Very disappointing

Rating: 3/10 (17 May 2014)

The only thing that I can charitably say about this film is, thank god it isn't a comic book made into a movie. Although the acting is passable, the script is wooden. I found myself wondering why fine actors like John Cusack and Ray Liotta would star in something like this, but I guess it was a job.
Although the film's story line doesn't lack imagination, it is simply not believable. For me to explain why would be to reveal the ending. Like so many movies today, this one pushes the idea that ghosts and paranormal phenomena are real and that we should believe in them.
If this film is a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock (as one commenter suggests), then all I can say is the makers pay him poor tribute. Hitchcock always grounded his films in unflinching realism. That is why he was a master. He relied only on human motivation and psychology to underpin the behavior of his characters. Nevertheless, he succeeded in chilling us to the bone without invoking the supernatural, preternatural, or any other beyond-the-natural. And the ending is total rubbish.
I give it 3/10. And a 3 solely because John Cusack and Ray Liotta are in it.