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Naja

Wednesday, December 03, 2003 - 6:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
DEFINITELY worth the matinée price :) I just got home from seeing it and I have to stress one thing about it..It was genius of them to stick Robert Downey Jr. in that movie, and if you see it, you'll see what I mean. I think it's a good psycho-thriller and all the really horrible stuff was more eluded to or just briefly flashed, and it really did concentrate more on the movie theme rather than showing much gore. But there are a few jumping moments! I liked it a lot. Halle Berry was so good in it! Just one BIG thing isn't explained at all at the end, but I'll wait to talk about until someone else has seen it. Go see it :)

Hermione69

Friday, December 05, 2003 - 11:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hi Naja! It got such bad reviews that I am glad to hear another take on it. I think both Robert Downey, Jr. and Halle Berry are superb and I love suspense movies.

Naja

Friday, December 05, 2003 - 1:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Really? I hadn't heard it got bad reviews before I saw it. I only stopped by Eberts reviews to see what it was about before I went and he had given it 3 stars..He considered it "Great Trash"..LOL!

http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/2003/11/112103.html

Puttergirl

Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 3:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I enjoyed it. I was disappointed though that they didn't spend more time around the shocking discovery re: hubby, if you know what I mean. Does anyone know- was this based on a book? It seemed real familiar to me.

I didn't like the very last scene- too Sixth Sense-ish (the movie). Although it left us open for sequels- she'll become something like a ghostbuster- lol!

Naja

Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 5:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh cool, someone saw it! Yeah, that last scene left me thinking. But I concluded to something different than you did I think. Don't read rest of my post if you don't want a very minor hint of the movie and I'll put it in white text.

(I took that last scene as meaning that the "victims" weren't just women, and that was just another victim letting her know more detail. I didn't think of it as a whole 'nother story. Just more of the same story being revealed to her.)

Puttergirl

Thursday, December 11, 2003 - 3:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Naja, that's really interesting- I didn't see it that way at all. Its funny how 2 people can see the same thing and have such different interpretations. As you figured out, I thought (highlight the text):

[She would now be like the little boy in Sixth Sense... "I see dead people". I vaguely remember a line toward the end something like- once you open a door it doesn't close that easily- or something like that. But I think your idea would make for a better sequel.]

Ketchuplover

Thursday, December 11, 2003 - 4:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I agree with Puttergirl :)

Azriel
Member

08-01-2000

Saturday, February 14, 2004 - 9:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
There was entirely too much screaming in this movie. It made me jump a lot and my boyfriend has the black and blue marks on his arms to prove it.

I too wish they had got more into the background of the husband and the sheriff. There was too much running in the dark and not enough story telling.

Robert Downey, Jr.'s character was kinda blah and useless. I wish they had fleshed out that relationship more.

I did enjoy the movie, I just wish there had been a little more added to it and some of the long running/hiding scenes edited out.

Tashakinz
Member

11-13-2002

Monday, March 29, 2004 - 2:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I saw this over the weekend. It was pretty good although I would never have picked Charles Dutton to play her husband - just no chemistry there.