Pointlessly slow because it has no third act (and I'm being generous). Any transitional part of the movie just sits there because they need to pad. There's so much time between a doubt and it's investigation that you and your viewer-friends will guess every single development, as we did. The movie itself commits the crime of having Sandra Oh's character suggest three scenarios which might be occurring and the big surprise is that, it IS one of them. Weak, weak, WEAK!
It's too influenced by The Mothman Prophecies which also has atmosphere but lacks a single decent scare. It is also pretty icky. A boy who has been raped and sodomized by adult molesters may or may not exist. Uh, have the people in this movie ever heard of urban myths? Why have they never confirmed a damned thing about this story via a newspaper (about the only thing the news media are good for in the Bush era). You think a story this salacious could exist without Fox news confirming & exploiting it for months? You have never seen a less likely couple in all of film history than hairy grampa-gnome Robin Williams and scorching hot Cuban Bobby Canavale. Giiiiiiiiive me a break.
Stick to your g-rated, treacly novels Armistead!
It's too influenced by The Mothman Prophecies which also has atmosphere but lacks a single decent scare. It is also pretty icky. A boy who has been raped and sodomized by adult molesters may or may not exist. Uh, have the people in this movie ever heard of urban myths? Why have they never confirmed a damned thing about this story via a newspaper (about the only thing the news media are good for in the Bush era). You think a story this salacious could exist without Fox news confirming & exploiting it for months? You have never seen a less likely couple in all of film history than hairy grampa-gnome Robin Williams and scorching hot Cuban Bobby Canavale. Giiiiiiiiive me a break.
Stick to your g-rated, treacly novels Armistead!