Very Good ...

Rating: Null/10 (31 July 2004)

... if you like MNS-genre movies - dark, moody, psychological, paranormal dramas.
Great story telling, music, art-direction, deliberate subtleties take you to where the story is happening. It is not a horror movie, but marketed that way to set you up for the twist. He could have spent a little more time on the trade-offs these people made - fear, innocence, renunciation. A few more fear-factor scenes (the impact of the ones in the movie got lost as we have seen them in the previews already), a few flash-back scenes of the tragedies in the people's lives that drove them to this, with these the movie would have been more complete.
Overall, it did lack the depth and impact that Signs had, which I think is his best yet. But, it is way above the ordinary fare you see in Hollywood. MNS fans will like it quite a bit.