Grey’s Anatomy (Episode 6)

Alex gains the trust of Annie, a nervous patient with an extraordinarily large tumor, only to humiliate himself in front of her later. Meanwhile Derek chooses Meredith to assist with an elderly Parkinson's patient who may need surgery - but Bailey disapproves of their relationship and is determined to make Meredith suffer - and tensions escalate between Burke and Shepherd.

Ah, Meredith's such a fox, looking better and better by the episode. The cast is very likeable, even the nazi. Only problem I have is with the chinese chick - she looks so strange, like she's not even human. Yuck. But apart from that, it's all good, and I bet I'll keep watching this series for a long time to come. The chemistry between the people is just right. The relationship between Meredith and Shepherd is evolving, but slowly, just enough to keep the interest there. Eeew, I'm hooked - and by a stupid doctors series to boot. Where will it end?

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

USA 2005 - Adventure/Comedy/Sci-Fi — 110 min — Directed by Garth Jennings
Cast: Bill Bailey, Anna Chancellor, Warwick Davis, Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel, Su Elliot

Everyone has bad mornings. You wake up late, you stub your toe, you burn the toast...but for a man named Arthur Dent, this goes far beyond a bad day. When he learns that a friend of his is actually an alien with advanced knowledge of Earth's impending destruction, he is transported off the Earth seconds before it is exploded to make way for a new hyperspace motorway. And as if that's not enough, throw in being wanted by the police, Earth 2.0, an insane electronic encyclopedia, no tea whatsoever, a chronically depressed robot and the search for the meaning of life, and you've got the greatest adventure off Earth.

Oh. I never imagined it would be this bad, but it was. They totally botched it. They managed to make it totally boring and ultimately a dreadful movie. It was not a comedy, unless you mean a comedy of a comedy. They've tried before with TV and animated series and failed, and this just adds movie to the list. I smiled a few times - that's about it. No laughs. Not one. But that was to be expected I suppose. It shows that not every book can be filmed, and done well by it. So where did it go wrong? Well, I'd say by turning it into a love story and a space opera - both which the book isn't.

The Vogons were great, but everything else was wrong. Zaphod was cool - for a solid minute or two, but he was then turned into a meaningless sidekick. He's a sidekick to no one! Ask him. Worst of all is that when they introduced stuff, they just whisked past it without developing the essence of it, if you will, not giving it more explanation than a brief intro. Examples: You don't get to know that the Heart of Gold ship's computer is an insane, but very happy and optimistic computer. That Zaphod treat Arthur like, Arthur the Ape man. Trillian and Arthur is not a couple. And worst of all - Zaphod's second head. Agh! They totally fucked that one up! Sure they could have done better if the movie was one hour longer, but still, they screwed some major stuff up, and that's unforgivable. Just think if Peter Jackson had let Boromir survive and marry Galadriel...

My rating: 3 / 10

The Haunting

USA 1999 - Horror/Thriller/Mystery — 113 min — Directed by Jan de Bont
Cast: Lili Taylor, Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen Wilson, Bruce Dern

A remake of the classic 1963 movie, where a group of insomniac volunteer research subjects travel to a massive old mansion to undergo testing for what they believe to be insomnia studies. What they do not know is that the professor in charge is actually conducting experiments on human fear. As the days and nights pass, the group slowly begins to learn the terrifying secret behind the house's former owner. They soon realize that the house is pure evil, and they must battle a terrifying spirit to escape the house of nightmares.

While not the best 'scary house' movie, it's still much fun. It has it's scary bits, mainly from the excellent sound, that really makes you jump outta your skin at times. Otherwise, it's just a regular possessed house flick. Though this one has Catherine Zeta Jones in it. Drool. Though she doesn't wear any skimpy outfits, not does she run into the dark cellar in her undies. Damn it. She should have a clause in her contracts just so she always had to do that. They found a creepy house for it though, but as usual, most interiors were shot on sound-stages. It's apparently a college in reality, creepy place to goto school, heh. Nice special effects giving the house 'life,' and for once, used sparingly and subtly, which is good. Liam is allright, but guess what, he did this one for the cash, not for the good part. Hell, they all did, but it was still good fun.

