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Plot:
A gumshoe private investigator is hired by a mysterious and malevolent client to find a missing crooner who owes him on a debt, but when the PI starts his investigation he is thwarted by the murders o...( read more 
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Recent Reviews
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MCT:October 25, 2008My favorite Mickey Rourke movie. Suspense around every corner and an ending you dont expect. A great halloween film.
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MCT:October 24, 2008
Detective Angel (Mickey Rourke) is hired by a mysterious, sartorial client (Robert De Niro) to track down a missing man, and the search leads him to new Orleans and a voodoo cult. Supernatural film noir with a very chilling twist, if you don't guess it early on.
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MCT:October 12, 2008
with the recent talk of remake,I gave this movie another look,thanks to fearnet.A 1955 private eye,Harry Angel(Mikey Rourke) gets hired by a mysterious client Louis Cypher(Robert DeNiro)to find a missing person.The missing man named Johnny Favorite owes a debt from a contract to Mr. Cypher.The trail leads Harry from NewYork to the bayous of Louisiana .There he uncovers voodoo and murder.You might outsmart the devil but you can't outrun him.
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MCT:October 8, 2008
Decent horror and great mystery. You can see the biggest twists coming but it still keeps you thinking and that's a rare feat.
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MCT:October 5, 2008
Just gave this another look for Halloween, it really holds up well.
I love the voodoo/mystery/noir vibe thoughout, as well as the jazzy score and the sense of dread as Rourke gets firther in over his head.
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MCT:September 27, 2008
Alan Parker is one of those guys that doesn't try to do the same thing twice (the guy did The Wall for Christ sakes). What he does with Angel Heart is take a well worn formula (the gum shoe detective) and give it a bit of a twist (supernatural voodoo) that gives us a film that keeps us riveted as we follow Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) from Brooklyn to New Orleans to Hell.
Angel is hired by the mysterious Louis Cypher (Robert DeNiro who seems to have transformed into Scorsese on coke) to find a mysterious musician who owes him a debt. The simple plot follows Angel through many places and many corpses until the revelation is uncovered.
Simple. Yet complex. You sit through most of the film thinking it's a basic private dick dick, but it soon becomes more complicated than that. That's why the film works. The script is good, though there are some scenes that seem to need prodding along. Parker's world is dirty, but not dark. He shines the light on the dirt, keeping the film from going to noirish. Rourke and DeNiro are great with DeNiro playing a true Cypher throughout the film.
Overall Angel Heart is another great piece of film making from Alan Parker. The film does have a twist ending before we expected twist endings that is still a bit predictable, but the ride getting there is always half the fun. -
MCT:September 18, 2008
An all-around cool movie, Angel Heart boasts that same surreal, creepy feeling as Jacob's Ladder. Unlike Jacob's Ladder, though, Angel Heart's story is a very easy one to guess, despite its twists. Still, the excellent acting, moody atmosphere and quirky characters make it a great flick overall. Check it out.
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MCT:August 30, 2008
This movie was not without its charm, but the only reason it gets points at all is because of Robert deNiro's performance as Louis Cypher. Apart from that, there is little redeeming about this movie. The script, story, characters and performances all fall kind of flat. The only thing that keeps that audience's interest is the mysterious dark magic element, but it's so poorly handled into such an illogical culmination that it makes the whole movie seem for naught. Very disappointing.
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MCT:August 28, 2008
I like this movie very much. It shows that it is dated, but the concept, the theme, characters and atmosphere is all well done. Probably a movie that was ahead of its time (the twist end type of movie was not a fad in that time). Makes me think of midnight in the garden of good and evil with a mixture of 6th sense maybe... Pretty haunting.
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MCT:August 23, 2008
Beautifully shot film. There is a palpable sense of dread throughout. Each scene is drained of color. Visually stunning with great acting.
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MCT:August 13, 2008
Nice & Strange Movie!
If you liked Jacob's Ladder see this movie too!
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MCT:August 4, 2008
I saw this many years ago and somehow I ask "what happened Mr. Rouke"? I saw that face the talent and loved him but somehow he was blacklisted, thankfully after some major 2AM screening sessions of Sin City, Rouke is (was) back.
Anyhow Deniro is a bad ass. It had a shock ending before the shock ending was somewaht of a criteria in todays mainsteam films. I was WEIRDED out by the chicken blood and nakedness, no wonder Bill Cosby booted Bonnet after this film. It was a genunie thinking persons ? horror film not a splatter fest.
The most shocking could be it is an ALAN PARKER film...What???? -
MCT:June 16, 2008
Really enjoyed this movie, worked out what was going on a bit too early but that didn't really make the rest of the film any less interesting.
Brilliant performance from DeNiro. -
MCT:June 14, 2008
Before Se7en and The Sixth Sense, take a dark memory lane with Angel Heart. Adapted from William Hjortsberg novel "Falling Angel", it is essentially a mix of hard-boiled and horror.
From the seedy alleys/clubs of Harlem and New Orleans to deep Lousiana, dir Alan Parker drips grimy menace at the right turns. Robert DeNiro - even if his part is a cameo - you can feel somthing not right everytime he appears. Lisa Bonet was both smouldering though vulnerable as a young voodoo priestess. And last but not least, the awesome Mickey Rourke in the lead who (in Roger Ebert's words) filled the centre of the film like a violently unmade bed.
Repeating viewings will not diminish the enjoyment of the movie. Even if you may have figured out its twist ending
But you may not look at old creaky elevators the same way.
If there's any morals in this film it would be: if you don't who you truly are, you're damned. -
MCT:June 13, 2008
dark and twisted like all good noir should be. A twist that, you think you see coming but then takes an even deeper turn. Strong performances all round.
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MCT:June 13, 2008
Very nice period piece set in 1950s New York and New Orleans and revolving around voodoo. The "twist" ending was done rather ham-handedly, but it's an enthralling movie nonetheless.
Notable for being the film that practically got Lisa Bonet kicked off The Cosby Show. -
MCT:May 26, 2008
The plot seemed rather formulaic, save for the "twist" ending, which was fairly easy to predict beforehand, thanks to a crapton of obvious clues. I absolutely loved Mickey Rourke's performance, though, and am a bit peeved as I am writing this review and seeing the Angel Heart dvd cover on the lefthand side of my screen which relegates him to a small head shot in the background, while Robert DeNiro dominates. Anyway, I digress... Angel Heart is a good detective-noir that brings something extra to the table with its religious and supernatural aspects and is worth seeing for Mickey Rourke, if nothing else.
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MCT:April 30, 2008
I've been meaning to watch this for a long time. The only thing I really knew about it was that Bill Cosby was really perturbed that Lisa Bonet was in it. And now I know why. This is a great stylistic detective story with some extremely spooky and disturbing themes, maybe a little silly near the end, but still effective. I kinda had an idea where the story was headed about halfway through, but I'm a sucker for a well-made detective story, and this one is that, with the supernatural/voodoo elements adding a unique twist. Mickey Rourke makes for a great private eye, and it's cool to see a young (and thin!) Pruitt Taylor Vince. Not for everyone, but I thought it was a pretty effective thriller disguised as a period gumshoe tale.
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MCT:March 27, 2008This movie proves that Mickey is the greatest actor, he out preforms DeNiro in this. Pity Mickey made some bad choices later in life
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MCT:February 2, 2008
A dark & occult thriller with some creepy moments that is surrounded by a unsolved mystery & voodoo rituals.A well directed film with a good plot,scary visuals & a great performance by Mickey Rourke.The film was a little slow but interesting enough that conveys suspense with a great conclusion that will unfold the mystery.
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