Just ok for me (spoilers)

Rating: 6/10 (4 August 2004)

6/10. Now, I'm a person that doesn't go out to haunted houses or see scary movies at midnight with the full moon out and the sounds from the movie playing full blast, and I really don't want to see scary movies. I've seen Signs and it wasn't too bad for me. I read some imdb.com posts and read there was a big twist at the end. I just wasn't sure what was going to happen.
Adrien Brody was sort of funny throughout the movie because his character is mentally retarded. It's his character that brings some comic relief to the film. Bryce Dallas Howard as Ivy sort of confused me a bit because I wasn't sure if her character was blind or not. It finally came together after awhile, but you really had to sit there and watch it. Joaquin Phoenix as Lucius was fine, but nothing too spectacular. His character was just there.
All in all, the movie was fine and there weren't too many scary scenes at all.
SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What I don't understand is how Lucius could survive a knife being sliced into his stomach and his heart. How is that really possible? And What about a blind girl finding her way through the woods by herself, getting to her destination, and getting back safely. One last point. The plot twist, I would be sad that I was being lied to when there was real civilization outside their sanctuary, and it was a better life than the one I was living