The Rite gets a lot right in terms of concept and surprisingly few things wrong. The problem is the gravity of what they got wrong. Examples? Why yes, I can provide some examples!
Deacons, while clerics, are not priests. A demon would know the difference. No deacon would presume to take on more than is his right in terms of sacraments and exorcisms.
Why would anyone offer a letter of resignation from seminary right after having been ordained to the transitional Diaconate? That's just silly.
Being out of a state of grace doesn't mean you're not allowed to pray.
Some more picky things, where was this classroom? IN the Vatican? Doubtful. A priest should know how to genuflect properly, right knee to the ground, unless he's Carthusian.
Now for some things they really got right. It takes more than recitation of the prayers, it takes the belief in God Almighty for an exorcist to be effective.
All in all, not a bad film. It would be nice if anyone in Hollywood actually had a faithful Catholic on their staff so that they could not miss some of these obvious things.
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