Read the Empire Movie review of Angel Heart. A diabolical treat with Rourke and De Niro in fine...

The ultimate descent into hell in a thriller that mesmerises and intrigues at every turn.

Even if it may be a specious work at its core, Angel Heart still proves a mightily absorbing mystery, a highly exotic telling of a small-time detective's descent into hell, with Faustian theme, heavy bloodletting and pervasive grimness.

The termitic meat of this Faustian exercise sits trapped under multiple, calcified layers of narrative and visual inanity.

A first-person Faustian detective novel presents quite a problem to the screenwriter, and Parker's alterations to William Hjortsberg's Falling Angel slacken the

After everything is all over and the dust has settled and the blood has dried, it is possible to unsort the plot of "Angel Heart" and see that it's really