There’s a hole in this thar movie!
So the kid sees soon-to-be-dead people? Mostly dead? Slightly alive? Que? Little boy in this movie: you are no Haley Joel Osment.
Freakiness/Weirdness is there, but the first not as much. And there really isn’t much “scariness”…it’s mostly a longggg bit of atmosphere broken up by scenes; tedious in the middle.
I don’t buy the drama or the characters so much, probably because of the quality of the writing. And acting. Not horrid, but…not A-list.
After it seems over: The rest seems plastered on, thrown in because it still wasn’t good enough, a lame attempt at more suspense “action”.
With all that said, kudos to the director for making it watchable and semi-enjoyable. I’m sure it wasn’t easy.
To all the critics that don’t “understand” the movie: I think you misuse the word “understand”. I understand it, I just think parts of it exist for no real reason, explained or otherwise. It’s just someone’s attempt at a scary movie, that’s all. And they had to pad around it and make it more “mysterious” to achieve anything at all.
But it’s not worth all the work. Maybe it could’ve been a dark, creepy X-File. But it wasn’t.
Grade: C