Hugh Grant's performance is realistically affable and threatening, and the writing is persuasive and provocative... and then the film doesn't know where to go. It's as if the executives said 'we need to have a lot of blood and gore and schlocky stuff at the end'. So suddenly people are getting slashed with knives or stabbed, and ridiculously coming back from the dead when the plot needs another jump moment. What a great shame. So I don't think Heretic works at all,
Hugh Grant's performance is realistically affable and threatening, and the writing is persuasive and provocative... and then the film doesn't know where to go. It's as if the executives said 'we need to have a lot of blood and gore and schlocky stuff at the end'. So suddenly people are getting slashed with knives or stabbed, and ridiculously coming back from the dead when the plot needs another jump moment. What a great shame. So I don't think Heretic works at all,
That is all fair - the last act of the film is a bit of a swerve!