marieinkpen I love Mickey Rourke, I love Robert de Niro. Rourke is OK, such a lovely face, such presence, always watchable. But de Niro is crap - not helped at all by a terrible script and a clichéd role. What was he thinking? Could he have ever been so desperate for work? Very confusing film, I couldn't work out what was real and what wasn't, and the ending doesn't make sense to me - if Angel is really Johnny what is the relevance of him killing all those people? Or is it so they don't identify him? I have no idea. If he had changed into looking like the soldier then wouldn't Margaret have recognised him anyway? It could have been good but cinematically is so clichéd and irritating. And I am not a huge fan of seeing chickens killed, thank you very much.

Mr-Fusion The only thing I'd known about "Angel Heart" before watching it was that Mickey Rourke plays a hard-luck private eye in an '80s noir. Terror noir's more like it; this thing crosses genres like nobody's business. It is a detective story, but also a plunge into the muddied waters of New Orleans voodoo culture, and the underworld plays a huge part, but to say anything beyond that is giving the movie away. A lot of this movie is creepy imagery, and its pacing is leisurely, but the draw is that you're just as befuddled as Rourke.And *then* Alan Parker hits you square in the mouth with the twist ending; unfurling in not one, but two different surprises. Words can't really describe the scares one feels when witnessing bleeding walls or a baby with Thriller eyes, but those chills are genuine. And I don't normally sit through the end credits, but I did here; til the very end.I just couldn't look away.8/10

David L. Angel Heart is all about atmosphere: Dark, suspicious, dangerous and supernatural. Few horror movies get to be this good; and many try to emulate it's mood to no avail.Angel Heart is considered Alan Parker's Master Piece for a good reason. The acting is quite excellent (except maybe for Eliott Keener, playing as Det. Sterne); Rourke, Bonet and De Niro make a fabulous tríade. The general photography delivers a sense of dark eeriness and estrangement and the Sound Track (mostly Blues) works like "a charm".As a side note I would also like to mention the actor Pruitt Taylor Vince, who in this film acts as a sidekick for Det. Sterne; but the curious tidbit is that you also get to see him on "Jacob's Ladder" (1990), another Thriller/Noir Master Piece of eeriness (though a very different movie), and as memorable as Angel Heart.

Dalbert Pringle Movie quote - "Someone cut his dick off, stuffed it in his mouth, and choked him to death." To me, I saw Angel Heart as being director Alan Parker's statement about his deep-rooted hatred towards blacks.I mean, Parker certainly went well out of his way to emphasize racism, big-time, in this picture and make blacks out to be the most clueless, most gullible, most voodoo-loving idiots imaginable.Personally I view voodoo & religion as being, pretty much, one and the same thing. To me, religion is clearly whites' idea of "civilized" voodoo. Nothing more. Nothing less.And, once again, (just like in 9 1/2 Weeks) actor Mickey Rourke proved that he needed neither good looks, nor likable screen-charisma, nor any noteworthy talent to be one of Hollywood's top-ranking stars of the 1980s. (With Rourke I still remain completely baffled by what brought about his vast popularity in the movies during the days of his youth) Angel Heart is clearly one of those frustratingly confused and convoluted stories that (in all of its demented confusion) gives away its surprise, twist ending far too early in the show.And, actor Robert De Niro as the drab, soul-collecting Lucifer (with his immaculately manicured fingernails) was a bore of the highest order. Like, as though Satan, himself, would be the one going after the ones who had welshed on giving over their souls when their contract expired. That, I'm sure, would be a job for one of his henchmen to deal with.Yeah. OK. Angel Heart did contain some very striking imagery, at times, and the fairly explicit sex scene that took place between the Epiphany & Angel characters was quite startling to behold - But, in the long run, this film was a certified limp banana as far as its "Noir" aspect was concerned.And, yes, it fell flat on its face when it came to the impact of its horror element, as well.