   There, under the tutelage of Father Xavier (Ciarán Hinds), he
is encouraged to pay Father Lucas a visit. An old hand at this
type of thing, Lucas allows Matthew to observe as he treats a
number of possessed individuals -- namely, a pregnant teenage
girl (Marta Gastini) -- and casts a fair amount of doubt on
whether or not each occurrence can be chalked up strictly to
science. And Hopkins, at least early on, is good in the movie,
better than he's been in some time (mind you, hardly any of us
saw 'The City of Your Final Destination,' but compared to 'The
Wolfman' and that Woody Allen flick, this resembles progress).
He brings just enough warmth to the role, that of the occasional
skeptic who's encountered enough phenomena to keep his faith in
check, and his built-in gravitas serves him well enough once
required to intensely recite Italian and Latin.  O'Donoghue,
pretty and prone to pouting, seems appropriately outmatched by
the veteran of stage and screen, but his character is mostly
defined by flashback tra