What Lies Beneath

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Summary: Drain that Tub, Willya?
Review: I ask you, How many times would you venture near your overflowing bathtub if a scary ghost kept jumping out at you? Well, you wouldn't catch me twice there, although I might see this movie more than once. "What Lies Beneath" is something like "The Uninvited" because in both movies, you think you know why the ghost is haunting this house and these people, but boy are you all wet. I got very jumpy during this movie, because the director knew just how to keep the suspense suspended--well, at least until the last 15 minutes or so. That's when The Truth was revealed, and the movie completely fell over and became downright laughable. That shouldn't have happened, but The Murderer (who I won't reveal) kept coming like Jason from "Halloween". The whole movie audience began to revile the screen. You can try "What Lies Beneath"; perhaps you'll think the ending is not so patently absurd as I did.

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Summary: VERY GOOD THRILLER!
Review: HIGHLY RECOMENDED. JUST WHEN IT STARTS TO GET SLIGHTLY BORING AND YOU THINK YOU'VE FIGURED EVERYTHING OUT, IT THROWS YOU FOR A COMPLETE LOOP. THE LAST 20 MINUTES ARE THE HIGHLIGHT. IF YOU ARE A FAN OF OLD HITCHCOCK MOVIES, YOU'LL GREATLY ENJOY "WHAT LIES BENEATH".

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Summary: Cast Away was obviously still on his mind
Review: Robert Zemeckis has quietly become one of my favourite directors, with such enjoyable films as "Back to the Future", "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?", "Romancing the Stone", "Forrest Gump", and the best of the bunch, "Contact".

His teaming with my favourite actor, Harrison Ford (who at that point was in need of a decent part...and still is for that matter), filled me with anticipation.

As the film started, there were some good, suspenseful moments, and it built quietly, just as Contact had, with deliberately slow, but methodical pacing...but then the wheels fall off. The sublime becomes the ridiculous as the movie just keeps going, becoming more implausible and disappointing with each passing minute.

What annoyed me most, was that there obviously could have been a good movie in here. One more rewrite was probably all it would have taken, but perhaps, Zemeckis hurried through this thing to get back to Tom Hanks on the desert island.

Do yourself a favour and watch only the first hour of this film. Or do yourself a bigger favour and watch just about any other Zemeckis film.

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Summary: Very, very scary
Review: ...It is by far the creepiest and scariest movie I've seen, easily beating out the Sixth Sense, a film it has probably been compared to.

Major thumbs-up to Harrison Ford for surprising us in his role as the bad guy. Michelle Pffeiffer, however, really steals the show with her changing roles as the mother and dead girl.

The movie is well-paced and tense. Just when you think the tension is over, a blood trail or missing body leads to more fright. I am forever haunted by the sudden eyeball appearing in the knothole in the fence.

The sound and music are well done. Be sure to watch this movie in surround sound during a quiet time of day so you can be truly frightened by the subtle, distant whispers.

See it!

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Summary: Flawless!
Review: There are no bad points to this film. Great actors, unique storyline, and a really good plot all add up to a film that cannot be missed. Other than being a tad long when you watch it a second time, this movie is flawless. The special effects were smooth and beautifully eerie. I wouldn't hesitate to buy this film or to recommend it to a friend.

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Summary: pointless in every way
Review: What's the point of taking a substandard ghost script and making a whole movie out of it, especially when practically identical forms of entertainment and media just like it come out every week? Oh silly me, to make money of course. And how could they lose with Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer. Ah well...

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Summary: Buy This Movie!
Review: Robert Zemeckis does an excellent job of keeping you on the edge of your seat. Poor Claire - Michelle Pfeiffer - knows something isn't right, but no one believes her. Harrison Ford proves himself an excellent actor once again as Norman. This is actually now one of my Favorite Harrison Ford movies, though I still love his action films. I personally don't feel that there is a weak part of this movie. Buy it don't waste your money just renting it.

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Summary: What more powerful combo than Harrison and Michelle ?
Review: The movie is fantastic! The story is absolutely unique and the cast undoubtedly perefect. It's definetely a five-star movie.

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Summary: Thriller
Review: This was a good movie. It wasn't totally what I expected, but it was a good movie. Its definitely a thriller/horror movie, and you really cant just sit back and relax to watch it. There is a lot of suspense in this movie, but it tends to get a little bloody. If youre into horror movies, but dont want something as horrifying as Scream or Friday the 13th, then this is a good movie for you.

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Summary: a good thriler
Review: Well, I usually love Robert Zemeckis as a director. I loved all the Hitchkokian touches in this film. The acting by Pfeiffer is just about perfect. She creates a memorable of perfromance of a woman's mounting hysteria and fear as she learns more about her self, her marriage and the truth about her life and a certain missing girl! That's all fine an dandy. The problem with the film is it's predictablity. Harrison Ford is credible when he is playing chracters who suffer and take action to fix theor problems. Here, he is reduced to stoic mumbling. He walks through the film as if he is saying ohhh I get 20 million to act, so why not just atke it easy. Wrong choice just about his worst perfromance. But, the film has excelent cinamaoagrphy, atomosphere and the wonder ful Diana Scarwid who proves that 20 years after Mommy Dearest we can all become great