![]() ![]() ![]() In The Rite, a flat, portentous film, a newcomer to cinema, Colin O'Donoghue, plays an American novice, son of an undertaker, who's sent to Rome to shore up his wavering faith by studying exorcism in the Vatican and acting as apprentice to Welsh Jesuit Anthony Hopkins, an eccentric caster-out of devils. In one astonishing scene Cage has sex with a naked cocktail waitress while swigging from the bottle of Jack Daniel's in one hand and killing six assailants with the gun he's holding in the other. Along the way he's followed by a sinister, smartly dressed figure who calls himself the Accountant, a comic-strip version of Ibsen's Button Moulder, impressively played by that cool heavy William Fichtner, who's proof that in addition to wearing Prada the devil also models Hugo Boss. In the good one, Drive Angry, Cage plays a crazy lowlife cunningly named John Milton (author presumably of "Pair-of-Dice Lost") who's driving from Colorado to Louisiana to prevent a religious cult from sacrificing his little grandchild to the devil as a means of taking over America. One is wildly extravagant and (if you like this kind of thing) immensely entertaining, the other earnestly sober and extremely dull. T he devil finds work for idle actors, and this week he's pitchforked Nicolas Cage and Anthony Hopkins into satanic horror movies. ![]()
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