I watched this for the third time the other night and I’m a bit baffled at the overall low rating for it, because I really do find it to be a really decent suspense/thriller type of flick that should have no problem entertaining most. It’s not as if it’s non-stop action, but there’s hardly a dull moment. I stayed engaged the full duration wondering what was coming next. Maybe it’s the ending that’s bothering people. It’s not a favorite type of mine, but it’s common enough, and it was plenty suitable here.
My first watch was probably somewhere close to its release date, which was about 18 years ago. I’ve re-watched many other films that I first saw with younger eyes and had different feelings about them, just having changed as I’ve aged. But I know I enjoyed this film back then and I enjoyed it in the now too.
The second watch came about years later after having the bee scene keep coming to mind, thus I posted in a “what’s that movie” forum to find out the forgotten title.
I had a third time watch with my boyfriend, simply because I wanted to share with him a film that had always stuck in my head so. Practically the whole time my boyfriend shouted, “Cameras!” He enjoyed it though, and also doesn’t agree with the lower ratings. He says the suspense was well done and he can be quite critical of film making, which he’s dabbled in himself. The twist did pretty much immediately click for me the moment Susan Sarandon’s character talked about getting pregnant when much younger to her father. It took my boyfriend until the actual reveal, which makes me wonder how quickly I figured it out during the other watches.
I’m not sure that Emily Blunt was a household name yet for me in my previous viewings and I kept thinking, she makes for a great “bad guy.” Some of those looks she gave!
Review by Bunny HarvestmanBlockedParent2024-02-06T18:09:14Z
I watched this for the third time the other night and I’m a bit baffled at the overall low rating for it, because I really do find it to be a really decent suspense/thriller type of flick that should have no problem entertaining most. It’s not as if it’s non-stop action, but there’s hardly a dull moment. I stayed engaged the full duration wondering what was coming next. Maybe it’s the ending that’s bothering people. It’s not a favorite type of mine, but it’s common enough, and it was plenty suitable here.
My first watch was probably somewhere close to its release date, which was about 18 years ago. I’ve re-watched many other films that I first saw with younger eyes and had different feelings about them, just having changed as I’ve aged. But I know I enjoyed this film back then and I enjoyed it in the now too.
The second watch came about years later after having the bee scene keep coming to mind, thus I posted in a “what’s that movie” forum to find out the forgotten title.
I had a third time watch with my boyfriend, simply because I wanted to share with him a film that had always stuck in my head so. Practically the whole time my boyfriend shouted, “Cameras!” He enjoyed it though, and also doesn’t agree with the lower ratings. He says the suspense was well done and he can be quite critical of film making, which he’s dabbled in himself. The twist did pretty much immediately click for me the moment Susan Sarandon’s character talked about getting pregnant when much younger to her father. It took my boyfriend until the actual reveal, which makes me wonder how quickly I figured it out during the other watches.
I’m not sure that Emily Blunt was a household name yet for me in my previous viewings and I kept thinking, she makes for a great “bad guy.” Some of those looks she gave!