Clever

Rating: 8/10 (23 August 2001)

SPOILER ALERT!!!!! Although I am no Siskel and Ebert, I gave this movie an 8. The writing of this movie was brilliantly written and was undoubtedly portrayed from the opposite side and/or "Other" side. It was suspenseful, yet boring if you can understand that. The mom (mum) (Nicole Kidman) was one of most uptight, dead ghost I've ever seen in my life. I mean, get a grip, lay down already. I guess she was the ghost with the most! The daughter definitely had issues and the son, if not already dead, would have definitely needed therapy and a good psychiatrists couch for the rest of his life. I pretty much figured out what was going on during the first 15 minutes of the film and I really was not surprised. It was kind of stupid that the husband would come back and be sitting on the bed right across from the mirror and have no reflection, and in the same instance, in the attic, Nicole Kidman has a reflection and they are both dead. In any event, this movie left a lot to be desired. It was ok for what is was, but it was nothing like I expected. I think "The Book of the Dead" was the scariest part of the movie along with that extremely pale little boy.