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one of my absolute favorites!

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The acting in this movie is really good.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

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.

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

I watched the movie back in 1987 in Madrid with a group of friends.The theater was crowded. When the movie finished and the lights turned on, nobody moved from their seats. the film was so shocking, deep, intelligent, terrifying, that simply we were not able to assimilate what we saw.This is not a usual horror movie. Is extremely psychological. Some days after watching the movie i was under the influence of this feeling: a kind of unusual fear, which lies deeply at the bottom of our subconscious . Ancestral, ancient fear. In order to cause this feeling, the director conceived a claustrophobic atmosphere, highly mysterious and disturbing: spiral staircases, shadows, opening and closing doors, intense and visceral soundtrack full of subliminal sounds, and most important: an intelligent and totally different plot from what we've seen so far.It is also a story about karma and it's remuneration. The discovery of who we really are. Fate.10/10

Angel Heart is a horror mystery film that features Mickey Rourke,Lisa Bonet and legendary actor,Robert De Niro. It was adapted from the novel entitled Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg.Written and directed by Alan Parker,the story was set in the 1950's wherein a Brooklyn private eye who was hired to locate a missing pop singer.As the investigator tries to solve the mystery,it turns out that anyone who has a clue to the mystery has come up dead.As always,the critically acclaimed novel has a better story in the book as compared to the movie.But nevertheless,it was still worth the view considering that the cast involved provided a good performance from Rourke,De Niro and surprisingly Bonet.Added to that,it was twisty, erotic and definitely splendid.Too bad that it is under-appreciated by movie goers. Give it a chance and it would not be surprising that one may find it an unpopular gem.