Title: BETTER LEFT ALONE
Product review: While Paul Shrader's typically lush, original version of the Exorcist prequel is infinitely better than Harlin's incoherent mess, it is still an exercise in futility. The original Exorcist has spawned nothing but srangely dense, difficult to swallow meanderings that have nothing to do with the heart, soul and terror of the original. It's as if the screenwriters and directors of all of these sequels and prequels and offshoots missed the commercial appeal of the first and only decent Exorcist movie: it was a basic, well-told story of good versus evil. It made the devil real. It was scary. Though there are moments in Dominion that have a strange, poetic beauty to them, the movie starts out in debt - it has no compelling story to tell.
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