Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Taylor Cole Hide and Seek is an amazing film that questions the safety and sanctity of family. It follows David Calloway, played by Robert De Niro, and his daughter Emily, Dakota Fanning, who move suddenly after wife and mother Alison, played by Amy Irving, commits suicide. Once they move strange things begin to happen that revolve around Emily. For example, David wakes up at the same time each night, the time his wife died. He found his wife in the bathtub at this time, so every night he wakes up, he goes to the bathroom. Since moving, every time he goes to bathroom at this time, there is writing on the wall in blood and something in the bathtub, like, at one point, a dead cat. He always asks Emily who did it and she always replies, "Charlie". However, no one knows who Charlie is. In the end, we find out that David is Charlie and that David has a multiple personality disorder. The cast of this move is phenomenal. For being so young, Fanning does a phenomenal job at portraying this girl who is so lost and confused. She has no idea what to do because her dad is two different people. She does a great job at showing the stress this puts her under. De Niro also has a stunning performance. Waking up night after night to horrific scenes in the bathroom must be terrifying and De Niro does a perfect job at exemplifying that.The editing in this movie makes it obvious to the watcher that De Niro is Charlie if you re-watch the film. In one scene, David puts a tea kettle on the stove and walks away from it. He goes to his office when he hears Emily yell. He walks back into the kitchen and his tea kettle is overflowing and boiling over. David had only put the tea kettle down a few seconds before. He goes up to Emily's room and asks why she yelled. She replies with, "Charlie just left". After re-watching the film, you realize the tea kettle boils over so quickly because David is Charlie. David has no recollection of when he becomes Charlie. This movie is incredibly creepy and dark. It's a favorite of mine because it truly confuses you and makes you think. However, the premise of the movie is a bit of a stretch. It seems strange to think David could commit these terrible acts and not leave any clues behind that it's him. At the end, David realizes he is Charlie and then turns into Charlie. Suddenly, every aspect of David that he had is gone and doesn't come back.Hide and Seek is an incredibly well edited film that offers an original, thought-provoking plot. The editing in this film is phenomenal and adds so much to the story. The performances by the two main characters really makes this story believable. However, the plot itself is a little hard to believe. The plot is supposed to be believable. Instead of a dark, creepy story, sometimes, because of the plot, it becomes comedic.

lolidunno16 Could this film be any more cliché? Hide and Seek is about when a man finds his wife dead in the bathtub at two in the morning on New Year's Day and his ten-year-old girl daughter is traumatised and will not speak.Then we get cliché after cliché for 90 minutes, as well as a stupid and cop-out ending. I will not spoil the ending because I think people should see the stupid ending for themselves. We've seen this stuff before so many times. Schizophrenia has almost become a stock plot for horror films. Gone are the days of vampires and witches. It's all just about mental illness now. And you only have to see 15 minutes of the film to realise this.However, I will at least give them points for trying. They obviously tried very hard to make this a good movie. It just didn't work out. They tried to do a few twists, but they simply did not work.4/10.

Leofwine_draca HIDE AND SEEK is a creepy psychological horror starring Robert De Niro, cast against type as a psychologist and family man, who goes to live in a new rural home along with his daughter Dakota Fanning after his wife's tragic suicide.The film has much in common with the current run of haunted house flicks like SINISTER and MAMA, in that it focus exclusively on building a tense atmosphere with suggestions of the supernatural. You can tell through the presence of muddled flashbacks that there's going to be a twist at the climax, and sure enough in the last half hour things go in a very different (and, it has to be said, disappointing) direction. The reason for the disappointment? It all gets very over the top and Hollywood-ised, in the worst way.Until that point, the film isn't bad, but it is a bit dull. De Niro is at his best when he plays angry or psychotic, but his character is rather dull here for the most part. He's still the best thing in it, however. I found the casting of Dakota Fanning a real mis-step, given that she fails to elicit the least bit of sympathy for her irritating character. The supporting cast are quite good, including a strong Famke Janssen, an almost unrecognisable Amy Irving (from CARRIE) and a youthful-looking Elizabeth Shue. But it's not enough to change HIDE AND SEEK from being anything but a distinctly average movie.

LeonLouisRicci Horror and Extreme Horror Violence (read splatter) Fans were Universally Outraged, or at the Least Disappointed in this Psychological Picture with an All Star Cast and a Promising Premise. It is a Deliberately Paced (read pay attention) Movie that seems Better after its Over and the Events are Replayed in the Mind, then it was upon First Viewing.Dakota Fanning, Continuing Her "wise beyond years" Career as a Pre-Teen Haunted by the Suicidal Death of Her Mother as She is Intrusted with Her Father Played by Robert De Niro Playing a Psychologist.Things do Add Up Eventually and it is Tension with a Capital T as Things Unfold Creepily and it is Dakota's Acting that Keeps all the Other Actors on Their Toes and Really does Steal the Show. That is a Fear that Most Adult Actors, somewhat unfounded, have in Working with Children. But here the Myth is Manifested.Slightly Above Average and is Worth a Watch for the Child Star and De Niro's Against Type Attempt at Something Different.