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Summary: The Best movie out today.
Review: This is the best movie I think Nicole Kidman plays in. The content is clean. The language is clean. No curse words at all. As a christian I am amazed that Hollywood can produce a movie without a curse word in it as well as no sexual content.
This is a great movie to set and watch again and again.
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Summary: Not The Best, Not the Worst
Review: From the beginning, it wasn't a truly captivating movie. The Others tries to be a "Sixth Sense" story remade. Not that it was glaringly apparent from the start, but at one point you know whats coming. There were also confusing moments that didnt coincide with the reaminder of the film. Also, the fact that God is protrayed as "non-existent" or "uncaring" did not bode well with my conscious.
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: Amenabar is an extremely talented director. Anybody who liked this film, try his previous ones, Thesis and Open Your Eyes.
And by the way, someone said that Sixth Sense was much better and with a better ending, well... to me this is a much more intelligent and better crafted film. Just brilliant.
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Summary: stunning chiller
Review: Alejandro Amenabar's THE OTHERS is a stunning new variation on the tried-and-true genre of "haunted house" movies. With a small but talented ensemble cast, the film delivers a huge impact no matter how many times you watch it.Grace (Nicole Kidman - MOULIN ROUGE, TO DIE FOR) is a young housewife who lives a life of secluded drabness with her two children (Alakina Mann and James Bentley) in a huge island mansion. Awaiting the return of her husband from the war, her life is ruled by the fact that her two children are hyper-sensitive to light, and even the smallest chink of daylight could mean death or severe illness. Entet three new servants (Fionnula Flanagan, Eric Sykes and Elaine Cassidy) who offer their services. However, they seem to know more about the strange history of the house than they make out, and Grace is determined to discover the strange secrets of the forboding mansion and its grounds. This is one of those rare films where the shocks are provided by pure atmosphere and not by gory, blood-soaked violence. Just like THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and the original POLTERGEIST, it sets new standards for the noble thriller genre. Also starring Renee Asherton. (Single-sided, dual-layer disc).
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Summary: Nicole Kidman: an Actress with a capital "A"
Review: "The Others" is a brilliant film. It is almost Hitchcockian in its use of music and light. Watching it, I've felt the same stomach-clenching suspense and fear that I did the first time I saw "Psycho." The story is brilliant, because by giving the children extreme allergy to light, the author creates an autmosphere of a trap for the family. Extreme paleness of all the characters makes them feel eerie even before we know why, and the ending is too good to make any comparisons to other films. However, the best weapon this film has is Nicole Kidman. Over the years she's been miscast as a pretty thing that's fun to look at. In this film, her acting talents are so overwhelming, she should have gotten the Oscar for them. A lot of her acting comes not through the words she speaks (with an impeccable English accent), but through the inflections of her eyes, the intonations on her face, and the movements of her body. It is one of the fines perforamnces I've ever seen. This film will yet turn into the kind of classic that "Psycho" became.
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Summary: Awful
Review: Too predictable. A ridiculously poor effort in misdirection. Silly. Slow. Pointless. Tired. An idea that was old long, long, long before this slackard put it to film. Save your money, save your time, save yourself from this weary retread of a film.
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Summary: Forgettable
Review: Nicole Kidman is okay, but she can't save this film ultimately, with it's corny and contrived ending and howlingly bad acting. This is certainly no translation of James' "Turn of the Screw". A 60's film with Deborah Kerr, "The Innocents", the real translation, is far better and actually frightening, whereas this one sorta meanders between okay and bad. A far better recent horror movie would be "Session 9", with David Caruso, probably one of the most terrifying films I've ever seen, and horror is my favorite genre.
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Summary: Don't let anyone spoil the ending for you!
Review: Watch this with someone else, lights off. Don't let anyone spoil this one for you - its a good twist!!!
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Summary: Superb Thriller!
Review: This film wildly illustrates what an incredible mastery of filmmaking a relatively new director like Alejandro Amenabar brings to bear on each of his productions. Previously known as the director for the provocative and memorable Spanish precursor to Tom Cruise's recent film "Vanilla Sky", here Amenabar seams together a perfectly concocted blend of sight, sound and sensation to delight and chill us in "The Others". He's aided and abetted in this marvelous cinematic effort by the superb acting of Nicole Kidmann in a no-holds-barred performance, as well as by a terrific supporting cast of relative unknowns. In addition, everything from the cinematography (that is, the way the director chooses to use the camera to further the mood and affect of the story) and the soundtrack music are all contributing elements in a tour-de-force effort that drags us along breathlessly as the awe-striking plot winds toward its date with destiny. The outlines of the basic story is seemingly simple and straight-forward, but in matter of fact is full of subtle aspects that subsequently serve to powerfully affect the direction and spin of the events that suddenly and mysteriously begin to malevolently transpire. All of it is believable, due in large part to the work of Kidmann as well as the way in which the director uses every aspect of his craft to set the dark, somber and threatening mood piece we need to work the story toward its conclusion. His use of music to add to the suspense is unusually adroit, and when we realize he has also composed the score being used, we begin to understand the degree to which his range of talents extends. This is a wonderful movie, one that employs all of the basics of terrific film making extremely well, and one which takes an ostensibly simple idea and then plays with it artfully to stretch our minds and the range of possibilities out before us in a tantalizing and yet horrifying way. It is a movie that is neither predictable nor conventional, yet it movies well within the boundaries of established traditions in such a smart and economical way that it continues to surprise and delight one long after the initial viewing. This one get two thumbs WAY UP! Enjoy!
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Summary: An Atmospheric Ghost Story That Will Forever Be A Classic!
Review: Nicole Kidman should have been nominated for an Oscar for this film (interesting that Tom Cruise was an Executive Producer). Her acting as well as every member of the cast was exceptional (the kids and Fionnula Flannagan). What a wonderful old-fashioned ghost story with a totally surprise ending only outdone by "The Sixth Sense" which preceeded it. The slow pace builds and builds brilliantly until the heart-stopping ending. Clues are interspersed cleverly and you will find yourself looking back at key scenes just the way you did with "Sixth Sense." I watched it one night and then had two friends over the next. We had a great time. A classic, cerebral ghost story that takes advantage of its sensational sound effects and well-developed atmosphere to project real goosebumps. Well done but not for mind-blown MTVers who want ACTION! and SPECIAL EFFECTS! every 40 seconds.
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