Surprisingly good

Rating: 8/10 (27 April 2002)

I was very skeptical about this one. The trailer looked like this was another boring movie the likes of "The Haunting", and boy did I not want to see something like that again. But somehow my friend convinced me to go see it and I'm really glad I did.
It was the perfect movie for a rainy Friday night in April.
To begin with, this movie probably contains the best performance delivered by Nicole Kidman. She is very believable and was a perfect choice. The two young actors were even better. Is it these magical and brilliant thrillers("Sixth sense", "Unbreakable") that bring the best out of children actors, or is it just my imagination. Anyway, a brilliant movie that can easily be compared to Shyamalan's "Sixth sense", especially the ending part, but in my opinion a very different movie. I consider the comparison to be flattering, since "Sixth sense" is well, an amazing and unprecedented movie experience, and "The others" produces a similar atmosphere, but it ends there. This movie takes its own path, and it does so very successfully. To make a horror movie without any blood, simply by playing with sound and light is extraordinary, and I realized it only after I read a review by a great Slovene film critic. Great, great acting, a thrilling and exciting story and of course a brilliant ending make this one of the best movie of 2001 and Alejandro Amenábar passed his first Hollywood movie making experience with flying colors. Almost. 8/10