Tries too much, achieves too little

Rating: 7/10 (29 July 2009)

OK so first of all, this movie has the effect of keeping you glued to your chair while your watching. But if we look at it from a critical perspective we can see that it isn't that great.
The films tries too accomplish several things, but in the end it fails. It tries to be both subtle and direct, but it ends up as being too direct and too over-the-top (too much unnecessary gore). It somehow tries to merge religious and scientific ideas, but it does not finish the job. The ideas presented are too blunt, too rough to fully understand and swallow. Too much Clive Barker and too little Lovecraft, if you know what i mean.
So what is the result? A have baked film, with a lot of gore, a couple of scary moments, a wide range of scientific and religious ideas (taken from horror writers) that don't mix very well, which starts out excellent but ends up as being over-the-top, and concluded with a weird ending.
It's not a bad film, it will entertain, but it feels like it could have been so much more.