Not at good as I'd hoped, but better than I expected

Rating: 7/10 (7 August 2009)

It started very strongly in the set-up scenes, giving a delightfully freaky introduction (though not terribly much). It followed up with some refreshingly gory disaster incidents, too.. The score was nearly perfect, but tried too hard towards the middle-end to pile on the tension. This could spoil the mood for some, as it did for me. In fact that, and the lunatic brandishings by Mr Cage with his shiny revolver, were almost all that spoilt this for me... And perhaps the very last visual before the credits rolled, too.
I can't claim to have an in-depth knowledge of the source material from which the last quarter or so of this movie was based. That said, the smattering of my knowledge that relates directly to the visuals in that section left me quite liking what I saw. (This is me trying to tell you nothing, if you haven't seen it yet). In fact, I think that those images probably bumped it up a point on my 1-10 scale. It will undoubtedly have an opposite effect for many others though, I suspect.
Oh, and it's also a really predictable movie... But a fairly nicely done one at that..