A bad movie

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since it was starring Julianne Moore and since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, even if it was maybe not the worst movie I have seen with Julianne Moore, it wasn’t far from it, I’m afraid. Basically, it started out with a mental patient with a multiple personalities disorder but, like so many other thrillers or horror films, instead of developing a realistic and rational portrait of such a disease, they went paranormal which is such a lame and predictable approach. In fact, in this case, it was actually even worse as they went for some religious mumbo-jumbo which became increasingly non-sensical. For example, how did Sammy, the little girl, get sick? Indeed, she was never in direct contact with David/Adam/Wesley/Whatever. If this curse could work somehow remotely, what happened to all the atheists living in this city or even in this country? Shouldn’t they get sick as well then and die? Towards the end, there was a flashback supposedly explaining what actually happened to Jonathan Rhys Meyers’s character but, even though I saw this movie only yesterday, I don’t think I would be able to explain how it all actually went down. The fact that I stopped caring about what was going on for at least 30 mins before this flashback probably didn’t help. Concerning Rhys Meyers, I can understand the appeal for him to play a character with multiple personalities but I’m afraid he didn’t have the acting chops to pull this off. By the way, the whole thing turned out to be pretty rough for the main character played by Julianne Moore as she started as a window and, as the movie ended, her whole family was pretty much wiped out (indeed, her father, daughter and brother all died before the end-credits). Anyway, to conclude, the whole thing was just pretty bad and you should probably avoid it.