It is by no means essential that an audience care for the characters on screen in a movie, but if you want your audience invested in what happens to the characters it certainly helps. Put another way, if the audience forms a relationship with the characters, the audience will care more. This does not occur in The Vatican Tapes, Mark Neveldine's new film about a young woman possessed by a malevolent spirit.
After a brief opening where we see a video of this woman, Angela (Olivia Dudley), possessed, the story goes back in time to show us how this horrific event began. We only spend the briefest amount of time with Angela before things begin to rapidly go downhill. While these moments are long enough to establish basic facts about who she is—a woman celebrating her birthday with her boyfriend, Pete (John Patrick Amedori), a man who is not liked by her army officer father, Roger (Dougray Scott)—we never form a connection with her.
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After a brief opening where we see a video of this woman, Angela (Olivia Dudley), possessed, the story goes back in time to show us how this horrific event began. We only spend the briefest amount of time with Angela before things begin to rapidly go downhill. While these moments are long enough to establish basic facts about who she is—a woman celebrating her birthday with her boyfriend, Pete (John Patrick Amedori), a man who is not liked by her army officer father, Roger (Dougray Scott)—we never form a connection with her.
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