Dogma: B+

This movie is a mixed bag of quality. It boasts an amazingly star-studded cast from Salma Hayek to hetero life mates Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. But the acting here goes from wooden to amazing, with most of the amazing poured all over Matt and Ben.

The movie centers around two banished angels, Lokey (Matt Damon) and Bartleby (Ben Affleck), that have found a loophole that would allow them back in Heaven. The problem? It'll negate all existence! So of course the Voice-Of-God (Alan Rickman) is sent to tap the "Last Scion" (Linda Florinteno) to stop them by going where on her holy crusade? New Jersey. Yes the story is wacky and the characters even more so, and as I've mentioned before the acting (especially for Linda Florinteno and Chris Rock) is wooden at least half the movie. Luckily amazingly inventive supporting characters, from a "mute" prophet (Kevin Smith) to a muse-turned-stripper (Selma Hayek), manage to make you forget about Mrs. Florentino, at least for a few minutes.

Now on to the (I think) most important part of any movie: the writing. It's just as full of variety here as with every other element of the movie but theres just that something...probably the lack of any badness; anyways it goes from crazy shock value like lines (with the f--- word in almost every sentence), to clever, to profound monologues. It is here, at the latter, that the movie takes off. Though only two chracters get this (Matt and Ben) they handle it like they've never handled a part before. The statements are deep and sad and funny at times. Through this the angels become the main characters, protagonist and antagonist. And not the wavering, screaming flop that is Linda Florinteno