Pretty lame

Rating: 1/10 (6 September 1999)

It's one of those movies in which several key characters would have to be stupid, or laughably inattentive, to behave the way they do, and in which the director repeatedly has to cut away from certain scenes and move hastily on, in the hope that we won't notice. Cheap trick. There were a couple of well-executed startles, which are always fun, and the drizzly autumnal atmosphere was just right. Bruce Willis is his usual smirky self. The little boy is very good. The "surprise" was figured out in the following order, according to the people involved: my 15-year-old-son (the movie maven in the family), right after the opening sequence; myself, about 15 minutes in; my wife, a couple of scenes before the truth comes out at the end; my 13-year-old daughter, when we explained it to her on the way out to the car.