Mediocre and slightly unsatisfactory

Rating: Null/10 (29 May 2006)

This movie was creepy and not as bad as some I have seen, but still it was far from what I call a "good" horror movie. It was basically just about a boy who sees dead people, and the twist at the end was rather confusing.
The actors are all a bit depressing, and maybe the movie is supposed to be like that or something, but M. Night Shyamalan has made much better movies than this, and I think the ghost scenes were all a little too exaggerated.
This movie would have worked a lot better if it was a psychological thriller, not with supernatural events, like it could have turned out that Cole's condition might have had something to do with his mind, like he thinks that he is seeing dead people, or something like that, something similar to what Gothika is based on.
This movie is OK to watch, and can get a little scary in places, but I still think it could have been a lot better without all these supernatural events actually being for real, it would have helped me to enjoy it a lot more, and the ending could have been a much better one, for example Malcolm helps Cole but realises that he's not actually dead and then gets reconciled with his wife or something. (I know this sounds confusing, but bear with me because I'm not a very good critic!). Anyway,I would like it if he talked with his wife at the end and then got reconciled with her, and it ended out that he's not dead. I would have liked that much better.
OK - 4/10 stars but I've seen much better