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Exorcist: The Beginning
2004
· Movie
· 114 min
F
MEANRANK
41/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5780
- IMDb #5567
- Rotten Tomatoes #5067
- Metacritic #4919
- Letterboxd #5681
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5432
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #5017
- Metacritic Critics #4784
- Metacritic Audience #4791
- Criticker #3903
- Kinopoisk #5336
- AlloCiné #5510
- Trakt #5076
Every rating
10–68
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 10, highest is Google on 68. Critics average 20, everyone else 45.
See the most agreed on films →Father Lankester Merrin, years before the events in Georgetown, is a disillusioned priest who has renounced his faith. He is hired to lead an archaeological dig in Kenya, where a Byzantine church has been found buried and perfectly preserved. He must confront a demonic presence that is terrorizing the local village.
Details
- Director
- Renny Harlin
- Writers
- Alexi Hawley, Caleb Carr, William Wisher
- Based on
- The Exorcist
- Released
- 20 August 2004
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $80.0M
- Box office
- $78.0M
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