Familiar

Rating: Null/10 (31 July 2004)

Read Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix. There are many similarities between this young teen novel and this movie. Maybe I am no longer easily shocked--The Sixth Sense shocked me and I had to see it again to see "the clues" I had missed. Signs was well done and the "alien sighting" caused gasps. This movie was well acted, especially by Bryce Howard and Joaquin Phoenix. I also enjoyed the love story(?) between William Hurt and Sigourney Weaver. It is always refreshing to see a man and woman over the age of 40-something attracted to each other, instead of a much younger person. All in all, the movie was entertaining, but I thought it lacked the surprise and suspense of the two earlier movies.