Ambitious little chiller, related largely in flashback, concerning a working-class Texas widower (Bill Paxton, who also directed) who announces one night to his two young sons that an angel has visited him in his sleep and anointed him a slayer of demons. A hit-list of same will be forthcoming. "So we're like superheroes?" enthuses the younger of the sons. More like serial killers, in the eyes of the elder. It doesn't quite come off, and never escapes the danger of an unwanted laugh, but it does exercise a grip on our attention, and generates a mild case of the willies. The ambitiousness is rather undermined in the long run by the cheap switcheroo outcome, and by the inflationary rhetoric in the operative definition of "demon." Don't we ask more of our demons than the everyday stains on the police blotter? Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe, Matt O'Leary. (2002) — Duncan Shepherd
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