I really loved this film, and reckon its probably Peter Jackson’s best work since The Frighteners, ‘cause lets face it Lord of the Rings was good, but Return of the King didn’t know when it wanted to end, so did so about 12 times, and King Kong was a fat monkey turd.
Mark Wahlberg and Rachel Weisz are both excellent as the grieving parents, but are not a patch on Stanley Tucci (The Terminal, The Devil wears Prada) who is both creepy and menacing as the child killer, and Susan Sarandon is brilliantly funny as the alcoholic grandmother . But I think where the film excels is in the limbo scenes which are stunning.
It does lose marks though for the end, which isn’t quite as satisfying as you would like, but given that its an adaptation there isn’t a lot Jackson could do about that without pulling a De Vinci Code and rewriting the whole ending , and lets face it that was the main, but not the only, reason it was shit.
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