Excellent acting, very good story

Rating: 8/10 (22 June 2003)

Nicole Kidman and Fionnula Flanagan were both excellent in this movie. The story was quite good, but the interaction between their characters made the movie for me. I never paid much attention to Nichole Kidman until just recently. I guess it was because she was married to Tom Cruise who, for the most part, I consider to be just an awful actor. I was wrong to discount her acting ability because of their association. Still, I can't see what she ever saw in him and I'm not surprised that it's over between them.

As far as other people's comments about the story being a rip-off of the Sixth Sense, I feel that kind of thinking is ridiculous. Both movies where very good and I enjoyed them equally (maybe the Sixth Sense a bit more.) It never even crossed my mind until I read some of the other IMDB comments. Why can't people just allow themselves to be entertained without being so negative and looking for fault with everything? They remind me of the people that used to write letters to the editors of the Superman and Batman comic books when I was a kid, that were always trying to point out errors. They just can't allow themselves to be happy.