Only by the standards of yesteryear does this movie stand out. By contemporary standards the movie is, well, silly.

Rating: 5/10 (8 March 2008)

In no particular order;
1) This is so very similar to North by NorthWest. Suave man sweeps helpless woman off her feet and saves her. And both women are, well, unlike any woman I've ever known. Both kinds a strange.
2) It was disheartening how utterly helpless the women were in this movie. If it wasn't for Mitchell, they'd have all been killed. Like when Melanie goes upstairs, opens the door and whoosh! all the birds attack. What does she do? Close the door behind her so she can't get out.
3) And how about when Melanie tells the schoolteacher, "Don't send the children out for recess, there are hundreds of crows out there!" What does the teacher do? Sends the children out anyway, albeit it to go home.
4) Why on earth did they decide on a 24 or so year difference between Mitchell (35?) and his "little sister" (11) ??
5) This movie is a poor man's "Jaws," just like NNW was a poor man's "Fugitive."
Give me the modern stuff any day.