Neop2Lemus's Journal: Review: Hide and Seek [De Niro]

Hide and Seek

A slap in the face and their hand in your wallet. At least, those words occurred to me as I watched it.

A "thriller" which is painfully boring, full of horrible plot holes, silliness (Monarch butterflies in the woods during the winter, one they killed BTW), dialogue so bad only De Niro could deliver it half believably and every cliche on the face of the planet. This was plainly put together to make money with as little artistic effort as possible, starting with the script.

The final kick in the teeth is that you spend the entire movie guessing who the murderer is, and then, in the end, you can't. The plot twist at the end is utterly impossible so you can't deduct who the killer is as they violate the laws of reality.

I begged my buddy to split at the 1/2 way point, to split and go to the pub but he insisted on sitting right through to the end of the film. We did get to the pub though so the evening wasn't a total waste.

But ...

[bettiwettiwoo]

But aren't horror movies always rather illogical and full of plot holes?

Re:But ...

[Neop2Lemus]

True, yes, you are right, but this one, I think, was particularly boring and bad.