A relative bore ...

Rating: Null/10 (11 August 2001)

THIS DOES CONTAIN A SPOILER ...
I just came from seeing "The Others," and frankly, I thought the film was relatively boring. Even though it's advertised as a thriller, the plot never truly grabbed me as an audience member. I didn't hold my breath in anticipation of what would happen to the characters in the next scene because the plot never nurtured an emotional bond between me and any of them. Also, the film never made me suspend my sense of disbelief; I felt like I was watching Nicole Kidman run through a big, dark house after failing to take a few doses of Prozac and using a set of hot rollers. I must say the young actors who played Anne and Nicholas were pretty good, but their performances alone couldn't redeem this film. In the end, all I kept thinking was that this story was better told in "The Sixth Sense."