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]]> http://ambival.net/movies/red-riding-hood-2003#comment-7100 Ambival.net » Movie Reviews » Omen IV: The Awakening Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:57:41 +0000 http://ambival.net/movies/red-riding-hood-2003#comment-7100 [...] Asia Vieira is not a great deal of fun to watch as the troubled little demoness Delia (seriously, there must be a girl’s name beginning with D scarier than this, lol – or how about just breaking with alliteration for the sake of aesthetics?) The moment she first appeared on screen, all I felt from her was awkwardness – the scenes of her terrorizing her peers at school are closer to Problem Child than Child’s Play. When she speaks for a moment I considered maybe hers would be the kind of “bad” performance a little like Susan Satta’s in Giacomo Cimini’s Red Riding Hood – but no, ultimately, if your primary reason for wanting to watch this movie is her, consider reconsidering. Even the performance aside, the very character just doesn’t have the overarching power over the movie that Damien had. [...] [...] Asia Vieira is not a great deal of fun to watch as the troubled little demoness Delia (seriously, there must be a girl’s name beginning with D scarier than this, lol – or how about just breaking with alliteration for the sake of aesthetics?) The moment she first appeared on screen, all I felt from her was awkwardness – the scenes of her terrorizing her peers at school are closer to Problem Child than Child’s Play. When she speaks for a moment I considered maybe hers would be the kind of “bad” performance a little like Susan Satta’s in Giacomo Cimini’s Red Riding Hood – but no, ultimately, if your primary reason for wanting to watch this movie is her, consider reconsidering. Even the performance aside, the very character just doesn’t have the overarching power over the movie that Damien had. [...]

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