"The Rite is an all-too-rare film that makes that clear, because it has the advantage of being based on the real-life work of a Northern California exorcist named Father Gary Thomas. Thomas and journalist Matt Baglio, who wrote a book about Thomas (also called The Rite), were hired as expert consultants on the film and ensured that it largely stayed grounded in reality rather than sensationalism. The result is a surprisingly faith-filled (yet often dark along the way) film that shows its priests as heroes you can root for, rather than just sacrificial victims of evil.
It is in this fact—the fact that the film unabashedly offers the view that evil exists and Satan is present in the world to this day—that The Rite proves itself as a film of value and worthy of Christian viewing and support. Go and you’ll experience some creepily enjoyable chills and several jaw-dropping moments, but more importantly, you’ll gain true insights into the priests and the process involved in their very front-line battle against the enemy. And if you take it as seriously as the filmmakers clearly have, that kind of strong and well-made reminder can be a good thing for believers indeed."
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