Amazing

Rating: 10/10 (14 September 2002)

With rare exceptions, thrillers these days are utter garbage. I wasn't expecting much from this one but boy, was I surprised! This was the first movie I've ever seen to actually send chills down my spine. Everything is done beautifully in order to create a genuine scary atmosphere. It doesn't use cheap tricks to be scary, it takes its time to build a good story and bring the audience into it. And I haven't even mentioned the ending yet. I guess all I have to say is that it took me a while before I was able "got over" what I had seen and get up and get on with my life. I went to see this film without knowing anything about it except that it was a thriller staring Nicole Kidman. Now I realize how lucky I was for that because it made the experience even more intense. And yes, this was even better than The Sixth Sense, which is a saying a lot.