What is going on with movies these days? *SPOILER*

Rating: 1/10 (7 January 2006)

I sat in the theatre and watched this movie with people around me booing, except for the teenagers who giggled all the way through it. Personally, I could not find anything likable about these characters. Chris Wilton is shallow and stupid, and he marries into a family of even more shallow and stupid people. The dialog is all talky and on the nose, and there is too much dialog, all talking heads all the time. Nobody does anything except talk! There is no action, just talk, talk, talk. I could not find any sympathy for these characters. They evoked NO emotion in me, no empathy, nothing. I felt nothing. I felt no journey, no arc. They learned nothing, therefore, I learned nothing. Then, at the end, these random police officers come into the story, and the perspective changes abruptly to these two dumber police officers and how they deduce who killed Nola and the Landlady. Then these random ghosts of Nola and the Landlady show up-- come on? I never do understand why Chris comes to the decision he does to kill Nola. Why did he decide that? What made him decide that? What an awful thing for the director to do to me, to have the main character make a decision off camera without me to witness his thought process. I am so not buying anything in this movie. It never took me anywhere... And I desperately wanted to be taken on a journey with these people. The characters were so underdeveloped, they had no life to them. I just don't get why people liked this film. I really don't get it, unless we are all just shallow in this world today, and can identify with shallow characters on screen.