Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Kirpianuscus off course, it is not the most inspired word for define it. but the meaning of "seductive", near "Fascination", maybe, is simple - a film about other. as answer, as cure, as friend, as danger. sure, I am an admirer of Cate Blanchette and this does me more than subjective. but "The Gift" has the admirable virtue to be a film about people from the right angle. and this is the motif to see it. for remind vulnerabilities and need of miracles. and to understand. the reactions about obscure aspects of near every day reality.

TonyMontana96 (Originally reviewed: 14/01/2017) Now where to start? This film opens with a scene where one of Blanchett's character's children says " Mommy what does F**k mean", could nobody think of better dialogue, most of the universe know what it means, but really, why waste time with that kind of silly nonsense. Then we meet Buddy played laughably bad by Giovanni Ribisi who is speaking so unclearly I was looking for the subtitles option on the remote. Swank plays a wife beaten controlled woman with little to no personality, her husband Donnie played by the miscast Keanu Reeves is a real scumbag who pretty much tries to attack half of the characters, I for one cannot believe Reeves playing a bad guy, as it just does not look convincing in the slightest. J.K Simmons is in charge of the disappearance case but seems like an uncaring, disrespectable lawman, who is more interested on who took his donuts or if there's fresh coffee. Chelcie Ross (Jessica's father) does little worth mentioning except for his laughably awful scream, or cry, or whatever that sound was half way through the picture. My most hateful performance would have to go to Katie Holmes (Jessica) though, who plays a spoilt whore and the girl that goes missing, but I for one was thankful she was no longer on the screen, as she is untalented and embarrassing. However there were two watchable performances, notably by Cate Blanchett (Annie the fortune teller) and Greg Kinnear (Jessica's fiancé), who at least made one or two scenes bearable at the least. I expect more from a decent director like Sam Raimi who's also responsible for this mess. The Gift is labelled as a horror film, but a few cheap images and suspense free plotting would say otherwise, I also didn't feel thrilled or remotely interested into what was going on.Before the ending I have to point out more rotten stuff, such as its lack of interesting dialogue and Buddy (Ribisi) going on about how he touches himself thinking about his father, (In which later on he tries to set him on fire and gets sectioned) which is so painfully cringeworthy I wonder who's idea it was to add a distasteful theme like that to a horror picture. Sure there's one decent courtroom scene that lasts all but 5 minutes but it's better than anything else in this wreck. Now time for the ending, where we find out whodunit; so Kinnear strikes Blanchett over the head with a torch, a few seconds later he is prevented from killing her (by Buddy of all people) only later on when they make a quick stop to the police station with Kinnear, the officer tells Annie (Blanchett) that Buddy has hanged himself at the psychiatric hospital therefore he could not have saved her, meaning it was apparently his ghost that had come and saved her, which is so ridiculous, inept and void of common sense, it puts the nail in the coffin for this suspense free, horror clunker.

SnoopyStyle Jessica King (Katie Holmes), the fiancée of Wayne Collins (Greg Kinnear), has gone missing. Annabelle Wilson (Cate Blanchett) is the local psychic who has visions of Jessica King. Following her advise, Sheriff Pearl Johnson (J.K. Simmons) dredges the swamp and finds Jessica's body. Donnie Barksdale (Keanu Reeves) is jailed for the murder. However, Annabelle keeps getting visions. There's more to the murder.Director Sam Raimi has teamed up with Billy Bob Thornton once again and this time as a writer. Cate Blanchett is terrific. There is an overload of big time actors. I almost wish that some of the lesser roles get played by smaller unknown actors. When it's overloaded like this, the movie can feel very Hollywood. However Blanchett never once feels fake in any way. She becomes the character with ease.

kai ringler Keanu Reeves Cate Blanchett, and Katie Holmes, star studded affair as a pyshic reader is called in when a woman disappears and the police can't find her, she is asked by the girl's rich father to look for her,, as time passes she has vibes that tell her where to look,, soon she finds the girl in a pond dead. this lead's to the suspicion of her violent husband played by Keanu Reeves,, I thought a lot of people were turned off by his character, seeing how abusive he was to his wife. is he the killer,, sure looks like it , but looks can be deceiving,, even after the husband is locked up she still has vibes about the killing.. you will just have to watch and see if Donnie really did kill his wife or is there someone else out there who had it in for her,, yeah the father daughter kiss, kinda threw me off guard, I was like wait a minute weren't they a little too close.