We rented this movie after seeing (and being disappointed by) Preminition and reading reviews that this movie is much more solid than Preminition. After seeing them both on back-to-back nights, I agree. The only reason I'm giving it a 7 and not a higher ranking is because I felt that the directing and editing was a little weak (the pacing of several scenes were distracting, it took me a long time to get into it, and I was jarred out of the movie into being an audience member several times because of the way it was edited/directed.) But the story is nearly perfect. There are a few nit-picky things that when analyzed thoroughly don't fit within the rules that the filmmakers set up, but you have to think kind of hard to find them (as opposed to Preminition where the flaws are so obvious and so easily fixable that you want to take the filmmakers out and shoot them for squandering such a brilliant premise... but I digress, this review is about The Lake House...) It is strange that Sandra Bullock did two so similar movies back-to-back like she did, but I guess they are very different even though they are so similar. If the director of Preminition had done The Lake House, I probably would have rated it a 9 or a 10.
Review of The Lake House
