Don't waste your time

Rating: 1/10 (16 May 2002)

This one is really a disappointment. The director must have thought: mix some ingredients like "old and lonely house with a lot of fog around" + "nervous mother" + "strange servants" + "darkness" and I'll get a blockbuster... But it doesn't work, because these are all stereotypes. The only stress I got from this movie was because of it's stupidity - there's no logic. Why don't they all leave the house if they are so afraid? Why is the mother not going to a doctor with their children who both have this strange disease? --- The only answer can be: because then there's no plot for a movie. The acting of Nicole Kidman fits the movie: overdone... All in all I must say that it's a waste of time to watch it. The best thing about it is the darkness, so you don't have to watch every ridiculous detail.