Review of Backtrack

Review: I lost interest in this movie because it's extremely slow and really boring. The tone that was set from the beginning, is pretty glum and the whole "I'm seeing dead people" concept, dried up after a while. Sam Neill (Duncan Stewart), was totally wasted as Peter Bowers (Adrien Brody), psychiatrist and the suspense element of the movie was quite bad. On the plus side, Brody does put in a good performance and he brings some intensity to the movie but the script is badly put together, which is a shame because there was some decent material which could have made the movie much better. Anyway, Peter Bowers is a troubled psychiatrist who is getting over the lose of his young girl, with his depressed wife. Peter also sees a psychiatrist, Duncan Stewart, and when he gets a visit from a young girl, who disappears into thin air, he starts to delve into his past which leads him back to his family home. Peter then starts to investigate an incident that happened with him and his close friend when he was young, and he soon realises that there was more to the fatal accident. For people who haven't seen the movie, I don't want to spoil the plot by saying what exactly happened but believe me, it isn't that great. Anyway, I wasn't that impressed with the film and I expected better from Brody and Neill. Disappointing!

Round-Up: This movie was directed by Michael Petroni, who wrote the Book Thief, The Rite with Anthony Hopkins, The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treaded and Possession, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. Personally, I think that he should stick to writing movies because this film was pretty bad. 

I recommend this movie to people who are into their mystery/thrillers starring Adrien Brody, Sam Neill, Robin McLeavy, Bruce Spence and Jenni Baird. 2/10