The Dark (2005)
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Movie Reviews of The Dark (2005)
Movie Review: The Sheep made me do it, I swear, it was the Sheep!!
Summary: 2 Stars
Maria Bello (Silver City, The Sisters) stars as Adele who brings her daughter Sarah, played by Sophie Stuckey (Close Your Eyes, I Capture The Castle) to her father James, played by, who else, well Sean Bean (GoldenEye, Patriot Games) of course. Their, things seem to be going ok but Adele and her daughter Sarah have, well, Mom/Daughter issues to work out. Something happens when Sarah goes missing under the water and Adele freaks out. She soon discovers that the place around where James lives has a dark and I mean "Dark" secret behind it. So, when Adele finds clues about her daughter that lead to a young girl named Ebrill, played by Abigail Stone, she tries to find her daughter, wherever she is. It goes slow at the beginning building up towards the end which is the best thing in the movie...I dont mean the final shot, I mean when Adele jumps off the cliff and from then on, it becomes good. Not much of a mind-bender here. Some of the stuff is predictable and also to add it has more creepy looking kids because creepy looking kids are always fun in movies. Bello isnt doing her best here (check out A History of Violence!!) but she manages to save it along with, of course, Sean Bean, who seems to play bad guys every which way he goes (and sometimes he doesnt) but he gives a decent enough performance. Also starring Richard Elfyn (Mabel, Hedd Wyn) and Maurice Roeve (Beautiful Creatures, Solid Air). Certainly worth a look for fans of the actors. Plus it's better then some of the crappy straight-to-video horror releases that fill up the video store.Movie Review: Recycled
Summary: 2 Stars
This movie is along the same lines as The Ring, and The Grudge. If you are fans of these movies then this one will make you very happy. It's thought provoking and has a good story, but I'm just tired of movies like this. There are a couple parts in the movie that make you think something else is going on but then it never goes back to those scences or never expound on them making you wonder why they are there in the first place as they end up having nothing to do with the "horror" if you couuld call it that.Movie Review: HORRIBLE MOVIE, VERY CONFUSING
Summary: 2 Stars
I BOUGHT THIS FOR MY SISTER FOR HER BIRTHDAY BECAUSE SHE LOVES SEAN BEAN. LET ME TELL U, HER LOVING SEAN COULDN'T SAVE THIS MOVIE. WE ALL THOUGHT IT WAS TERRIBLE AND WAS VERY CONFUSING. I DIDN'T LIKE IT AT ALL. IF YOUR A SEAN FAN GET IT TO ADD TO YOUR COLLECTION, BUT DON'T EXPECT ALOT FROM THIS MOVIE. IT LOOKS SCARY AND IT TOTALLY ISN'T, LETS YOU DOWN.Movie Review: This could have been great.
Summary: 2 Stars
With Sean Bean and Mario Bella in it, I was expecting a far better film. They are both excellent actors and I they were both brilliant in it but the script was all over the place and quite bland.
Obvious J-horror influnces but this just didn't come together for me and left me bored and un-moved.
Wish it was better.
Movie Review: Jump Maria Jump!
Summary: 1 Stars
I have to say I had no expectations going into this movie, I watched it with an open mind, ready for anything. What I got was movie that not only managed to make me want to go to Wales, but also made me want to wail for hours because It was a waste of time. I am just confused about the whole thing really, the plot the characters the ending.....I see other reviews on here about how "creepy" it was, and I just didn't feel that. What I felt was an extreme hatred of the main woman played by Maria Bello (who I have never thought had a face or talent for acting) What they tried to do was take some made up legend of an otherworldly plane, where the dead go, and we can get the dead back if we give something living. The daughter is whisked away like Penelope taken to Hades but with much less interesting results. The mother and father, now have to take care of a displaced spirit child, her haunted freaky father, and a bunch of sheep that just need to be shorn and turned into a nice Ikea blanket for me. Are we supposed to care for this mother who hits her daughter, goes out and parties to the extreme enough to where the father abandons his family to go live amongst the obviously naïve and gullible local folks? (Who worships in an abattoir? C'mon people) none of these folds deserved children, much less a ghost one. So when the mother realizes that she sucks, and decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to get her daughter out of underworld foster care I didn't really care, I was thinking the girl was much better off. I was also bothered by the girls attempted suicide and the fact that the father had no idea about it, what mother is so selfish that she keeps something so horrible from the father, because her daughter asked her too? Um, maybe what's wrong in this family is that No one communicates!!!!! Oh, wait, they all flipping know Morse code so that's enough?!?! There aren't any genuine scares, and sheep with glowing eyes aren't scary unless you happen to like eating lamb chops and feel guilty about it. The ending , both of them, didn't leave a good feeling or bad or even tie things all together, it felt rushed. I don't understand Hollywood's obsession right now with creepy children, it's an echo of the days of "the bad seed" and "the omen" but not homage, more like terrible copycats with no "oomph". So see this movie If you like Sean Bean, he is the only good thing about it, other than that see it to cheer when Maria Bello hurls herself off a cliff.