[crabapple]

I liked the film just fine but it was never better than the opening warm-up.

Cusack and Jackson's scene near the beginning was the best part of the film for me. Great scene. It's easy enough to use atmospherics, tricks and special effects to convince an audience that "something strange" exists, but to convey the reality of that something through acting and dialogue alone is much more difficult. I thought the scene pulled this off nicely.