Over hyped

Rating: 2/10 (18 November 2012)

Not a bad little mystery movie but when you add the fact it was supposed to be the scariest movie of the year it falls down flat. Ethan Hawke is a good actor and always watchable but this was more like an episode of the X Files than anything else.
When The Joker started to appear it began to go downhill fast. Pretty much every plot twist and turn is obvious well before it happens and the acting was not that great. Some plot devices such as the kid having bad dreams and wandering around the house ended up pretty dull. Some of the scare attempts were so obvious to be rendered pointless.
The twist at the end was decent but by then the film was too far gone to be redeemed. Not as lamentable as Insidious but pretty dire. The hype surrounding it was not enough to save it in the end.