Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

begob Angelic nurse struggles to help in a white-trash town where children mysteriously disappear, but the devil's gonna get 'em anyway ...Difficult to describe this. It starts well - conventional, comprehensible - with good acting, direction, photography. The lead actress is scented honey, but then she doesn't react quite as you'd expect when the horror strikes - energy without passion, no screaminess.Weirdly this is followed by a full blown chase scene that feels like the end of the story at about 40 mins. Bizarre pacing. Then the improbabilities pile up, with lots of exposition and declaratory dialogue, and I spent most of my time frowning at the screen: "What the fewk?" I guess what's happened here is somebody mixed up politics with horror and forgot to decide whether it's Marxist or Capitalist or Elm Streetist. No idea whether it's the writer or director. If you step back it seems the theme is the brain drain from rural to urban, which might work well in contemporary China, but not Washington State. Horror is not the way to tell this story, made obvious by the conspiracy theory reveal.The music and sound are restrained.Overall, the highly professional ineptness saved me from boredom, so not an epic fail.

ericrnolan I really liked "The Tall Man" (2012) though I can tell right away that many other viewers will not. And it's hard to explain why, because this is a "twist movie" that's difficult to discuss without spoilers. The film that you sit down to watch absolutely is not the same film that you wind up seeing.The movie opens with Jessica Biel as an idealistic doctor in a gorgeous but very poor Washington State small town. The town's children sporadically disappear, according to a creepy and wonderfully effective montage, and townsfolk blame the supernatural "Tall Man." For a while, it's a first-rate thriller. I jumped a few times.Then there's a twist.Then, in the movie's final 10 minutes, there's another twist that affects the first. And there's a hell of a lot of moral ambiguity. (Or maybe not – I, for one, disagreed with and would have hated the prevailing character.)I thought the whole thing was smart, creative and frightening. Jessica Biel did a great job. The sweeping pans of the forest are fantastic – was it partly CGI? Did they use a helicopter?It actually isn't a perfect mystery. There are a few implausibilities. One character is far too well adjusted for his or her circumstances, one character conceals something for no reason, and the young mute girl's decision makes no sense, if you consider what she does and does not know.Still – good movie. I'd give it an 9 out of 10.

Aristides-2 Suggestion for French director Pascal Laugier's next film: Set it in the Ile-de-France section of Paris. Have a wealthy white French doctor and his white wife set up an organization that covertly steals 3 to 6 year old Moroccan children from poor families and then places them in sympathetic upper middle-class white French families. Once placed, they will be given opportunities their birth parents can't provide. Focus somewhat on one Moroccan family whose father is a pedophile. (After all, these are lower class people who wallow in degeneracy and don't want their children to escape their place in French society; the featured family will suggest it is actually representative of this group).

Chuck Peregrin I can see why this title has such a bifurcation of bad reviews and good reviews. For one thing, if you're going by the description and you're looking for a straightforward film that meets your precise expectations for the evening, this not the film for you or anyone who likes surprises. This film takes you through multiple genres, but does it one at a time. First you think it is a horror film, and then you realize that it's a thriller, and then it gets intensely psychological, closes up with a social message, but then questions that very social message. The message at the end is sure to put off a lot of people, especially those who have children or believe in the sanctity of biological parents raising their own child regardless of the environment they raise them in. But though the film explains the motivation of Biel's character and the 'Tall Man' it also questions their motivations and casts their action in the light of doubt.The acting is intense, the twists are mind-boggling, and you'll finish the film with one of those uncomfortable feelings and questioning what you really believe in. For all of these reasons, this is a spectacular movie, which will NOT be everyone's cup of tea. But shallow sappy sympathy inducing tear jerker's like "The Fault in our Stars" or mindless action packed drivel like "Transformers 20: Something Something Darkness" have never been my style anyway, and controversial themes like this are much more to my taste.