Rating: 
Summary: waste
Review: What a waste of two excellent acting talents! This movie is dull, dull, dull. A potentially good plot was flubbed.
Rating: 
Summary: Enticing, suspensefull, and eerie-- EVERYONE should see it!
Review: This movie is great for those who really like a good mystery as well as a scary movie here or there. The best thing about it is that there is usually no thumping music building up to the next horrific scene, it happens with one giant BOOM, and scares the bejeezes outta ya! I love about this movie the complex plot... you basically have to pay attention to every single scene to fully grasp everything that follows. But it's so much fun! The ending will keep you in awe (e.g; why didn't I think of that sooner?!?!?) So take my advice, there is no gore in this film, it's just a good old fashioned suspense movie!!!!!! I LOVE IT!
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Summary: Implauisble? Of course! Entertaining? Absolutely!
Review: I missed What Lies Beneath when it first arrived in theaters, and because of some negative press, as well as the comments of some friends, I expected the worst when I popped the movie into my player. I wound up having a lot of fun with this big budget, old-fashioned thriller which is designed solely to entertain. I suspect that many of those who were disappointed by it felt that, because it has such a famous and talented director and cast, it should have served some higher purpose. Or it could be that their plot hole threshold is lower than mine, for it is true that a lot of what goes on in the movie isn't all that believable. Still, part of what drives great movie making is, frankly, the ability either to rise above or to gloss over any script deficiencies, and I think the film mainly succeeds in doing this. It has been said that What Lies Beneath became a huge hit just because it came out at time when there was little product out for adult audiences, yet it could not have become such a success if a lot of people hadn't enjoy it.Claire and Norman Spencer seem to be a very happily married couple. He is a successful doctor doing genetic research at a prestigious university in Vermont. She is a musician who seemingly put aside a promising career in order to be the perfect wife and mother. When the couple's only daughter goes off the college, Claire is left alone much of the time in their magnificent lakeside home. Her husband and her friends are worried about her for reasons that become clear later on. It turns out that they have cause to be concerned, for soon she begins to have some frightening hallucinations about a young woman who appears to be dead. When the woman next-door disappears, Claire becomes convinced that she has been murdered and begins to investigate the woman's husband. Norman becomes increasingly concerned and frightened by Claire's behavior. This is only the beginning of a mystery that takes the audience on a wild ride that questions what is real and what isn't. Are the things Claire sees real or things she imagines? Does she really see a ghost or is it a demon inside her trying to reveal a terrible truth? Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford are perfect as Claire and Norman. This role is a welcome departure, as well as a good career move, for Mr. Ford, but it is basically Ms. Pfeiffer's movie. She has never been more beautiful nor vulnerable. In the hands of a lesser actress, Claire might have come off as laughingly neurotic, but Ms. Pfeiffer magically turns her into someone we can both relate to and root for. It's a role that's tougher than it looks, and the star makes the most of it. What Lies Beneath is beautifully visualized. It is full of water imagery, water which at times acts as a force to hide the truth and, at another times, as a mirror to reflect it. This imagery doesn't make the movie any deeper, but it does make it lovely to look at. This picture recalls some of the work of Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock was the master of suspense, and, while What Lies Beneath in no way equals the best of his movies, it shares with them the idea that the ultimate goal of any good thriller is to entertain its audience. And for me, this movie did that. I suspect that some, but not all, of the criticism this movie has received may be based on a bit of intellectual snobbery. It is certainly not a work of art, but the great magic of cinema is that it can produce an infinate variety of movies. There is room in this world for all of them, and I for one like it that way, because a steady diet of any one particular type would soon become stale.
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Summary: What Lies Beneath
Review: What Lies Beneath is the most thought provoking movie ever.You won't be able to follow if you tried.If you like scary movies then this is the perfect movie for you.Allthough if you are offended by strog language, this movie is not for you.
Rating: 
Summary: Scary but full of flaws
Review: What Lies Beneath is an old fashion thriller about a house wife
Michelle Pfeiffer who's upset that her only daughter is away at college.
Now bored and lonely she starts snooping on the neighbers with envolves
some Hitchcock ripping off. Soon after she starts seeing a ghost in
her house and thinks that the guy next door killed his wife and that
the ghost is her. Her husband (Harrison Ford) who's usually sleeping or at work
when she sees the ghost, of course thinks she's losing it due to her
missing her daughter. ... What Lies Beneath is directed by Robert Zemeckis who's done Back
to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Forest Gump throws in at
least 40 false alarm boo scenes in this movie. However it is actually
scary at times, there was some scenes where it left me at the edge
of seat. The movie is more funny than scary though, critics call it
a Hitchcock rip-off but I found it to be a Hitchcock parody. A fun
thriller that you can't take too seriously. Although I somewhat liked
the film I think Zemeckis has another great movie in him and unfortunely
this wasn't it.
Rating: 
Summary: Boring
Review: A boring, mediocre "thriller", with unengaging characters, and an illogical plot. By the time you've reached the end, you really have to wonder why anybody is doing what they're doing. The conclusion is really just illogical. You'd think that expensive talent like Ford, Pfeiffer, and Zemeckis could have chosen a better script, and created a much better movie. If you want Hitchcokian thrillers, go with the originals (or even Branagh's "Dead Again", a much better thriller).
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Summary: This will be a classic one day!!
Review: I love this movie! One day this will be a classic like a Hitchcock movie. It's my favorite movie of all time. I collect Hitchcock movies, so I'm really into thrillers. This movie made me so scared in the theatres, i literally thought I was going to [throw up]. Please beleive me! You'll LOVE it! ...
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Summary: What it is about.
Review: This movie is very scary. It has many wierd things going on in it. It first starts off with Harrison Ford's wife ( I can not remember the name) having a wierd dream about someting in the water. What she decovers can put her life in danger. A girl had once mysteriously diappears and she finds clues about her death. Who killed the girl? Find out by watching this scary thriller with a surprising ending. It will surpise you and frighten you!
Rating:
Summary: Pastiche
Review: Another wanna-be Hitchock film. First-off, if you've seen the trailer for this movie, there's no point in watching it because it's given everything away. Second, there's no suspense in the silly plot. Third, it's predictable who the bad-guy is and it makes nonsense out of the entire film. Not to mention that the ending is rediculous.
Rating:
Summary: Disappointing at best
Review: I was REALLY looking forward to watching this movie. Looked really good on the previews... BUT... when my husband and I watched it... we were very surprised to find out that it was very S-L-O-W up until about the last 15 minutes.
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