Ensofter Overrated and overhyped

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Cristina Eli I really enjoyed this movie for the first half part of it. It was such a pity that, somehow, at a certain moment, much earlier than I should, I understood who was the guilty part of those crimes. It was like predictable for me, in a certain way. In my opinion, there was a story writing defect that first wanted to keep you all as surprise but then you could have a quite clear idea on what should come further. Very good interpretation of Renee, as usual.

GL84 After taking on a new case, a social worker manages to save the young girl she's in charge of and takes her on as an adoptive child, but when a series of strange accidents befall her friends she suspects something is wrong with the little girl and tries to keep them safe.This one wasn't all that bad of an effort when it really tried. One of the more enjoyable elements within this one is the fact that there's a great build-up to whatever kind of person the girl is, and lets off its suspenseful tone rather nicely here. This one does a rather nice job with the way the evident danger about her is revealed, from the initial struggles about the family trying to cruelly torture her and the action-packed rescue attempt to get her out of the situation gives this a stylish start. This is admirably paid off with the second half here that builds to some rather fine moments here involving the manipulations of other people around her at the clinic which features plenty of gruesome moments with the crime-scene recreation at the beginning to the absolutely fun background check that occurs here to get the full story revealed that gives these scenes a shocking amount of weight behind them. This gets heavily improved during the fine retribution sequences where she goes out and convinces the others around her to start committing grisly acts of violence in strong accidents, from the encounter with the flies in the bathroom to the antics against her parents which have a strong vibe against them through the hallucinations she forces upon them, and the final big attack at the police station gives this a rather fun and enjoyable finish that sets up the tense finale which is what ends this on a high note. As well as the nice gore attacks and some decent enough make- up work on the demon entity at the heart of this all, it has a lot to like which manages to hold this up enough over the few minor flaws. The major issue with this one is the fact that there's very little new ground here in terms of where the story comes from. It feels really cliché and doesn't really do much different than dozens of other efforts in this style which really sets this one up to really be quite apparent from the get-go. That does end up lowering the surprise factor in so many of the scenes later on when she starts in on her evil antics as it manages to go where you expect it to and features so many expected moments because of the familiar setup. Likewise, there's little reason to understand why she keeps getting away with everything as she always seems to be in the center of everything and the lack of action to take her out makes no sense. Other than these issues, it's not all that bad of an effort.Rated R: Violence, Language and intense themes of children-in- jeopardy.

Davis P This Renee Zellweger horror film isn't the greatest thing you'll ever see, although I don't really think it's deserving of the tidal wave of negative reviews it has received since its 2009 release. The movie starts out pretty well, with some mystery and it makes you question whether the little girl is being tormented by her parents or by an evil force, or if she is just evil incarnate herself. Jodelle plays the part of Lily well, innocent and sweet when she needs to be and threatening and scary when called for. Renee really pulled off a good performance here too, she really got the over stressed, well meaning and kind social worker down. And as the film progresses she really did a good job of portraying the terror and at her wits end persona. Bradley cooper turns in an alright performance, I mean to be honest it didn't require a lot of great effort, it was just kind of a whatever character. The writing is pretty standard for the horror genre, it's not like slasher movie bad but it's nothing to be bragging about. One complaint I do have with the film is the effects of the demon when it is revealed, looked stupid and cheesy, wish they would've done better with that, came off as cheap. 7/10 for Case 39.

Danii Disaster I can't look past the fact that Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) was cast for a serious role. Would the movie be better is someone else played the lead? Maybe a little, but I doubt it very much. It's just not that good a movie to begin with.In any case, Zellweger was a poor choice. She should stick to romcoms, I think. I can't take her seriously in a role like this. To add insult to injury, the little girl was godawful, too. While Zellweger looked constipated throughout the movie, the little girl was just awkward and kind of embarrassing to watch - she was not one bit scary. Her performance could best be described as "trying too hard, but failing miserably". With lots of child actors around, it beats me why they'd pick this talent-less brat. Basically, the acting by both leads was less than convincing to put it mildly.The movie itself is a (very poor) rehash of all the other Satan-child / evil kid movies I have seen. Not really a thriller, let alone horror. I don't know what genre it falls under, but it's just neither suspenseful, nor griping, and not one bit scary or disturbing.If they wanted to make something memorable out of this movie, they should have let alone the horror theme and, perhaps, explored the girls life as though she wasn't aware that she's evil or that she didn't want to do what her nature dictated and was fighting the evil within. Now that would of made for a much better story, I think.But this banal, done-do-death, clichéd mess? What was the point? If you want far superior movies with a similar theme, try the original "Omen" (not the remake with Julia Styles), or "Orphan".