....I still found it irritating in a way I find difficult to express.
Maybe it was the way the actors performed, but almost everyone in this film irritated me, in the way characters in M. Night Shyamalan films irritate me (albeit on a lower and less thought-out level). Their personalities are the type that engender more homicidal tendencies than sympathy, but conversely the character who was supposed to be the most unsympathetic, Elaine's father Addison, was played with a curious geniality by Lloyd Bridges that belied the lines he was given to deliver. Maybe I just have a hard time in seeing Bridges as the scum Addison is supposed to be. Elaine, a total mess as a person, stumbled around for most of the movie, waiting for a reason to kill her father (as if she really needed any) and Charlie is the kind of person whose "help" should have been met with a shotgun, rather than fondness. It might hurt to set things right, but sometimes just coming out and saying what the hell is going on can save on a lot of needless pain (especially for the viewers).
Not a total loss of a movie, but certainly not one I'd go out of my way to see again.
Maybe it was the way the actors performed, but almost everyone in this film irritated me, in the way characters in M. Night Shyamalan films irritate me (albeit on a lower and less thought-out level). Their personalities are the type that engender more homicidal tendencies than sympathy, but conversely the character who was supposed to be the most unsympathetic, Elaine's father Addison, was played with a curious geniality by Lloyd Bridges that belied the lines he was given to deliver. Maybe I just have a hard time in seeing Bridges as the scum Addison is supposed to be. Elaine, a total mess as a person, stumbled around for most of the movie, waiting for a reason to kill her father (as if she really needed any) and Charlie is the kind of person whose "help" should have been met with a shotgun, rather than fondness. It might hurt to set things right, but sometimes just coming out and saying what the hell is going on can save on a lot of needless pain (especially for the viewers).
Not a total loss of a movie, but certainly not one I'd go out of my way to see again.