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To me, this movie is perfection.

It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Dogma is again Kevin Smith at his wittiest. This film will probably offend the theist but it's quite funny when it should be and doesn't hold back. In fact the ending is almost borderline crazy. Featuring a host of cameos as expected in Smith's films Dogma is a ripe comedy from the last months of the 90s. If you like comedy films which hold no punches then Dogma should be on your watch list.

Dogma, 1999. *Spoiler/plot- Humanity is put on trial for it's 'humanness' by the heavenly powers. *Special Stars- Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, M. Garafolo, George Carlin, Star & Writer & DIR: Kevin Smith. *Theme- Only suckers believe in spiritual matters from the Bible.*Trivia/location/goofs- Satire film on organized religions. This film and Kevin Smith is very much loved by the college and university crowd.*Emotion- If your a cynical person and anti-spiritual, you'll love this indictment of the Catholic Church from one of it's early initiates, this film's writer, star and director, Kevin Smith. Humanity is helped along by human assistants made up of the most trite biblical characters. These helpers spend their screen time with juvenile toilet jokes and extensive unnecessary cursing using God's name. A total waste of your time to learn anything positive about dogma or biblical or spiritual matters. Just cheap and boring sectarian tripe from a wise-ass dolt who shows you his hatred of Catholic matters by mocking them at every turn.*Based on- Media driven sectarian biblical matters

An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loop-hole and reenter Heaven. Although it repeats the stupid humor and Kevin Smith's over the top direction Dogma is actually one of his most underrated one sure it has problems and the 3rd act although action packed it just weird especially when Ben Affleck doesn't act anymore but he pretends that he plays a villain and not a great one unfortunately. The best thing about this film is Alan Rickman bless his soul he is amazing in this film and he mostly steals the show alongside Linda Fiorentino who did a nice job as well everyone else were just OK nothing really great although Affleck and Damon have a really great chemistry together two thumbs up. I give Dogma a 7.5 out of 10 and a B+

A revisit of Kevin Smith's subversive religious comedy DOGMA, "subversive" may it seems in a story where God is a woman (played by the one-and-only Alanis Morissette, whose voice can shatter anything into fragments, deservingly to be the choice chanteuse during my adolescence); there is a 13th apostle Rufus (Rock) who has been omitted in the Bible simply because of his skin colour; two fallen angles Loki (Damon) and Bartleby (Affleck) find a loophole induced by a new "Buddy Christ" propaganda from Cardinal Glick (Carlin) in New Jersey, they will get the supposed plenary indulgence and re-enter Heaven, until one of them goes berserk becomes a human-killing winged creature. A blasphemy cannot be dodged for sure, but eventually the film appears not as subversive as the synopsis suggests, au fond, Smith simply picks various characters from religious myth and squeeze them into a wacky adventure of fantasy without even badmouthing Catholicism, there should be no hard-feeling (as the opening pointers amusingly noted).So the dogma is "God is infallible", two angels' plan will precipitate the undoing of the present human world, thus the last scion of God's bloodline, Bethany (Fiorentino), is a divorcée works in an abortion clinic who is infertile, is informed by Metatron (Rickman) to stop them with the allies of two prophets Jay and Silent Bob (Mewes and Smith himself), the said Rufus and the Muse Serendipity (Hayek), who is trapped in a writer's block and moonlights as a stripper. Also involved is the evil force led by a demon Azrael (Lee) and the Stygian Triplets, not to mention the crass excremental creature Golgothan which Azrael summons.All these modifications and additions are reflecting Smith's geeky upbringing, a bit vulgar nevertheless, but also straightforwardly amusing, and it even becomes more topical as a cultural phenomenon now. Among the motley crew of the cast, Alan Rickman pops out with his noble persona as the second-only-to-God Metatron (in spite of his unconventional look), who is allocated with the forbidding task to materialise in front of the unwitting Bethany, explain the whole absurd scenario convincingly to her and persuade her to fulfil the mission, believe it or not, he actually carries it through wonderfully. Florentino (now completely retired from the screen) discharges a phlegmatic quality contrary of others' comedy-leaning dramatisation and loquacity (bar Silent Bob). Damon and Affleck are quite at ease to play off each other and Hayek is at the crest of her physical beauty whereas Rock is in his own comfortable zone without being too irritating. All in all, any film who has the guts to cast Morissette as the almighty God (even only for a paltry of minutes) deserves its place on my guilty pleasure list.