My rating: 6 / 10

Dark City

USA 1998 - Sci-Fi/Mystery — 100 min — Directed by Alex Proyas
Cast: Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly

John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders. While trying to piece together his past, he stumbles upon a fiendish underworld controlled by a group of beings known as The Strangers who possess the ability to put people to sleep and alter the city and its inhabitants.

This is an instant classic, or as close as you can get. Been a about two years since I saw it last, but it still holds up. Top notch performances and a great story set in a moody dark city. Rufus is perfect as John Murdoch, alone in a strange world. Jennifer Connelly is just so incredibly beautiful and she's even a good actress. Looks and acting skill seldom go hand in hand, but she's great. William Hurt never does a bad part, and even Keifer does well here. You have to remember that this is a pre Matrix move, and not the other way round. The city in itself is a fifties setting, and it's excellently done. Gotta hand it to the director - he did an excellent job too. The only thing that stops this from being a perfect ten, is the final battle. It's rather generic, and totally unsurprising. If they only would have taken another path, made something special happen, I would give it a ten without hesitation, but as it stands, it's still a strong nine in my book. And that's not bad.

My rating: 9 / 10

Alexander

USA 2004 - Adventure/Drama/War — 175 min — Directed by Oliver Stone
Cast: Colin Farrell, Jared Leto, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer, Anthony Hopkins

Conquering 90% of the known world by the age of 25, Alexander the Great led his armies through 22,000 miles of sieges and conquests in just eight years. Coming out of Macedonia, Alexander led his armies against the mighty Persian Empire, drove west to Egypt, and finally made his way east to India. This film will concentrate on those eight years of battles, as well as his relationship with his boyhood friend and battle mate, Hephaestion. Alexander's conquests paved the way for the spread of Greek culture (facilitating the spread of Christianity centuries later), and removed many of the obstacles that might have prevented the expansion of the Roman Empire. In other words, the world we know today might never have been if not for Alexander's bloody, yet unifying, conquest.

Underwhelming and dumbed down, two things that sums up this supposedly 'epic' movie. Colin Farrell does an allright portrayal, as does the rest of the cast - though Val Kilmer as the King was excellent. Hannibal Lecter is his usual, mega-boring self, and Jolie did a much better job than I thought her capable of. But Olive Stone, the director, did a shoddy job at best. It sure doesn't feel epic is any way, which is what an Alexander movie should be. Too bad Baz dropped his version, it would easily have been much this movies' superior, without even trying.

The battles are way too brief and muddled, and Stone dwells too much on the wrong things and events. You never get a feel for Alexander's greatness if you will. It's a long move, almost 3 hours, and I apprechiate the difficulty of making a movie about the whole of his life, but this surely isn't it. Even a documentary on Discovery will do a better job at that. By concentrating on certain events and battles, and only brief mentions of the conquering of Egypt, Babylon and bloody much the rest too, lessens any impact it could have. It's almost as if it was made for US television, totally dumbed down, and patronizing

Deadwood (Season 2, Episode 8)

Swearengen calls a sit-down with Bullock to enlist him in "the coming campaign," He wants Bullock to contact his judge friend in Montana, with an eye toward annexation. The stage brings a pair of interesting arrivals to town. One is the new telegraph operator, who will rent office space with Merrick. The other is an enormous "bone-shaker" bicycle that has been ordered by Tom Nuttall. Showing off the specimen at his saloon, some patrons express doubt that it is built to handle streets as rutted and muddy as those of Deadwood. A bet is soon made, with many of the citizenry taking a position.

Yes! Al getting into things. Still way too slow for my liking, he should be out there stirring things up, but I guess it's a start at least. Hopefully he'll get into full swing next week, damnit! Bullock really is a pussy. He still have the spark, but his fire is almost out and has been so this entire season. He might get his act together, there are signs, but I wouldn't bet on it. He's been pussyfied by his "wife." Come on! We crave action, backstabbings and fun.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Comedy/Adventure/Drama — 118 min — Directed by Wes Anderson
Cast: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett, Anjelica Huston, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum

Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou and his crew--Team Zissou--set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly non-existant Jaguar Shark that killed Zissou's partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. They are joined on their voyage by a young airline co-pilot who may or may not be Zissou's son, a beautiful journalist assigned to write a profile of Zissou, and Zissou's estranged wife and co-producer, Eleanor. They face overwhelming complications including pirates, kidnapping, and bankruptcy.

