reproduce the already known thing in their own new perspective (which might be beautiful), yet still is much easier to do in comparison with what a great writer should do - come up with a totally new and unseen thing, while making it seem real and plausible all the way through.

The synopsis for this 2023 horror movie "Deliver Us" sounded interesting, and with it being a horror movie that I hadn't already seen, nor actually heard about when I stumbled upon it here in 2024, then of course I opted to sit down and watch it.

The storyline and script, from writers Lee Roy Kunz and Kane Kunz, was okay and watchable. However, the movie is rather monotonous and slow paced, and the narrative is definitely suffering from that. While the storyline is interesting, then directors Cru Ennis and Lee Roy Kunz were simply taking too long to take the story nowhere.

"Deliver Us" is somewhat of a difficult movie to sit through, given the fact that there isn't really a whole lot happening. And I must admit that I was close to giving up on finish watching it, just short of making it halfway through. But I opted to stick with it, hoping that directors Cru Ennis and Lee Roy Kunz would step up and bring a bit more to the table.

However, that just never happened and "Deliver Us" was ultimately an insanely slow paced and uneventful movie. And as for it being a horror movie, well, don't get your hopes up.

Of the entire cast ensemble in the movie, then I was only familiar with actor Thomas Kretschmann, and he was not even in a leading role. However, it should be said that the acting performances from the actors and actresses in the movie were actually quite fair, despite the fact that the script and storyline was so very mundane.

"Deliver Us" was a swing and a miss of a movie in terms of entertaining me. And this is most definitely not a movie that I will ever return to watch a second time. Nor is it a movie that I would recommend for the average horror fan to rush out and get to watch. If you are interested in religious storylines, then you might get a kick out of watching "Deliver Us", but for a casual viewer then the movie just didn't cut it.

This slow burn of a movie just didn't really tickle me in any of the right places.

My rating of "Deliver Us" lands on a very generous three out of ten stars.

After you have a cold and brutal opening scene that looks really promising I was really interested to see where this movie is going. But a couple of minutes into the story and our main characters are leaving the remote monastery where the movie begins and after that the movie turns really slow and the only horror aspects consists of weird dreams and visions. The whole middle part of the movie was really slow and not particularly interesting.

I really enjoyed the beginning because it was scary, tense and had a great atmosphere and I genuinely enjoy movies with a snowy setting. But that whole second act was just awful to be honest. There are some pacing issues and the movie really loses its momentum after the promising start.

Then towards the third act the movie picks up the momentum again but still the payoff wasn't enough for it to make it a great horror movie.

It is stylish and really well shot and I think this movie could have been a lot better. [5,0/10]

The film looked like it had a good premise, religious/horror feel to it but overall it was too slow, story all over the place and poorly executed. There was no scares in the film, no twists or turns to make it interesting or pull you in. Just a very basic religious film about God & the devil and the fight against good/bad.

This film should have been so much better and kind of feels lost in they wasn't sure what to do here. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone, there is just no real importance, action, scare, acting etc for anyone to get anything from this film. Real let down and a waste of 2 hours.

A short phrase to describe this movie would be' "dark prophetic catholic horror." It's just that. The cinematography kept the atmosphere a dark aura in a lingering dreamy-like state. This is a horror movie, not a thriller. I think some critics seem to confuse this as them being one and the same, and they are not.

Honestly, I am a sucker for Catholicism/horror. I think the films atmosphere, the characters, and setting all combined to make this one of the best in the category. In most of these types of horror (revolving around Catholicism) the characters, actors, and script usually are all over-the-top, making them eye-rollers. This one actually played out well and was actually believable, without the feeling of it popping out of some kind of comic. The main villain (satanist) was very believable. Again, not over the top and just tense enough to be bat#**% crazy, and not stupid. He was the perfect sociopath. He played his character very well, as did all the actors.

I really liked the dark atmosphere the movie kept consistent with. It really added to a prophetical plot quite nicely.

There is a lot of graphic killings, which is to be expected of horror films. I would recommend this movie over most catholic related horror movies. Just keep in mind, it is NOT a thriller. I would even recommend it to some Catholics. A real Catholic does not fear the devil; unless you're one of those family-friendly, everything is goody type people. Then I would not recommend this film.

With all my opinions out there I thought this movie would at least be above a (5). Broaden your horizons and let a different type of story be told and I'm sure you'll agree with me.

Deliver Us got a decent production, a good working cast and a fine visual quality, but, like other reviewers already stated, the script/story is way too predictable and can't provide something really new or too exciting to the genre of what I would brand supernatural horror with a religious theme. The end of the movie is also a rather weak one, at least in my opinion. What else? The level on the horror-o-meter is a mediocre one: a few scenes of gore don't provide more than just a little spicy flavor here and there but not much. Verdict: Deliver Us - solid and decent but somewhat meandering around the level "mediocrity", not bad, not too good either, but that's mostly because of the plot. Okay, if you like movies a la The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Rite, End of Days (starring the mighty Schwarzenegger) also comes to mind. Last note: next time, just deliver us a lil' more and surprising evil ;)

This written by a pair Kunz, and it shows. Lee and Kane Kunz to be precise.

This was right up my street, I thought. Immaculate conceptions, warrior priests and nuns on the run, what's not to like? Well, apparently, quite a lot.

This movie doesn't know what it wants to be. An arthouse drama, action thriller, horror?

There is a little too much messing around in a church then giving birth on a train (because yeah, that happens) with no blood, afterbirth, washing or cord cutting. Then a forest.

The dreams were good and quite spooky in parts, the acting adequate, the cinematography good but with poor direction.

