Loosely based on retired NYPD detective Ralph Sarchie's memoir Beware the Night, Deliver Us From Evil follows Bronx cop Sarchie (Eric Bana) as he investigates a series of grisly and eerie crimes that end up being connected by the supernatural. Ralph's investigation sees him cross paths with Father Mendoza (Edgar Ramirez), an unorthodox Jesuit priest and exorcist. Sarchie, a streetwise Italian-American who lost his faith in Catholicism, must overcome his cynicism if he and Mendoza are going to defeat this demon.
As directed and co-written by newly minted Doctor Strange helmer Scott Derrickson, Deliver Us from Evil is a hybrid police procedural and supernatural thriller that works better as a horror film than it does a cop movie. The supernatural is clearly more familiar and comfortable terrain for Derrickson to navigate as the movie engages in almost every cop movie cliche you can imagine. There's the underwritten, suffering cop's wife (adequately played by Olivia Munn), the wise-cracking partner (Joel McHale, whose character sure has a thing for knives), and the cop who takes the job home with him (when he is home that is).
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