How the Hell does this get a 7.3 rating at imdb.com? Plants? It's one awful piece of stinking shit. How the director managed to get the $25 million budget is a no-brainer with a cast like this. I bet they thought it would be a great film. I wonder how many of the executives who saw early footage from this managed to avoid choking to death. I've never seen such a waste of talent go so totally overboard, pardon the pun, in such a total shipwreck of a movie. This one falls flat on all counts. The director must have spent the money on hookers and parties, because it's not in this movie. Well, apart from the 25 cents he spent on the story.
Performance-wise only Willem Defoe manages to do anything at all with his role, which isn't much to boast about. Bill Murray looked like he was sleepwalking for the entire duration. Oh, I really suffered to get through the whole thing, but I forced myself to watch it till the end. I barely made it. Wes Anderson should be taken out to sea and dumped there along with all copies ever made of this total waste of film. The world would be a better place. Fuck!

My rating: 1 /10

Grey's Anatomy (Episode 5)

An exhausted Meredith thinks she may have made a mistake during surgery, which could jeopardize her career. Meanwhile Izzie's plan to throw a party for her new boyfriend goes completely awry, and Alex deals with a patient who is addicted to painkillers.

Meredith struggles with taking responsibility, and we get a peek at her nipple (if you look real carefully) as the episode starts with her in the shower. Keep your eyes peeled to the lower right corner of the screen, as the camera pans down, and you won't miss it. It looks very nice! Oh, the show? Well after that start, I didn't pay much attention, heh. Joking aside... Izzy throwed a party at Meredith's house without telling her about it, and when M came home to find her house infested with partygoers, she got mad. Only to realize that why wreck it, get drunk instead. Responsible. Right.

But I still like (gasp) this show. For some reason, it just feels right. Wonder why that is. Just found out that Boston Legal won't return to it's time slot Grey's have inherited. Apparently, Grey is doing pretty good, so they've canned the BL episodes for next season. I love James Spader's character on BL, and Shatner is pretty cool too, if a bit too loopy. Can't wait for it to return, and Grey's a good replacement. I'll keep following both, as they are good. A rare thing these days filled with shitty reality-shows.

Femme Fatale

France 2002 - Thriller/Crime — 110 min — Directed by Brian De Palma
Cast: Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Antonio Banderas, Peter Coyote, Rie Rasmussen

Con artist/thief Laure Ash helps pull off a diamond robbery in Cannes during the film festival. She double-crosses her partners and makes off with the diamonds to Paris, and then leaves the country. Seven years later, she re-surfaces as the wife of the new American ambassador to France where a photographer, takes her picture which sets the stage for a motion of events.

This movie has one of the hottest lesbian scenes ever in a regular movie, between models-turned-actresses Rie Rasmussen and Rebecca Romijn. Rebecca also does one damn hot dance/strip scene that will make a bulge in your pants - unless you're gay. Storywise it's a bit too haphazard at times, and you never get the whole picture. You're kept on your toes, guessing what's gonna happen and why somethings do happen. It works fine, but at times you really feel that there need to be some justification to some events. Well, you get it close to the end, as most of the film has happened the Dallas way - turns out Rebecca lying naked in a bathtub has dreamt it all. But when she awakes, the events she dreamt of, start happening, so she alters it. If you a decent crime/heist story, this is a no-brainer to watch. If you also like naked hot women - do yourself a service and watch this! Rebecca goes full frontal, which in itself should be enough!

My Rating: 7 / 10

Grey's Anatomy (Episodes 1 to 4)

Meredith is a first year surgical intern at Seattle Grace Hospital, the toughest surgical residency program west of Harvard. She and fellow first-year interns Cristina Yang, Izzie Stevens, George O'Malley and Alex Karev were students yesterday. Today they're doctors and, in a world where on the job training can be a matter of life and death, they're all juggling the ups and downs of their own personal lives.
Grey's Anatomy focuses on young people struggling to be doctors and doctors struggling to stay human. It's the drama and intensity of medical training mixed with the funny, sexy, painful lives of interns who are about to discover that neither medicine nor relationships can be defined in black and white. Real life only comes in shades of grey.

