StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Thehibikiew Not even bad in a good way

SunnyHello Nice effects though.

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

tvsweeney-39052 A very different "horror" story, more a diabolical Home Alone combined with The Omen.Unable to get a loan to open a diner, an ex-con lets a friend persuade him into a kidnapping. He and the others soon discover their victim isn't what he appears to be and disaster follows.This movie is filled with familiar faces, even if the audience won't be able to put names to a good many of them. It seems a great many TV series are represented, with Josh Holloway from Lost leading the way. Blake Underwood, as David, is a fantastic little actor, handling the adult dialogue the kidnap "victim" delivers with just the proper menace and unnerving stares. It'll be interesting to see what this youngster does if he continues as a actor after becoming an adult, for his portrayal of David is eerie.No mention is made of why David is the way he is or exactly what he is, though there is a climactic scene toward the end of the movie in which it's disclosed he's already killed his father and nanny. A little background would've been good though it isn't necessary for the story other than giving some explanation to the audience.There are a few shock moments, making one jump, and more than enough psychological moments as when Roxanne is trapped in a shower with a wolf sniffing outside the open bathroom door.All in all, an expected good shocker of a psychological drama.

Arian Arifi I wanted to watch a movie a few days ago. So i saw on Netflix and i found this movie. Holy F what a movie. Where should i start....Plot and Writing: So the plot of this movie is some guys wants some money to open a restaurant, so they get the idea that they would get the money from kidnapping a child. So the characters are pretty dumb. I don't care/relate to them because of how they are. The only one i relate to is Rox and she ends up as a whiny bitch. Sometimes the characters teleport from one place to another just to say one line and then they are gone. One of them can go through walls and they don't ask any Questions like How? The start of the movie don't connect to the rest of the movie. There is wolves everywhere in this movie. The cops are pretty dumb and they only guess' what is happening. Some characters disappears in nano seconds. The dialog is terrible. The biggest flaws in this movie is with the script, if they had a better script they would have a better movie. Overall rating is 4 out of 10 not good. Directing and Editing: It could have been shot better. There was a terrible edited fall in the start. The director wants you to think something is scary but it just comes out as laughable. There is Jumpscares all over the place. It could have been done better. Overall 6 out of 10 for that. Acting: The acting is decent. I did not think it was awful. Michael Rooker did a good job with the material. Sarah Wayne was fine in her role. The guy who played Max could have been better. The mom was Awful. And the boy who played David wasn't good. The the rest was just decent. Overall 5 out of 10 everyone was Mediocre.Music: I cant even remember the soundtrack. And if i cant remember it, its not more then 4 out of 10 for it. Just a bland movie, it could have been much better if it had a better script. Overall a 5 out of 10 stars fro me.

davis2000 Ordinarily I wouldn't have watched this movie since I hadn't heard a thing about it and the cover looked a bit cheesy. But there wasn't much else available so I took a gamble. We sat down to watch it with low expectations and after a somewhat shaky start it became so scary my wife bailed out and I had to watch the last half alone. Overall the character development is adequate for this type of movie but a bit implausible at times.** spoiler ahead **There were some familiar faces in this, when Sydney (Michael Rooker in a minor but well-done role)died I felt like I did when I watched Deep Blue Sea where Samuel L. Jackson bought it early on. I can see that Josh was played by a guy who was on Lost but I've never seen that show. I was pleased to see Gus from Psych in a serious role and his fate was a bit of a surprise, too. And Teryl Rothery from Stargate was good as the adoptive mother of "poor little David." The methods used for the killings is typical, heart attack and falling thru the ice which is good since the kid never wants to be connected to any of the deaths. The kid playing David who forces the deaths is eerie right from the start. It looked like David not only expected abduction but was happy to go along. They did telegraph the identity of the "mastermind" or at least I figured it out before the show was half over, but the reveal was still fun. The ending was quite clever with Josh deafening himself to obviate the kid's whispering and the final blow was surprisingly not upsetting. By then David was not a kid in my mind at all so they could have blown him up and I wouldn't have cared. It was done more or less in shadow so it's not explicit at all.They don't waste time trying to explain the kid's abilities, probably a mix of his artwork and whispering, so it's left up to the viewer to decide how he can do what he does which makes plot-holes much less likely. If it's whispers how can he control events miles away or even know about them? But if it's partly his drawings then who knows what he can do which was smarter than I expected.Acting, sets, wardrobe and script were all well-done and the SFX with the wolves was subdued but effective. I'm glad they didn't explain how the kid does things or how he got his abilities so it's not necessarily the "evil angel" he seems to suggest. Well worth the rental and if it's on TV for free I'd recommend it. It's unusual to sympathize with the bad guy/kidnappers but compared to the creepy-eyed kid it's not hard to do so with the exception of the third male kidnapper, Vince I think. He's so thoroughly unlikeable that I had hoped he'd be the first victim. A tiny complaint is that the girl, Roxanne, appeared to mother the kid too much and too early but that could be explained by her guilty conscience. 9/10 and I'll look for it again in the future.

FlashCallahan After being released from prison, Max and his fiancé Roxanne wish to have a fresh start of their lives running a small diner of their own.However, the bank refuses to loan them and without alternatives, Max accepts the invitation of his former partner Sydney and his associate Vince to participate in the kidnapping of the son of a wealthy woman in New England, under the command of a mysterious leader.The quartet drives with the boy to a camping area in Maine, closed in the cold winter, where they are individually disturbed by whispers that affects their behaviours until Max discloses the dark secret about David and his mother....The Omen, meets Orphan, meets any movie that features an evil child, although this rips off the first two Omen movies with two identical kills from the two movies (the hammer is reminiscent of the church spire, and the ice drowning is identical to Damian).There are dogs in it, and Micheal Rooker, who gets fed up of the whole thing half way through and has a heart attack.The acting isn't the best, and the kid is annoying, not evil, and becomes more unbearable as the film reaches it's unsurprising climax.The sets are good, and there is an eerie feeling to the film, but it's been done before, and doesn't offer anything new.