Supelice Dreadfully Boring

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Clement Tyler Obropta You sit down in a cozy diner. It's familiar, like you've been to a thousand diners like that one before. Maybe you've been to them once a week, if you're into diners. And maybe when you go, they don't let you in because that particular diner — for whatever reason — only admits customers 17 years of age or older. I don't know.You order the "Hideaway" omelet, which you think will be good because the menu assures you that the ingredients come from an organic farm. The Dean R. Koontz Organic Farm, let's call it.The waiter comes out with your omelet and, lo and behold, your waiter is Jeff Goldblum!Goldblum says, "Here's your... ah... omelet, sir... or... or madam — I'm not sure of the... ah... exact... gender of the person I am speaking to," and then he puts the plate down in front of you.And it's just awful. Everything is lousy. Nothing works. Nothing is memorable. It looks like any ordinary omelet, except the ingredients all look fake and taste even worse. The bacon, which the menu brags is added in to make the omelet look cool, looks like it was made in the '90s, a decade notorious for its fake-looking bacon. To make matters worse, the whole thing reeks of cheese. It's all so cheesy.And though the ingredients are normal, everyday omelet ingredients — mushrooms, cheese, tomatoes, onions — they come together in an odd and confusing way. Not only that, but you also taste chocolate and apples and the faintest whiff of shrimp, even though none of these things fit in with your omelet. Plus, the more you eat the omelet, the messier it becomes. It isn't long before the undercooked eggs are splayed out all over your plate, and you consider leaving the diner right at that minute, but you remember that you're paying about $6 in 1995 money for this omelet. You can't just get up and leave it. Plus, you owe it to Jeff Goldblum to listen to what he has to say, even though he's talking about how he lost his daughter in a car accident and you don't even remember how he got on that subject to begin with.In fact, the only thing that makes the experience worthwhile is Jeff Goldblum, who just rambles to you the entire time you're eating that garbage omelet. He's holding a shotgun, too, for some reason. That's cool, you think to yourself. Jeff Goldblum looks like a badass when he's holding a shotgun.And when you've finished eating the omelet, Jeff Goldblum thanks you for your time and takes the plate back to the kitchen. You never see him again, but you decide that, in two weeks, when you've forgotten that you've ever eaten the "Hideaway" omelet, with its synthetic ingredients, confusing recipe, messy eggs and overwhelming cheesiness, you'll remember who it was that gave it to you: Jeff Goldblum.So maybe you'll be back to that diner to eat another meal with him, but you know one thing for sure: You're never going to order that goddamned omelet again.

Gerardo García Don't forget to watch the final scene. If you are patient enough, wait until the credits are over and you will be rewarded with one final scene. I won't tell you anything about it, you have to see it for yourself. Like this one, there are many films that have inserted one extra piece of the story. Some times you have to expect the unexpected, a twist in the plot right in the final scene. Why directors include such easter eggs? Maybe they expect that a film-goer like you should see the entire movie, his whole piece of art. So, run to your video store o videoteque and place the VHS or DVD in your player and enjoy. Remember: the story is not over till it's over.

juliesunshine I did enjoy this thriller, it was very suspenseful throughout, climaxing in a marvellous finish.Having read the book (which was brilliant) as well, I must say certain key aspects have been changed for the movie, like for example Regina's character.In the movie, Regina is Hatch's biological daughter - a blonde, green eyed, carefree, flirty teenager, while in Koontz' book Regina is a crippled, small-for-her-age but very smart ten year old orphan with "grey eyes and beautiful deep auburn hair", who is later adopted by Hatch and his wife Lindsey.Also, Hatch dies in a traffic accident in the movie and is resuscitated after two hours. In the book, Hatch drowns, but is brought back to life after just over an hour.Hatch is described as "five foot ten, 160 pounds" in the novel. Jeff Goldblum, who plays him in the film, is much taller at six foot four and a half and significantly heavier as well.Lindsey is blonde in the movie, but in the book she is described as a woman with "dark hair".So much for authenticity! At least they made an excellent choice with Jeremy Sisto, who played the mad serial killer Vassago very convincingly.If you happen to have read the book first, you can't help but notice the dissimilarities, but that surely didn't stop me from enjoying this movie a great deal. If you haven't read the book at all, this film will blow you away! Gina Skinner, near London, UK

nittycritic POSSIBLE SPOILERS HEREIN! Note also that although I personally shun the lengthy review, in this particular case (my first review in fact), I have written a long one myself, for reasons that will become obvious.PLEASE BE ADVISED:1) Do not see this film (it is that bad – the details in a jiffy); and 2) When you have done so (seen not this film), it is safe to return here and read the rest of this review.Now that you have complied with the above, let me begin by saying that this is one of those movies that, initially, is just passable enough, in spite of the leaps of faith (suspensions of disbelief) that are required of you, not to turn you definitively off before the plot, initially, begins to suck you in (don't worry, it will soon repel you – oops! – make that "would soon have repelled you").Or maybe I should begin by saying that this is one of those movies that you would normally never be tempted to see, and that the only reason you finally seriously considered seeing it (on that movie channel that regularly shows this film, along with a smattering of other repeats) was because there was nothing else particularly interesting on the other channels, yet you were determined to see a movie on the tele on that occasion, and further, none of the films in your video collection beckoned to you, nor were you of a mind to leave your abode in search of a rental.The main two problems with this film, apart from the fact that none of the actors, except for the chap who played the minuscule part of the police detective (I remember him best as Dr. Watson in a Sherlock Holmes series), are capable of rising above the mediocre, are A) The protagonist's journey to the beyond and back relies too heavily on graphic portrayal rather than on suggestion (and this graphic rendering of the soul's maze-like journey (the eyes are the conduit) through the synapses that are presumed to connect this world with the beyond – which journey was replaced throughout the middle section of the film with the capacity of the two linked characters (see the plot summary), once the hook-up was firmly established, to see through each other's eyes – returns with a vengeance towards the end of the film, where it degenerates into a cheap, deus-ex-machina ploy), and B) The implausibilities accumulate at an exponential rate, causing first fidgeting, then red ears, then outright shame accompanied by nausea (to take a simple example, since each of the two linked characters knows that the other can see through his eyes, why give important details away like addresses that can easily be traced? – but of course, without these dumb mistakes, the dumb plot couldn't advance to the dumb ending!). If this film begins at the top of the hour on your movie channel (assuming that you decided to ignore my advice in (1) above), then at roughly the top of the next hour you will find yourself zapping over to catch the stale news headlines, just like I did. After that I zapped elsewhere, but found no alternative worth watching. Having, in the meantime, invested so much time in this crappy film, I decided that I should at least catch the ending so that I could piece the storyline together, however bad it was (one feels guilty for having invested so much time in so much froth, yet one feels equally guilty at not seeing it through, since the hope is that by being able to piece the storyline together, one will have salvaged the time already invested... this is not unlike the manner in which Brer Rabbit found himself hopelessly stuck in the tar!).I missed huge parts of the film between the 58th and 100th minutes (it is 105 minutes long, circa), then came back in time to catch the ludicrous (and ludicrously graphic) climax (but given the absurdity of the build-up that the bad guy's hideaway itself represents – which part, granted, I only caught in snatches – something far-fetched was required to cap off this story). I skipped the ending, which I am sure was dopey... one must cut one's losses however one can. After a film like this, nothing hits the spot like a good, sudsy bath!