It looked so promising in the beginning. Religious horror movies can be great. "Hellhole" was a recent example of a great one that is truly underrated. This is not an exorcist type which like zombie movies are worn out. Lots of atmosphere here but the story just doesn't come together or provide enough. Yes, it's beautifully shot, although it's visually very dark and seems to be shot mostly at night. This is rather annoying. It is violent too at times. Perhaps they just need better scripts in order to make it work better. Overall, it was disappointing. You never know what you're going to get with this genre.

I'll keep this review brief. The movie has some gorgeous cinematography; the acting is all right (I really like the protagonist, the male priest); and the concept involving immaculate conception + AntiChrist/Messiah twins is compelling. I also feel the movie's opening act, where the protagonist first goes to see the woman who gives the immaculate birth, was well done: there were some really creepy and suspenseful scenes in the first portion

But the movie quickly loses steam midway. Here, the movie starts dipping into all kinds of visions, dreams, romance-triangles, and premonitions etc. All of these scenes were just more annoying than interesting. And all the horror and creepiness that we saw in the opening act vanishes midway.

Good concept, but a missed execution.

There will be no one to deliver you from this movie. Writing a review is something I've rarely done. Each person will view a movie differently. What appeals to one may not another. Sometimes we all can reach a zenith in an experience where it can universally be great or awful. This movie peaks at awfulness. When acting is so atrocious, as in the case of this show, it can be offset by great scene location. Not so here. Only a few locations that are rather bland. Only the end at the ocean was there any good location scenery. If the acting is worthless and production can't afford good locations then maybe the story can redeem the movie. Again, not so here. This movie spends its entire time meandering around pointlessly with its story that it gets lost along the way and tries in vain to rewrite itself as you're watching it. I don't think I've ever seen that done before. And hopefully never will again. There was no passion put into this movie and no love for this show at all. It began to become apparent that the actors regretted ever participating in this show and just got to the point of wanting to finish the job. It's like being at work and watching the clock until the shift is done. The longer you stare at the clock the longer the workday becomes. The longer one watches this movie the more unbearable and frustrating life becomes. No one is here to deliver you from this pile of crap.

Deliver Us (2023) is a religious horror film with stunning cinematography and gore, but a disappointing script. It could have been a better film if the screenplay was better.

The film follows a Russian nun who claims to have immaculately conceived twins. The Vatican sends a team of priests to investigate, but they are joined by affiliates of a secret society with orders to abort both children. An American Jesuit discovers their plan and helps her escape.

The cinematography in Deliver Us is truly beautiful. The directors use light and shadow to create a sense of atmosphere and suspense. The film also features some gruesome gore for the gore hound horror fans.

However, the script for Deliver Us is disappointing. The plot is convoluted and the characters are underdeveloped. The film also suffers from some tonal inconsistencies, switching between horror, comedy, and drama without much success.

Overall, Deliver Us is a mixed bag. It is worth a watch if you are a fan of religious horror, gore, and art house films. However, it is not a keeper for me. The script is too disappointing to make up for the film's strengths.

If the screenplay was better, Deliver Us could have been a truly great horror film. It has all the elements in place: a unique and interesting premise, stunning cinematography, and some truly gruesome gore. However, the script falls short, and the film ultimately fails to live up to its potential.

I don't usually put effort into writing full reviews (just clicking the rating stars is all I have time for these days) but given that the Halloween season is here, I'm sure there's a large appetite for a new horror film and could use a good review. Now I certainly would consider this movie, with a plot about the arrival of the Messiah and the Anti-Christ in infant form, deep in the horror genre. And on that alone, it's a great Halloween movie special lots of jump scares. But the questions of faith/morality, and what can make a man "a bad priest, but a good Christian" as gets quoted, are honestly why I think this movie surpasses others. Please go see!

The start of the film was glorious, totally intrigued by the lore, but I was frustrated by the lack of attempts to expand on it, which could have helped other story elements be better. It kinda felt like whoever wrote the start to the film was kind of absent afterwards. After a creepy and compelling beginning I was bored and disappointed that this was just another poor attempt at an end of days/antichrist film. It's pretty to watch and at times really has a good grip on catering to a dark and isolated haunting atmosphere. I'm just sorry it wasn't better at scaring me or keeping me interested.

And for anyone who plays Dead by Daylight, keep an ear out for the Huntress's lullaby!

This one started off with a really gnarly and intriguing bang. It then pretty quickly slowed down and seemed to heavily rely on audio design for spook and jump scares.

While there were other aspects to the horror than just that, I do think one of the biggest missteps here was the pacing. This was really quite slow and is going to air much more on the side of boring rather than atmospheric or tension building for most I think. Personally, it was on the edge for me and I didn't mind it all too much. I was engaged and entertained for most of the experience.

The acting was just so-so. While he had some good moments, overall I wasn't a huge fan of our main actor as his delivery drew me out of the moment at times. I also think that they lacked on the story a bit here. While it didn't feel crazy original, it was still a solid foundation... it just didn't feel like it really went anywhere. Being a religious horror while dipping its toe into folk horror, there were a lot of opportunities and places this story could have gone but didn't.

I was leaning towards a six but unfortunately the ending was a tad unfulfilling and I think there was just a lot of wasted potential here that knocked it down a bit for me. Regardless, I did still enjoy this and would recommend to someone who doesn't mind a slower pace.

This movie is so bad, that you can't even laugh about it because you can tell they tried so damn hard with this movie to be taken seriously. It's almost like horror movies are just doomed from the start, because I can barely come up with any good ones, and this one takes the cake as being the worst I've ever seen. I'd much rather watch sharknado or some other dumb movie like that, because at least you can have fun with how bad it is, this one is just a borefest all over. Nothing about this is good and deserves any praise what so ever. Everyone involved in this movie is incompetent when it comes to making movies.