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Bless the Child (2000)
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Vanessa
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Omens and concepts of good vs. evil have no place in Maggie O'Connor's well-ordered, practical universe. Her life revolves around her job as a nurse at a busy New York hospital, until one rainy night, her sister Jenna abandons her newborn, autistic daughter at her home. Maggie takes the baby in, and she becomes the daughter she never had. Six years later Jenna suddenly re-appears with a mysterious new husband, Eric, and abducts Cody. Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, FBI agent John Travis, an expert in ritual homicide and occult-related crime, takes up her cause when he realizes that Cody shares the same birth date as several other recently missing children. The little girl, it soon becomes clear, is more than simply "special." She manifests extraordinary powers that the forces of evil have waited centuries to control, and her abduction sparks a clash between the soldiers of good and evil that can only be resolved, in the end, by the strength of one small child...
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I can't believe I forgot about this during the Worst of All Time nominations.
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(un) ! It's not THAT bad, lol.
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I love this movie. I must have seen it at least a dozen times.
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For the most part, this was more enjoyable than expected it would be.

One of the film’s strengths is the fact that there’s a much stronger storyline at play here, as this one comes with a good account for the occult and it’s teachings. which are quite detailed and engaging. The early build-up here involving the child murders along the foreground with the tie-in to the foundation leader and his slowly-revealed intentions make for quite an impressive build-up, and with the different intonations brought out here as he attempts to offer up the sacrifice in her that gives this an even more substantial weight to the storyline throughout here. The central concept of the religious struggle to retain her makes for a rather engaging time here that grows alongside the fight to get her back which is where this one really gets a decent-enough pace here with a rather fun slew of fine action scenes present.

This one has some rather engaging elements here, with the attempted death on the bridge where they trap her in the car heading into oncoming traffic or the various car chases attempting to retrieve her back in time for the ceremony that all come off rather nicely in here. As well, the big final confrontation in the compound makes for quite a great time here as this one goes into the different confrontations throughout the house and leading into the big encounter in the church in front of their minions which has some really well-done moments at the end when the whole church goes up in flames when they plan their break-up of the meeting.

Likewise, the film’s biblical imagery comes into play here with the angels’ appearance and intervention in the proceedings which makes for quite a fun finale here and makes this one pretty good even though there’s a couple issues with it.

Among the films’ flaws here is the fact that there’s one of the lamest villains possible in these types of films who doesn’t really do anything useful throughout here, standing around giving speeches about the gloriousness of his Satanic teachings yet never once doing anything to put him in the echelon of the more frightening wielders of the power and makes his threats look even less impactful than they already are.

As well, the other factor to hold this one back was the rather dull pacing in the first half as this one really takes a while to get going here as the run-around between her and the society over what their intentions are since it’s still under them simply wanting to be involved in her life. Their blandness and constant appearances makes for quite a troubled time in the first half getting this one started, and it takes the big abduction scene to even get this one moving.

These here hold this one down somewhat.
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