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Summary: You're All Mad
Review: Classic thriller? Hitch would have enjoyed it? Oh My God are you people out of touch. This was a slow, dull, verbose, convoluted, trashy, wannabe adult thriller with a bit of style, no substance, pregnant pauses of triplet proportions and a few moments that make you jump out of your seat. What is most annoying about this film is that the first forty minutes, in which we are shown the next-door neighbours as red herrings. This would be acceptable if their strange circumstances were later explained. This large portion of the film is totally unnecessary, boring and there for seemingly unknown reasons. What is further frustrating is the ending does not belong in the same movie as the rest. After a good bathroom scene we are treated (?) to a series of calamities where good, well-respected actors are placed in a very bad scream-clone. All in all a flat out disappointment, and one better left off your dvd shelf. What Lies Beneath??? Not very much!!!
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Summary: This One Should Have Stayed Beneath
Review: I cannot begin to describe my disappointment with this film! What potential it HAD!!! And then - the END came - what a joke of an ending. Good twists and turns throughout, but a thoroughly IGNORANT ending (don't worry I won't give it away for those of you determined to see ignorance at work)!! Kudos to both Pfeifer and Ford (though he's no where near as good as Michelle in this suspense flic)! The DVD is pretty solid too, with features and such. In Conclusion - a decent rental, when you've run out of other choices, but NOT one to add to the dvd/video collection.
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Summary: An fine suspense supernatural thriller.
Review: The Plot:Claire Spencer(Michelle Pfeiffer) has an loving husband named Normal Spencer(Harrison Ford), thier wonderful daughter and her true best friend(Diana Scarwid).When claire, she thinks, that she seeing ghostly images and hearing strange mysterous voices in thier home. Her husband thinks she coming out of her imagination. She hear voices in her head, trying to tell her something, when she finds some of it, it goes deep to the truth but her husbamd thinks that she going mad and starting to be afaird of her imagination but she doesnt know the spirit wants and she will do anything to help the spirited and the truth what happens to the lost soul.DVD`s has a sharp anamorphic widescreen(2.35:1) transer. DTS 5.1 Digital Surround is an strong and nautral sound with deep bass with 1. Lfe. Also Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround and Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround is included also. An good running commentary track by the producers-Steve Starkey and Jack Rapke and also co-produced and director-Robert Zemeckis(Forrest Gump, Contact). One of the best performance by Pfeiffer, she gives an strong performance in this one. Change of pace from Harrison Ford, he`s well played in this one. The film has a good dark sense of humour and some true good scares. One of the top winners of last year Box Office. An fine entertaining film and good music creppy score by Alan Silvestri(Predator). Grade:A-. Panavision.
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Summary: B movie rehash
Review: I note that the review above thinks this was a pretty good movie. I thought it was awful. the whole movie is dark,like those cheap movies where you can't see anything because the budget was too low to pay for special effects, and they substitute obscurity. There is also the cheap silence-followed-by-loud-noise effect, which is irritating, and had me fiddling constantly with the volume. What are these actors doing in the plotless rehash of other movies?
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Summary: WHAT LIES BENEATH! OH YEAH! a ROBERT ZEMECKIS film
Review: This movie is excellent. It way outdoes that piece of trash Hollow Man(Smelly Man as far as I'm concerned). Congrats to Rob Zemeckis (the director of: Cast Away(Which I want to see), Contact, Forest Gump, Back to the Future 1, 2, and 3, Who Framed Roger Rabit, and Romancing the Stone), for this wonderful piece of work. I can't wait to see what he does after this(besides Cast Away). This movie has it all, suspense, humor, great casting, great story, great special effects, way cool cinematography, and best of all, a GREAT director to bring it all together into a movie. Michelle Pheifer is excelent. Harrison Ford(Han Solo and Indiana Jones here) is excellent. I have to reccommend this. This is a great piece of filmmaking here. Again, congrats to Rob Zemeckis, you have yet again made another hit, and I hope for many more to follow.
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Summary: Scared me
Review: It probably helped that I saw this movie in the theater in the middle of Vermont surrounded by mostly black forest, but I loved the film. I was never much of a thriller watcher, but this movie got me interested. I loved the timing of everything. I probably would have been more skeptical of the film as others here if I were more experienced in suspense movies, but if you don't try to figure out what's going to happen and just let yourself get lost in the film, I think anyone will enjoy it.
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Summary: Deep
Review: This movie really made think about what really goes on in the spirit world. If it is true that if someone killed unjustly or before it was their time to die, does that spirit remain trapped between worlds to find peace and closure to their unjust deaths?
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Summary: Could have been better.
Review: As a 21 year fan & collector of Harrison Ford I used to be first in the door opening day for his movies. That stopped with Random Hearts. I did not for this one either. I am glad it was a hit for him, but he deserves better material. Good extras & picture quality on the disc though.
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Summary: A mixed bag
Review: First for the positives in this movie. It is scary and does hold your attention. Also it has great star power with Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford. The setting, with a beautiful lake and Vermont mountains in the distance, is breathtaking. The negatives include some moments in which the film seems to fragment and go off on an unexplained tangent and special effects which are never explained other than as mental aberrations on the part of the characters. Pfeiffer is very engaging as a woman who suspects that her house is being haunted by the ghost of a woman who has died mysteriously. She first thinks that it is a neighbor who has been killed by her husband. The viewer never receives an explanation for the neighbor woman's angst and anger towards her husband which has led Pfeiffer to suspect a murder. The suspense sometimes goes on too long and the dramatic effect is a bit strained at times. Also the "ghostly happenings" are never really explained. However, this is a reasonably entertaining movie and will appeal to a wider range of people than most suspense films.
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Summary: Forget the other reviews, this film is great!
Review: This is not Hitchcock, but it is a great film of that genre by an excellent director, Zemeckis (Forest Gump, Back to The Future) with a great cast, Ford and Pfifer. It's not any of their best works, but a great film. Ford is excellent in this role and really follows through on his performance from Presumed Innocent. This is really worth your time and money.
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