
Movie Info
Genre :
Thriller, Horror, Sci-FiRelease Date :
August 17, 2007MPAA Rating :
PG-13Director :
Oliver HirschbiegelStarring :
Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jackson Bond, Jeffrey Wright, Veronica Cartwright, Malin Akerman, Q-Tip, Alexis Raben
REVIEWS RATE:
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“..what ultimately kills the film is the real lack of threat and horror..”
by David Mercier [Film Judge]

“..war good, movie bad..”
by Peter Howell [Toronto Star]

“..unfinished and underwhelming..”
by Rob Humanick [Slant Magazine]
“..stylish and smart..”
by Kenneth Turan [LA Times]

“..still mired by its derivativeness and too-pat ending - and it also apparently had problems getting off the shelf..”
by Kit Bowen [Hollywood.com]

“..so comically bad..”
by Jack Mathews [NY Daily News]

“..mostly about delivering thrills, and chills, and a bunch of fast, no-nonsense edits..”
by Steven Rea [Philadelphia Inquirer]

“..may induce drowsiness, rather than goose-bumps..”
by Tim Knight [Reel.com]

“..just a TV movie with talented actors..”
by Jesse Hassenger [Filmcritic.com]
Review rate : C-
“..fundamentally hollow..”
“..fundamentally hollow..”
by Michael Sragow [Baltimore Sun]
“..feels like a self-canceling mix of creative and commercial decisions..”
by Dennis Harvey [Variety]

“..doesn't fail so miserably as to warrant dumping, but is going to be a hard sell any time..”
by Roger Moore [Orlando Sentinel]

“..an erratically assembled mess that fails to satisfy the expectations of any genre's adherents..”
by James Berardinelli [ReelViews]

“..a sci-fi thriller, sadly, it?s a mess..”
by Ty Burr [Boston Globe]
Review rate : B+
“..a new version of an old horror movie..”
“..a new version of an old horror movie..”
by Tom Maurstad [Dallas Morning News]

“..a movie at war with itself and suffering grievous wounds, patched up with such haste that the stitches still show..”
by Rick Groen [Globe and Mail]



