Totally amazing...

Rating: 10/10 (18 August 2001)

This movie was absolutely incredible. Nicole Kidman is amazing in it, but what else is new? Fionnula Flanagan ('Waking Ned Divine') also gave a chilling performance, as did Eric Sykes and Elaine Cassidy (Who, having virtually no lines, superbly managed to make you even jumpier throughout the movie just by looking at her frightened facial expressions) The two that surprised me the most were, of course, the children. According to the IMDB, this was a first movie for both Alakina Mann and James Bentley, but they seemed like Hollywood veterans up on the screen. Both are wonderful actors and adorable kids. This movie really brought back the feel of films as they were long ago, you know? I mean, yes, it takes place in 1945. But there was no gore, which I think made it about a billion times better than those movies that people think are so phenomenal because they show some dead people. Don't get me wrong, I liked The Sixth Sense. I've heard a lot of people compare The Others to it, but honestly- The Others is even better. Although, The Others is definitely the same as The Sixth Sense in that they both need to be seen a few times for you to really understand every detail. I've already seen it twice and am going back again this week. An utterly chilling movie. Probably the first to ever make me so frightened that I literally began to shake. I give it two very enthusiastic thumbs-up!