Meaningless and unconvincing

Rating: 6/10 (26 November 2008)

Is this a sci-fi movie? Or a horror movie? Or just only the story of a psychopathic boy prone to hallucinations? In first case it's poor in terms of invention and imagination; in second case it's not scary enough to be good; and in third case it's not bad but not good either because just only ordinary. It looks like an ambitious movie which didn't come up to its director's expectations because he is no David Lynch or Stanley Kubrick or even Steven Spielberg. The final scenes give us the impression that the movie's director didn't know how to end the story imbroglio into which he had got and then imagined some meaningless and unconvincing sequences in a Halloween atmosphere. It's the case of quoting here an old Portuguese proverb which says: this shoemaker shouldn't go beyond the slipper.