Slow to develop to a disappointing payoff

Rating: 4/10 (8 September 2002)

I'll begin by stating that I enjoyed the "Sixth Sense" and "Unbreakable." I did not enjoy this. The movie is tediously slow. There are however more fake scares than a "Friday the Thirteenth" movie, a tired ploy when overdone, as here. The screams at those by my fellow theatergoers, however, were the only things keeping me awake through this "thriller". I kept looking at my watch through this interminable snorefest, hoping I would be rewarded for staying awake with a big payoff. The "payoff," to use that word loosely was so lame and hackneyed as to be preposterous. 4/10