When I first saw this trailer I thought it looked pretty good, but I was a little taken back when I saw that it was directed by Tom Shadyac of "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective", "The Nutty Professor", "Liar Liar" and "Patch Adams", but I still wanted to see it nonetheless. Well, I can't really say it was a bad movie, it was actually pretty interested and very haunting at times, but over all it was a little slow. I kept hoping it would just get to the point.
The story is pretty interesting and I thought it was pretty well acted, I even thought the child actors in the film did a pretty good job (usually I have a problem with child actors).
Ok, this is the part where I have to rant and rave about what I didn't like about the movie, so if you don't want to hear any SPOILERS, stop reading now!
I realize that it's kind of impossible to think logically with a movie like this because the whole movie is based on fantasy, but nonetheless I thought to myself: "If this woman is trying to get this guy (Kevin Costner) to go somewhere, and she has the ability to take a dragonfly-paperweight out of the box that Kevin Costner just put it into, unwrap it from the paper it was in, and put all the clothes back in the closet so that Kevin Costner's character would believe this is for real, wouldn't she have the ability to get out a friggin' piece of paper and a pencil and write it down on a post-it note or something?" I do realize however that had she done this, it would result in a fifteen minute movie and wouldn't be nearly as exciting, but it seems an awful lot more reasonable. Also...why did she draw all those cross things on the window when she could have just put the name of the place she wanted him to go to on the window? Again, I realize that this would make a very uneventful movie.
Other than that, I thought it was a pretty good movie and had a very nice ending. I was a little unsure how they were going to end the film, but I thought they did a good job. If you want my opinion though, I wouldn't recommend seeing in the theater, I'd probably wait till video, or at least see it at a matinee showing. Thanks for reading,
-Chris
The story is pretty interesting and I thought it was pretty well acted, I even thought the child actors in the film did a pretty good job (usually I have a problem with child actors).
Ok, this is the part where I have to rant and rave about what I didn't like about the movie, so if you don't want to hear any SPOILERS, stop reading now!
I realize that it's kind of impossible to think logically with a movie like this because the whole movie is based on fantasy, but nonetheless I thought to myself: "If this woman is trying to get this guy (Kevin Costner) to go somewhere, and she has the ability to take a dragonfly-paperweight out of the box that Kevin Costner just put it into, unwrap it from the paper it was in, and put all the clothes back in the closet so that Kevin Costner's character would believe this is for real, wouldn't she have the ability to get out a friggin' piece of paper and a pencil and write it down on a post-it note or something?" I do realize however that had she done this, it would result in a fifteen minute movie and wouldn't be nearly as exciting, but it seems an awful lot more reasonable. Also...why did she draw all those cross things on the window when she could have just put the name of the place she wanted him to go to on the window? Again, I realize that this would make a very uneventful movie.
Other than that, I thought it was a pretty good movie and had a very nice ending. I was a little unsure how they were going to end the film, but I thought they did a good job. If you want my opinion though, I wouldn't recommend seeing in the theater, I'd probably wait till video, or at least see it at a matinee showing. Thanks for reading,
-Chris