The Ritual Killer

❤x6
This was slightly better than I expected. Except for the ending. The ending felt wrong and was completely unexpected.

How I rate:
1-3 ❤ = seriously! don't waste your time
4-6 ❤ = you may or may not enjoy this
7-8 ❤ = I expect you will like this too
9-10 ❤ = movies and TV shows I really love!

I guess the budget was basically gone when they had Freeman and Stormare connected to the project. Then there was no money left for a proper scenarist and some decent writers, so they had to hire a bunch of high school students.

UGHHHH. This movie could've been so much better. They had so many screw ups even too the end. Two packages? At least show the one opened before the second one and the final scene. Huge miss right there.

The way the little girl ends up in the Musk imitation's home needed to be better explained rather than just magically there, leaving the viewer to try and figure out how the creepy witch doctor managed to get her there. That seems like total BS. And zero explanation why she had to be met in person, verified, unlike the rest?

The patrol cop that gets it after the first two, completely unbelievable when we know the knee jerk reaction given the situation would've been to shoot even if missed. Not a shot off?
or after he knocks down the main detective but doesn't stab him? Especially when it seems he cuts every other cop he ran into?

The ending would've been super cool except for glaring inconsistencies. We know the main detective is a little off, but the scene at the mansion seems stupid and unnecessary. Time that could've laid out some of the actual detective work better.

The hospital scene where he doesn't see his partner again? Hell, just kill the character off then. Just stupid and unnecessary again.

So much potential and great actors. Shitty and inconsistent script.
3.7 out of 10. Skip it together unless you can't find anything else to watch.

Wow. What a waste of 90 minutes. Totally spoilt by the last 10 seconds. Poor ending. Morgan Freeman must be really struggling.

Where to start, where to start.
- The fight scenes are atrocious Bad enough that you wont mind about the horrible foley during those scenes.
- The movie begins a bit like someone telling a half-remembered story in a hurry. Feels disjointed and rushed.
- Jumpcut flashback scenes at random moments feel like this is an arthouse movie by a fledgeling director.
- The headliner of the movie who is so prominently displayed on the poster is on screen far less than you'd expect and mostly to recite exposition.
- Not only does the main character look (vaguely) like Steven Seagal, he acts like him too. To be fair: Most other actors in this waste of digital media do too.
- Pivotal scenes (kidnappings, autopsies and [spoiler]ritual killings[/spoiler]) are too often told, not shown. Thereby defeating the purpose of filming the thing in the first place.
- Some glaring continuity errors.
- The ending is as the beginning: A disjointed mess, rushed and unneeded. The final scene is just stupid.

All told, this is a sad low budget cash-grab and I cannot imagine or fathom why Freeman lent his name and likeness to this dross. No redeeming qualities at all. Took all my self control to finish the thing.

This was a ridiculous attempt at something exciting, and I don't know what the director was trying to achieve. Weak storyline, and the ending was mostly... well.

Don't waste your time. 3/10.

Not exactly the worst serial killer type movie...definitely not the best, though. I will say Morgan Freeman carried this. Without him, I'd probably not have watched this.
Wasted potential is probably of the worst things, so much of this could have been better. If you haven't watched Se7en, then watch that instead.

Director George Gallow once provided the screenplay for Midnight Run. That movie is a classic but The Ritual Killer? Garbage - on a par with Gallo's last disappointment, Vanquish.

As a detective Cole Hauser makes a great cowboy. This was 4/10. Don’t bother.