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Taking Lives (2004)
Lame
This could have been so much better. Actually it is not at all difficult to guess who is the bad guy since there are not many people introduced. If you didn't know it in the first hour, you do no actually care for the genre at all.
With all the lame action going on (surprise factor in the elevator was ZERO, it was SOOOO obvious) I was ready to give this a 4 star rating but even the casting was terrible. (a top female in a remote place - are we really to believe this?) A strong 3 out of 10 tops it I guess.
The fake pregnancy was a nice touch and the scare factor in Martin's secret place was top notch though.
It's a shame for the stars involved.
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Lame plot
I have started with the book. I figured out roughly what happened as soon as the author seemed to take much pain to show Helene as a terrible mother. I went through one third of the book and I was really p*ssed off by how they were only following red herrings. So, to save time, I decided to watch the movie instead.
And I thought the book was bad! Patrick with his irritating voice, the role of the aunt was cast to someone a generation older than her husband, the change in the Cheese line etc.
I admit I didn't see everything coming but I was sure for the whole length of the story that someone took the child for her own good. So it was useless and irritating to have the whole drug/gang story in the middle that actually took up the bulk of what was happening.
A huge disappointment.
Across the Hall (2009)
A movie about cheating... the audience
I saw it. I loved the cinematography and the acting was decent, too. Also, I didn't think it was unnecessarily slow. But the second half of the story, especially the ending ruins everything.
There is a twist in the story which is quite nice. Yes, there is only one twist, and it happens in the first half of the movie. The one at the end is not a twist at all, it's just an easy way for the writer to escape a situation while achieving an illusion of being clever. He is not. The story is not. It's just an insult to the intelligence to the audience. It's meant to hide the countless errors, inconsistence, plot holes and unnecessary scenes and subplots.
It is a shame that the horribly lousy screenplay ruins an otherwise beautifully shot and excellently played movie.
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Overrated
I really am amazed to see how a cheap trick in a movie has such a great effect on people.
I only watched this movie because in a review of The Orphanage I have read a vague hint of resemblance with this film and The Others. That was enough for me to figure out what the "great twist" was about - in the first few minutes.
-SPOILER BELOW-
As soon as Osment said "I see dead people", I thought Willis could have as well replied like "Like me?"
Yes, the "twist" was that cheap and predictable. And the rest was just inconsistent storytelling. Both The Orphanage and The Others are great movies, your money is better spent on those.