Truly Dreadful!

Rating: 3/10 (19 June 2008)

I was slightly reserved about going to see this film after watching other examples of M. Nights work. The Village and Lady In The Water were both simply awful.
However, I was hoping that this latest outing would bring back the greatness of Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. Unsurprisingly, it was not to be.
Unfortunately, all I was given was a poorly directed mess of a movie with 2D characters I couldn't care less about. The problem that is blighting many recent horror films.
The acting was absolutely atrocious, no emotion, no feeling, nothing. Wahlbergs performance was at best, terrible. Zooey Deschanel was laughable in her cringingly lacklustre role. The best way to describe all of the performances in this film is by calling them wooden. No-one stood out and even characters with precious little screen time acted like they couldn't be bothered.
The dialogue was simply inexplicable, some of the lines spoken in the film were jaw-droppingly abysmal and it wasn't scary, not one scene of this mess was in the least bit horrifying. Though the UK version being cut probably didn't help matters.
The premise of the story was brilliant and could've been done successfully, but this is a complete sham of a movie and I wish I had thought with my head instead of my heart.
Terrifyingly awful.