A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and the swamps of Louisiana and its seedy underworld of voodoo.
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This was a great movie for me. Why? Because I've only seen it once and 20 years later I still remember the details and the disturbing impact it had on me.On the night of viewing I went to bed and had nightmares as a result of this movie.Alan Parker is one of the great directors. Rourke is a great actor. The rest of the cast including De Niro were excellent but, unlike Parker and Rourke, they were replaceable.The horror of this movie is not revealed until the climax, which makes it different to the standard fare and puts it well into the A category.The plot of a sleazy private detective being hired by a creepy and somewhat malevolent client to track down a debtor who has disappeared is soon revealed to be a mere vehicle designed to unveil the real story. What we are left with is a shocking and hellish view of the world as seen through the eyes of a psychopath.For Parker, this was an even better film than Midnight Express. For Rourke, this was better than any of his films - far better than The Wrestler or Barfly
One of the most original movies, a masterfully crafted noir with a constant sensation of impeding doom creeping from scene to scene and a hell of a plot twist. Obviously Mickey Rourke's best role. De Niro is exceptional as always. But as it always happens with true cinematic art, everything and everyone in this film takes its place and binds in one of the most original twists shot in the big screen.
Movie is created in late 80's they showed time of 50's and I watched in 2016 but director have done very good job with it. Still those movies which are created now and showing the old time are very similar to this movie. They used two great actors Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro but story more revolve around mickey. One thing they are showing is very irritating that is Robert's nails again and again they are showing it except that everything is good. So, movie starts with mickey and he is private detective, Robert is his client and gave him the work to find the missing person. Than mickey started his search and try contact everyone who knows him and he found out that guy is related to dark magic also. Who so he contacted is getting killed than he got scared to much. After sometime he found out that his client is Lucifer the demon and he is here to take him down to hell and that guy whom he is searching was himself. He lost his memory 12 year ago living under some other name and he was killing everyone by instruction of the demon. This movie is full of suspense and movie is little slow. If you are fan of mickey you will like this movie. Robert de niro has very less role.
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.
