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Old 07-05-2005, 11:48 PM
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Dont read if you havent seen it. I think its worth a rent though bc its still good.

SPOILERS****lots of them
My review of this film is that its good but with a big flaw.... Its predictable because most film buffs seen this multiple personality outcome in a ton of movies. Its been done a lot in the past few years... I dont have a problem with it but this movie gave WAY TOO many clues. From the trailer, i thought it was a ghost movie but then I saw all these clues and I knew the outcome after 35 mins. They should have given less clues... We knew it wasnt gonna be the neghbor bc that would make little sense or the little girl bc she couldnt do all that work. How about make the audience think that it could be a possible ghost? Lights flickering, slammed doors or something to that effect that charlie did. They should have done something like that. Thats my only problem with this movie...
Good aspects of this film: plot is good even though predictable. Nice ending.... Good acting.... I know lot of people bashed De Niro and Fanning.... I think we were all just spoiled by seeing De Niro play such unique and interesting characters from Goodfellas and one of my favs "Cape Fear"... He played this movie's role just fine. He was widow husband with a child so ofcourse, I wouldnt expect him to be as rememberable as his past unique characters that he played... As for Dakato, Im not gonna bash a little girl's acting ability because I actually liked her in this role and Man on Fire. In this role, her character called for an emotionless little girl with a blank stare and she played that well... She was traumatized so I cant expect a talkative and happy little girl. By the way, the 4 alternate endings were pretty good but the original worked the best. Also, this movie used some scare tactics in which the lights went off and made it pitch dark... Why dont more movies do that? Its a good way to creep people out. Im talking about the basement scene.
I give it a 7.5/10....... it could have been higher if it wasnt so predictable.
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