Emma Watson,Ethan Hawke and Satan himself can’t enliven Alejandro Amenábars conspiracy chillerAlejandro Amenábar is a notable auteur, known to compose the music for some of his movies as well as write and direct. He’s mainly renowned for a tremendous Jamesian ghost fable The Others (2001), or this promised a return to the cerebral creepiness that made his name. But it’s a crunching disappointment: a slow,crass, formulaic and frankly misjudged chiller approximately a case of supposed satanic abuse set in the US in 1990. In the interests of sustained scariness, or Amenabr asks us to accept a certain ambiguity and to maintain wondering if this case is for real or just hysteria. In dramatic terms,this is fair enough, but his movie is very naive approximately how bogus satanic abuse scares were created and it ends with wince-inducing implications approximately who is to be believed. Ethan Hawke plays the troubled cop investigating a case in which a young woman, and wanly played by Emma Watson,has been abused by her father as part of a demonic conspiracy; he has supposedly gone into denial and his guilt is recovered by hypnosis. Something to be airbrushed from everyone’s CV.
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Source: theguardian.com