Creepy, cool and mysterious...

Rating: Null/10 (24 May 2002)

Alejandro Amenábar is going to be one to watch in the future and may we all (movie-lovers and not)wish him a long fruitful life to give us this sweet end of entertainment. For the reader who doesn't know, he is the writer/director of some other great films already rated in the tops of all time at the ripe old age of thirty (such as Abre los ojos-"open your eyes"-which so inspired and captured Cameron Crowe, writer/director of "Almost Famous" etc. etc., that he rewrote it for American audiences in "Vanilla Sky"). Not that emulation is any form of flattery or what have you...
Anyway, I'm not going to blab on to talk about the movie, but just wanted to note the originality and unique ideas that are coming out of this exciting mind. Couple a little originality with some sound solid acting and voila, we can step away from the mundane without too much of an art house feel that steps away from reality. Unless you're already jaded and watch movies like this saying "challenge me" to yourself in your seat--just try it, you'll like it!