Hide and Seek

"I will put lipstick as nail polish and you will pay!!!"

It is good to catch up some sleep this weekend. On Saturday, I slept through till mid afternoon and ended having a headache for sleeping too much. Pete wanted to see Hide and Seek so we ended up in Chatwood for the afternoon session. When we got inside, there were only a few group, suddenly before the movie starts, the whole cinema was filled with screaming teens, just kids everywhere, laughing, chatting, screaming all sorts, thought this gonna be a long afternoon.

Anyway, just from the trailer where Dakota Fanning (A VERY PRECOCIOUS KID!! Everyone knows I have a thing about precocious kids!!) saying "come out come out, whatever you are.." I thought nothing else can be cheesier than that line. The movie is about a father (Robert de Niro) and his daughter Emily, (Dakota Fanning) moved to a country town to start a new life, after his wife suicided in the bath tub. Since the move, Emily started having a good friend called Charlie, who likes to play hide and seek. Charlie wants Emily help to stop his father being happy by having a crush on a local girl (Elizabeth Shue). The question of who is Charlie goes on through the whole movie till the end when all are revealed with a twist.

I was watching the Movie show the other day, David and Margaret both agreed that John Polson, the australia director, do need to choose his story carefully for his film. I thought what a nice way for them to say the film was a disaster. I thought the story has already been done million times. It is a blend of The Shining, The Others and The Sixth Sense, if you know what I mean. The movie itself has a lot of holes unsolved and I felt it doesn't make sense at all. Throughout the whole movie, teen kids screaming at every tension bits, making the whole cinema laughed, surprisingly it was the only time we didn't find annoyed to have kids fooling around in the cinema cuz I could totally sensed the ridiculous plot in the film that makes everyone giggles.


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TOTAL : 4.0/10