Sat down and watched all four episodes in one go, and I'm surprised to say that I did like it better and better as we got to know the characters. I thought it would be some crap like E.R. but to my surprise it was not. It's very well written and although it's a hospital drama, it's not as heavyhanded as E.R. and other such shows. They interact well, and they are even likeable. Especially the Meredith/Dr Shephard romance. I hope they let is grow slowly, and not force them together. It's a vital to keep the sexual tension between them. I like Dempsey, he has that wild look in his eyes when he looks at her. It's a recipe that makes for good fun. Kath Heigl is there just for the teenage droolers that like to see her boobs behind incredibly thich bra's, which she somehow always use. Not a chance of ever using a bra that won't cover 95% of her boobs. Too bad boys. I like Ellen Pompeo as Meredith much more. She's better looking, has infinitely more class, and isn't a bimbo like Heigl. I like her more and more for every episode.

Numb3rs (Episodes 1 to 5)

Inspired by actual cases and experiences, "Numb3rs" depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime. The story of an FBI agent who recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a very distinctive perspective.

Ep1 — Serial killer
Ep2 — Gentlemen bankrobbers
Ep3 — Spanish Flu
Ep4 — Unsafe Skyscraper
Ep5 — Clown kidnappers

Saw the first five episodes and I gotta say that I like it. It's not as good as last years excellent "Line of Fire" that was cancelled for some stupid reason. Stupid ABC executives. I sure hope they bring on some more dynamics between the cast in this one, as it's seriously lacking so far. The characters just aren't very interesting somehow. We have barely got to know them, and none of them seems to have any quirks we can like or dislike. That's what's needed. They've covered some pretty cool topics, from the Riemann Hypothesis to a leathal disease on the loose. It's produced by Ridley and Tony Scott, the famous directors, but I sure can't see their hands in anything. Seems to me they've only lent their names to this series, or have they sold out? The writers have done a good job researching stuff, but somehow that plots are almost infantile and the conclusions invariably stupid and they don't feel realistic at all. They should be able to do much better. I hope it picks up in the coming episodes, which I'll try to watch tomorrow.

24 (Season 4, Episode 18)

Curtis brings in a suspect who has critical information about Marwan's next strike. Michelle orders Curtis to use harsh methods to interrogate the suspect, but things get complicated when Marwan sends a lawyer to defend his rights. New President Logan's advisors begin to worry as he continues to exhibit fear in the face of the ongoing terrorist threat.

Getting information from accomplices seems to be tough, and Jack has to resign from CTU and break some fingers to get the info he needs. Naturally the crooks get a nuke, and will probably detonate it in next episode - unless our intrepid hero Jack can stop them. Oooh. Aaaah. It's getting old real fast. Read about a rumor that Maddy, the 747-parachuter/bomber will be back in the last episode. I love Mia, so that's something to look forward to atleast. Felt like fast-forwarding the entire episode, and wouldn't have missed any vital or new info. Chucks.

Deadwood (Season 2, Episode 7)

Al is surprised to find a door that connects his place to the Pioneer, finds a despondent Merrick, who explains that Tolliver has wrecked his newspaper office in retribution for not publishing the county commissioner's notice.
At the Chez Amis, Tolliver enlists Lee to dispose of the three whores' bodies.
Joanie is badly shaken, and confides her secret to Charlie Utter.
At the Grand Central, a seething Utter continuously insults Wolcott and accuses him of stepping on his foot. Charlie unleashes a string of profanities and ends up beating the man brutally in the street. Bullock finally stops Utter's savage attack, and Al, begins to connect Charlie's actions to the evacuation of the prostitutes the night before.

Most of the time, Bullock is a pussy this season. He does nothing, just goes about his business, doing what amounts to almost nothing. Somebody please give him his balls back already! And Al keeps improving, but not nearly as fast as he should, to get this stagnant show running. I sure hope he does - for all our sakes, and soon. As it stands now, it's little more than a borefest than as fun as it was last season.

