I WANT MY MONEY BACK!

Rating: 1/10 (30 July 2004)

This is one of the biggest Hollywood crimes in a long time. The marketing department sold a product it did not deliver on. All the previews and build up was for a suspense thriller, and what we got was a half-assed love story and a twist that comes in the middle of the movie! There is a minute amount of suspense in the beginning but halfway through it we find out there's no need to fear ... whatever (don't want to spoil it for anyone though that wouldn't be a crime). The ending is just ridiculous and laughable. Night should change his name to M. Night Shameful until he redeems himself from this! He ripped us off! In the previews we hear the "creatures" breaking through the outside of the house in one scene in the trailers, but in the movie ... nothing! Just breathing. Further, the marketing told us that this was about these creatures but they are such a minor part in this film that you find yourself forgetting about them from time to time. Someone called this story disjointed, and that's a good explanation. Shame on Night and Touchstone's marketing team ... this should be prosecutable and somehow I think it should be: they call it false advertising. Night and Hollywood better start learning to respect the audience, because we're getting fed up with this crap!