what potential!

Rating: 6/10 (17 October 2011)

Honestly I loved this movie, it was terrific and entertaining however it is considered to be a horror movie and at that it is considered to be one of the greatest horror movies, that made me think differently. First off I think that this movie had a great script, superb scenery, and near perfect acting; but there are also three things wrong that I see with this movie that could have been fixed: The musical score which is, nowadays, detrimental to a movie. The musical score in this film was horrendous, because of it every 'jump' scene in the movie was completely faked and the chase scene(s) lost value. The second thing is that the acting can sometimes be seen as overdone, yes I understand that shrieks of terror are supposed to have an impact but please don't over do it (cough cough, Shelly Duvall). And this is a minor thing but Jack Nicholson character wasn't very believable in the beginning, in my eyes he could ONLY be seen as crazy, other than that he was great. and the last thing is: loose ends. Yea there's a few things that should have been tied up such as the mystery behind room 213 and what the hell those two little girls where and why the boy 'suddenly' became possessed. I get that there's a certain amount of build up required for a movie but please don't put random crap in and then just not explain it. All in all, watch it. Its a good movie but keep in mind it does have some MAJOR flaws.