The Interpreter

USA 2005 - Drama/Thriller — 128 min — Directed by Sydney Pollack
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Jesper Christensen, Yvan Attal, Earl Cameron

An interpreter at the United Nations overhears an assassination plot to kill a visiting president. An Secret Service agent is assigned to the case, which proves to be more difficult to solve than he first thought, especially since he starts to have feelings for her. But is she innocent, or part of the plot?

Nicole looks lovlier than ever, and sure surprised me by doing a good performance. I'm used to see her in ultra-dramas like The Hours and such garbage, so it was nice to see her in a thriller. It's not as good as The Others, which she did a couple years ago, but it's still quite allright. Sean Penn owns his role too, as a depressive agent. He somehow fits well into that role. The plot is a bit weak, as should be expected, but if I have to complain about anything, it's the slow pace. Not that it was too slow, but the story moved along at such a slow pace I could hardly sit still at the end. And it was never very interesting either, and you could feel that something about Silvia (Nicole) just wasn't right. So you could see the conclusion fifty miles away. The direction was allright to, if not very exciting, but Sydney have never been very exciting has he?

My rating: 6 / 10

Layer Cake

Thriller/Crime/Action — 104 min — Directed by Matthew Vaughn
Cast: Daniel Craig, Tom Hardy, Jamie Foreman, Sally Hawkins, Burn Gorman, George Harris

A successful cocaine dealer who has earned a respected place among England's Mafia elite and plans an early retirement from the business. However, big boss Jimmy Price hands down a tough assignment: find Charlotte Ryder, the missing rich princess daughter of Jimmy's old pal Edward, a powerful construction business player and gossip papers socialite. Complicating matters are two million pounds' worth of Grade A ecstasy, a brutal Serbian assassin and a whole series of double crossings. The ultimate last job, a love interest called Tammy and an international drugs ring, threaten to draw him back into the 'cake mix'. But, time is running out and the penalty will endure a lifetime..

From the director of the great "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" and "Snatch" films comes this movie that is in a similar vein. But it doesn't quite make it, at least not to top any of those two. Still, it's pretty nice with loads of double crosses and plot twists, albeit most are somewhat predictable. The best scene is the assassin getting shot in the head as he's about to assassin the would be assassin. Heh, nice sentence. The morals of the film? Well, simply put you'll have to wait for the final scene, to get that. It's some good entertainment, and your time is better spent than watching a stupid Hollywood clusterfuck like "Be Cool" with Travolta. Trust me.

The Night Watch

Russia 2004 - Fantasy/Mystery — 115 min — Directed by Timur Bekmambetov
Cast: Konstantin Khabensky, Vladimir Menshov, Valeri Zolotukhin, Mariya Poroshina, Galina Tyunina, Yuri Kutsenko

A long time ago, The Forces of Light battled the Force of Darkness, but when the two sides realized they were too evenly matched, a truce was reached. In present day Moscow, disheveled Anton gets ready for his first assignment - capture or kill vampires that have broken the "truce" established by the aforementioned battle thousands of years ago.

Now who would have guessed that something as cool as this would come out of Russia? Great special effects, and lovely settings. The only drawback it has, is that it's Russian; which will (probably) stop it from doing great at box-offices all over the wrold. Sadly. Because the whole mythos of this movie is just awesome, and it's the first of a trilogy, with the second named "The Day Watch" being released in Russia this year. Wanna bet against Hollywood negotiating to do an US remake, set in New York or Los Angeles? I enjoyed it immensely, especially the gloomy setting, and I'm looking forward to seeing the sequel. Now that is not something I usually do - ever.
The offbeat story and mix of weird scenes was also a joy to watch. After seeing it you just want more and more. You need answers, you need to find out what's really happening and why. I normally root for the bad guys, but I found myself rooting for the good guys in this one. Damn it.

My rating: 8 / 10

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride Trailer

Apparently, Tim's latest stop motion animated feature film (based on a 19th Century Russian folktale, where a man mistakenly weds a corpse) is nearing completion in London, as there now is a trailer available over at Apple's Website. It's actually been available since January. You can really tell from the picture that it is Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, right? Here's short synopsis of the story, to wet your appetite...

