SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Sameeha Pugh It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

videorama-759-859391 The great DePalma is a wondrous god of suspense, only with this one, he's falling very short it it, throwing in the usual DePalma tricks. You'll spot these, especially if you've seen seen Body Double, where he's rounded up a couple of his Scarface favs, for this, great actor, Henry, one, especially wasted here, playing the good guy this time, as a cop, who honestly looks like he's rather be somewhere else. I for one don't blame him. Fantastic Lithgow, plays a father, who's taken way too much interested in his child, and "No" he's not a pedophile. He suffers from Split Personality, where he's alto ego, a cocky, tougher, gruff bad guy, his adviser, who I didn't particularly like, is the one pulling the strings. There are a couple of others, nearly all, you won't meet anyhow. His conditioned is only worsened when his wife, (Davidovich) is messing around, with younger hottie (Bauer) which sets him on a path of murder and setting Bauer up. What amazed me here, was there was no real surprises, where Lithgow's great performance, and Sternhagen's as an old criminal psychologist, these two deserved much better material. This is a very dreary and sleepy thriller where the sunny color format here, suited it to a tee. The last imaginary image with Lithgow donning a women's wig, kind of owe's it to us. Some De Palma fans will quite disappointed with this one. Like it, just for the actors.

PimpinAinttEasy Dear Brian De Palma,you once remarked that you had to direct a few big studio films in your career in order to finance the films you genuinely wanted to make. I guess Raising Cain is among the films that you genuinely wanted to make.A middle class married man is being terrorized by his father who wants to steal his kid to use her as a guinea pig in behavioral experiments for the good of science. The man also suffers from a split personality disorder. It was an interesting story. But I am afraid, the film was dreadful. You hid the lack of genuine inspiration and substance in the film with an utterly preposterous (albeit interesting) story, over the top thrills, close ups and long tracking shots. While John Lithgow is a very competent actor, I am not sure he can play the lead and carry a film on his shoulders. He was nowhere as sinister as Margot Kidder in Sisters. Nor did he invoke sympathy like Craig Wasson in Body Double. The sub plot concerning the affair between Lolita Davidovich and Steven Bauer was a needless distraction from the interesting main plot. And unfortunately for you, the film has one of Pino Donaggio's lesser scores.Gabrielle Carteris was quite funny as the cigarette smoking mother. The film did have its share of strange and entertaining supporting characters (like the square mother in the beginning). Davidovich was sexy and her drowning scene was quite scary. And you did tie it all together quite well in the end. The film is not entirely without merit. Some of your hardcore fans are raving about the film on its IMDb message board. But I think the 6/10 rating is one point too high.Best Regards, Pimpin.(5/10)

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU This film is going to make you feel berserk and even maybe completely corrugated. Cain has been haunting Semitic and Western civilizations like hell – the proper word of course – since the birth of Ra. There is always somewhere in the godly, godlike and divine families a treacherous brother in a way or another. Strangely enough Freud preferred the treacherous only son, Oedipus, but the spectre of Cain is still flying high and strong in the sky of western and even slightly more than western consciousness.Brian de Palma had to invent a trick to make it slightly more interesting than just the bad younger brother who killed his elder brother. So he goes rake in the ashes of psychoanalysis with a lot of popular people vestment and sauce and comes up with the mad scientist, in this case mad psychoanalyst who decided to test his theory about split personalities on his own son.The idea is simple and it is said to be natural and the perversion is only the activation of it by a doctor and a father. Anyone has one personality and every single time they do something wrong or are afraid of doing something wrong they just shift the responsibility to a phantasmagorical brother Cain who takes the blame and you are free and clean like a virgin. This of course happens in your mind and you can always yell at that brother before he does the wrong thing and that's it.In this case we have somewhere a father who has been forced to develop a double personality by his own father. This bad Cain in him makes him steal children for his father to go on experimenting on live guinea pigs, or guinea fowls if you prefer feathered birds to bristled mammals, And then the wife, the daughter, and everyone else does not know what is happening except that bodies turn up here and there and children disappear from here and there.There will be a very good ending since only grownups and women die (don't tell me Brian de Palma is sexist), and a very bad ending since Cain has migrated into virtual reality and can now navigate in the world without having nothing to say to anyone and no account to give though a lot of account to settle.Poor Cain. To be like that cursed to death and forever just because God decided not to favour his present of fruits of the soil and preferred the animal presents from Abel. God cursed Cain after he killed Abel and yet Cain is the father of music and arts and of metal work, hence of the metallurgy revolution that took place some time in the middle of the Neolithic transformation and made the conquest of Europe by a minority of Indo-Europeans possible since they had metal for ploughing the earth and for defending themselves.Here de Palma only keeps the horror of the curse. Too bad because Cain is a child of light in spite of the curse God sent him: the future was not in migratory herd keepers but in sedentary agricultural workers. God had it all wrong in a way because God was a conservative conservationist. I guess God would vote against Monsanto and GMOs.We should start a Cain alliance to bring together all those who have been the victims of some higher up bureaucrats who think they are Gods because they have an armchair in an air-conditioned office, and a lot of free time to do nothing at all except jerking their neuronal and neurotic dendrites.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

ShootingShark Carter Nix seems to be a devoted husband and father, but behind this facade lurks a shady past and some decidedly odd relations. When Carter's twisted brother Cain shows up and some local children go missing, can the police figure out what's going on in time ?Brian DePalma's best films are just so deliciously twisted, and in my view this is one of his very best. There are at least five fantastic aaaaahhhhh moments in it; the comatose wife awaking from her slumber at the wrong moment, Carter abruptly smothering Jenny with the pillow, the shocking twist on the old car-in-the-swamp Psycho moment, Jenny's sudden appearance on the baby monitor, Margot headbutting Dr Waldheim. All of these are beautifully, lovingly stylised, but the whole movie is just full of fantastic sequences, culminating in the terrific showdown at the motel. It also has a completely outstanding four-minute shot in the middle walking through the cop-shop, where Sternhagen ploughs through a ton of back-story, hits about a thousand marks (including some intentionally wrong ones) and emotes like there's no tomorrow. If ever you hear some phony-baloney actor type spouting off about have to struggle to find their character, show them this scene - Sternhagen is wild, funny, gripping, irascible, scared, intriguing and intense, all at the same time. Better yet, Lithgow is equally sensational, playing five characters with terrific abandon, weedy one moment, terrifying the next. Okay, so DePalma may have trodden this ground before (Sisters, Dressed To Kill, Body Double), but nobody does these crazy, sexy, twisty-turny thrillers as well as he does, and the cinematic power of these incredible set-pieces is just astonishing. Here's a movie where not a moment is wasted, where every shot is both artfully composed and intrinsically important, where every nuance the actors can provide contributes to the mood and the shocks. It's simply fantastic from start to finish. With a terrific score by Pino Donaggio (the music makes me scream every time) and fabulous photography throughout from Stephen H. Burum, this is a masterclass is technical filmmaking. Produce by Gale Anne Hurd (of Terminator fame) and brilliantly written and directed by DePalma, this is a great, gleeful, creepy, exciting, shocking, fantastically well-executed thriller.