Hide and Seek
Fresh out of Horror Movie Making for Dummies, Hide and Seek promises to be creepy and scary, but does not deliver. The movie stars Robert DiNiro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen, Elisabeth Shue, and the shortest performace by Amy Irving since The Rage: Carrie 2, which, I dare say, was equally as disappointing.
David (DiNiro), a child psychologist, and Allison (Irving) have a daughter, Emily (Fanning), and after Allison has an accident and dies, David moves his daughter to the country where she meets "Charlie", her new imaginary friend. Emily and Charlie play games, and one of their favorites is "Hide and Seek". Her only real friend is Katherine (Janssen), who is not only her therapist, but a former protege of David's. For some reason, the filmmakers decided to dye Fanning's hair black, I suppose to make her more gothic-looking, but they only succeeded in making her look more like Janssen's daughter than Irving's, a point which is never revealed in the ending of the movie.
The regurgitation of movies prior (at the risk of spoiling the movie, I'll stand mute) is prevalent and the viewer experiences a bit of deja-movie ("I've seen this movie before..."), but the worst part of the movie is when you find out who Charlie is, you have to sit through the last 35 minutes trying to figure out how they're going to take care of him. The sub-plot of the neighbors with the cancer-ridden daughter who died and looks like a bald Dakota Fanning is a dud in that they never really elaborate on anything, so one can only assume it's just designed to throw the viewer off of Charlie's real identity.
To the writer's creativity and originality, I have to say, "Please, next time, "come out come out wherever you are"."
David (DiNiro), a child psychologist, and Allison (Irving) have a daughter, Emily (Fanning), and after Allison has an accident and dies, David moves his daughter to the country where she meets "Charlie", her new imaginary friend. Emily and Charlie play games, and one of their favorites is "Hide and Seek". Her only real friend is Katherine (Janssen), who is not only her therapist, but a former protege of David's. For some reason, the filmmakers decided to dye Fanning's hair black, I suppose to make her more gothic-looking, but they only succeeded in making her look more like Janssen's daughter than Irving's, a point which is never revealed in the ending of the movie.
The regurgitation of movies prior (at the risk of spoiling the movie, I'll stand mute) is prevalent and the viewer experiences a bit of deja-movie ("I've seen this movie before..."), but the worst part of the movie is when you find out who Charlie is, you have to sit through the last 35 minutes trying to figure out how they're going to take care of him. The sub-plot of the neighbors with the cancer-ridden daughter who died and looks like a bald Dakota Fanning is a dud in that they never really elaborate on anything, so one can only assume it's just designed to throw the viewer off of Charlie's real identity.
To the writer's creativity and originality, I have to say, "Please, next time, "come out come out wherever you are"."
posted by Susan at
2/13/2005
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