Once upon a time there was a young man who lived in a village in Russia. He was to be married and he and his friend prepared to go to the village where his bride-to-be lived, two days walk from his own village.

The first night the two friends decided to set up camp by a river. The young man who was going to be married spotted an unusual looking stick in the ground that looked like a bony finger. He and his friend started joking about this bony finger sticking out of the ground and the young man who was going to be married took the golden wedding ring from his pocket and put it on the strange-looking stick. And then he started to do the wedding dance around the stick; he danced around the stick with the golden wedding ring three times and he sang the Jewish wedding song, and recited the entire marriage sacrament as he danced around the stick, he and his friend laughing the whole time.

Their fun stopped suddenly when the earth started rumbling and shaking beneath their feet. The place where the stick had been opened up and a very bedraggled looking corpse emerged, a living corpse, she had been a bride, but now was barely more than a skeleton held together by shreds of skin, still wearing an old torn white silk wedding dress. Worms and spider webs hung on the once-beaded bodice and tattered veil.

The two young men were aghast.

"Ah," she said, "you have done the wedding dance and pronounced the marriage vows and you have put a ring on my finger. Now we are man and wife. I demand my rights as your bride."

Now doesn't that sound real horrorshow? If it is even close to being as good as Nightmare Before Christmas was I'm one happy camper. Burton rarely makes a bad movie, and this looks just fantastic!

Deadwood (Season 2, Episode 6)

Alma proposes forming a bank, and looks to familiar faces to run it. To test himself, Swearengen grants audience to a long line of supplicants; talks with Farnum and Miss Isringhausen prove most illuminating. The arrival of low-priced Chinese whores begins the next phase in Tolliver and Wolcott's arrangement. Humiliated by Bullock, an angry claim owner looks to "square the scales." An enchanted Merrick tours a new schoolteacher about the camp. Wolcott's inner demons test his alliance with Tolliver, and prompt Stubbs and Utter to covert action.

Nasty action in this episode, as three whores are murdered by an angry Mr W. Al's slowly getting on his feet, and the camp better watch out. I hope he puts the fired governant in her proper place soon. There is something with her that I don't like, and she seems to be out for Al's hide somehow. It's sure time for Al to wake up and start wreaking some havoc with the camp that seems to be slipping from his grasp. He needs to stamp his authority before it's too late.

The Manchurian Candidate

Thriller/Mystery — 129 min — Directed by Jonathan Demme
Cast: Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, Jon Voight, Meryl Streep

When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened - or didn't happen - in Iraq. As Marco investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out.

Denzel always do nice movies, and this was no exception. The little man wins over the big bad corporation. Now who doesn't love that? It almost never happens in real life, but this is the movies... Meryl was perfect as the mom that would walk over any corpse to get what she wanted, and Denel was just as good as he always is. But Liev Schrieber owned this film. He was just right for the role and did a first-class job. Sure there were few real surprises, and some things was a bit farfetched, but it was still good entertainment. Not many slow or dull moments, just a movie to sit back and enjoy.

My rating: 7 / 10

Mothman Prophecies

Thriller — 119 min — Directed by Mark Pellington
Cast: Richard Gere, Debra Messing, Laura Linney

John Klein, a Washington Post reporter, whose wife died in a mysterious carcrash involving a winged apparition (that only she saw) leaves for an interview qith a governor. He mysteriously he winds up in Point Pleasant, a small town in West Virginia. The locals are seeing winged apparitions too, and he sets out to try to find a solution as to why he is there.

This 2002 thriller was surprisingly good. Lots of scary scenes that got you biting your nails, and without the gore that normally accompanies scary scenes. This is more a mind-thriller, as it gets you thinking about it, instead of just gluttoning on the blood-fest. Really shows you that to be a good thriler, it doesn't have to have bloodbaths in it. This works much better as you start imagining things as you watch it, outting yourself in Richard Gere's place. His character sure is much braver/more stupid than I would be. I'd not investigate such matters. That which you cannot explain or understand - leave it alone. The characters are just some small town folks, as normal as anyone, and not stereotypes. It feels real, and that's where this film succeeds where so many fail. I wouldn't want to watch this alone in a remote cabin at night. I'd not be able to sleep without large amounts of alcohol...

My rating: 7 / 10