this couldn't have been a worse prequel if it tried, the only thing I really liked was the stuff about where he was made to choose which 10 people were to be killed at the beginning of the movie,, the father as it turns out is also into archaeology, and is on his 6 dig,, he's giving up on religion as he has lost all of his faith,, he finds a Christian Church buried to the roof in sand,, where the should not have been a Christian church,, apparently there is a lot of evil going on here and is transferred to a young handicapped boy,, thought Skarssgaard was weak and appeared to be bored in this one,, the action was dry, weak,, and the movie itself I thought was very boring,, nothing really scary about this only reason I gave it a 3 there were a few good things in the movie,, it was somewhat interesting..

Solid film ?? There is no doubt in my mind that those reviews come from members of the production or their family... Let me resume it: it's a lame, low budget remake of Exorcist: The Beginning, only made without any sense of direction or story. A real agony to watch, and a complete waste of time. The only horror come from having to endure it. I mean... who makes a retell of the same film, almost identical, a year later of Exorcist: The Beginning, but trying to make it un-watchable ? Beats me. Why Stellan Skarsgård agreed to make such a trash of a movie, is a mystery to me. Exorcist: The Beginning is not a great film, but is a decent try. Its entertaining. Dominion is the worst exorcist movie ever made, and one of the lamest excuses of a movie I have ever suffered, ranking very high among the very worst films I have watched in my life, and I have seen thousands. A rating of 5.3 ?? really ?

If you look this film up, you can read a wealth of information about how terrible the initial reviews were for it. It was re-released under 'Exorcist: The Beginning' which was essentially just a different edit and a desperate attempt to salvage the whole project. If you're a fan of the original 'The Exorcist' don't feel drawn towards this film as the two are unrelated. In fact, William Peter Blatty, the author/screenwriter of it, said that watching Exorcist: The Beginning was his "most humiliating professional experience." I love horror films and am totally open to anything low budget or a little odd. This is both with dire acting, scripting and special effects. I'm surprised it managed to reach the vote it did on IMDb and can only presume there are some very vocal die-hard fans out there. The film is poor in almost every way imaginable and my sincere advice, avoid like the plague!

I am a fan of the Exorcist, and on the last days I've seen all sequels from the very weak part 2, to the weak part 3 (with a good ending).But when I saw the "Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)" and on the same day "Dominion: Prequel to Exorcist (2005)", I could help but noticing that the scene where Sabituana gives born to a death baby where used on both movies! I mean, if on the last movie, Dominion the goal was to make a better movie than "beginning" (which they got it but not much better) why use the same footage? It is really stingy, as most of people that will watch Dominion had seen the Beginning.Dominion tries to improve where the Beginning failed, and although it's better on some aspects (some characters were eliminated, good choice), it still lacks of the terror environment of the first Exorcist. The impression that I have is that they could make more 10 sequels and it would fail in all times.Why don't just repeat the recipe? The Exorcist is perfect, but like in Dominion they try to make new ways to show the devil, and they always fails, the end is very weak, this "buda devil" is laughable, and don't scary not even my grandma...If you are a fan of Exorcist, you could watch, but with the spirit of seeing a good B-Movie and nothing more...