The Actors Were Too Good for this Movie

Rating: 2/10 (20 February 2012)

I could not fault Daniel Radcliffe's performance. I was pleased to find that only minutes into this movie, I was able to forget any idea of him as a re-hashed Harry Potter. The other actors were also quite good.
The problem was that this had to be one of the laziest, lack-luster excuses for a screenplay ever devised, coupled with crappy special effects. Tacky gimmicks such as volume-cranked creepy music were used in an attempt to build suspense. Then when the suspense music was at it's loudest--a cheap, cheesy apparition would fly out of nowhere, shrieking and flying at the camera. Said apparition looked like a rabid Muppet rip-off.
To add to the pain of the whole experience was the unbelievably glacial pace.
Do yourself a favor, and don't even waste time on this dreck once it comes out on DVD/BlueRay.