It's all atmosphere

Rating: 6/10 (9 April 2011)

This film is good, but it's all atmosphere. You need to get into the feel of it to enjoy it. If you don't like the atmosphere you don't like the film, it's as simple as that. I personally found it quite boring in places due to me not getting into the atmosphere. They took ages to say things or do things, like in the scene where the boy gives the father at the funeral the tape.
The acting of course is brilliant, you can't help but love the strange boy. He seems so innocent yet all the time is seeing these horrible things that come across quite scarily when you don't understand what's going on initially. Bruce Willis is good but I feel sometimes all he does is whisper and look depressed. I suppose that is his role but he could have put a bit more presence into it.
At for the plot it's great but takes a while to get going. The huge twist at the end I never saw coming because of the way they carefully interwove Willis' character into scenes. I never suspected it for one moment. So yeah, atmosphere but not much else.