Time well spent???

Rating: 6/10 (3 March 2010)

I went to see this film with my Girlfriend, we tried twice, but it was sold out previously. I was really expecting great things from Martin Scorsese with this effort, as well as stellar performance from DiCaprio! At least DiCaprio "sold it" as best as anyone in Hollywood could have!
It was slightly suspenseful and a little creepy but by the time they got the note out from under the missing woman's bed... I had the plot figured out to within spitting distance! :( the first thing to start rolling through my head was," I see dead people"! well it's a bit of a new twist on a theme that worked out well in several movies in the 90's... but essentially it was no different.
I thought The fore shadowing to be extremely heavy handed as if the director was talking down to the audience, but in the directors defense as I sat outside the theater, after the movie, waiting as the hoards of patrons passed by me as they were leaving, I heard too many people saying things like," I didn't get the ending?" so perhaps Mr. Scorsese was attempting to allow a greater portion of the masses to "get it" by putting the hints etc. more in our collective faces for us see. For me it was a waiting game to see all the directors cards on the table... I should have waited for the DVD.