After the tragic loss of his wife battling the forces of darkness, Gabriel is persuaded to rejoin his former team of demon hunters traveling from relatively obscurity in America to the deep unknown regions of Europe.

When it comes to war movies between angels, demons and hybrids, we can throw a feather in the air and get to name a ton of options. However, this doesn’t stop creators of new fictional worlds to develop stories that may entertain the masses. Angels Fallen (2020) is a new option for 2020.

In Angels Fallen, we have Gabriel (Houston Rhines) a retired demon hunter who, since the death of his wife, spends his days drunk and playing pool in dive bars. After having a small confrontation with a demon and his henchmen, Gabriel is visited by Michael (Michael Teh), a former workmate, who wants to recruit him to rescue four fallen angels that must return to their place of origin. After convincing Gabriel, other members are recruited to embark themselves to Europe where the angels have landed. There, they will face frenemies and their fates to get the job done.

Angels Fallen presents a fast, entertaining, and sometimes a bit funny, plot. The viewer may find some similarities or feel familiar with the format that it handles since it resembles, at times, television series such as the short-lived Midnight, Texas and Grimm, as well as at other times it seems to take elements at a low-budget scale of the Blade franchise and Constantine.

The movie is not bad, even though sometimes it looks like some of the jokes are pretty much forced. A worthy hilarious moment is when the main protagonist fights a possessed doll which obviously is being moved around by the actor and later, after the doll is captured, one of the characters decides to cage and put the well-known Hannibal Lecter half-mask on its face. The main problem is the ending; it’s abrupt and leaves more questions that might make the viewer feel unsatisfied. It has a nice twist that could’ve been built-up for a future sequel but it seems that the writer had other plans or probably got bored with their own idea and scrapped the original ending to make way for a spin-off. Also, acting wise, it starts strong, but midway it gets basic as stale emotions are introduced after the third act.

In a world where good and evil are in constant battle to dominate humanity, Angels Fallen arrives with an interesting proposal that starts well but ends up confusing with an outcome of slopes that never paid off because they weren’t developed from the beginning. It was a good attempt but, unfortunately, the darkness wins by eliminating the original timeline of the plot.