xdavid The entire movie had a glass-half-empty feeling to it, but it was at least watchable. The pyrotechnics made no sense, though, and contrary to others here I saw the twist ending coming ... not because I'm so smart but simply because everything else was so excessive.

Jackson Booth-Millard I knew one or two of the actors in this film, from the looks of it, it was going to be either be a scary film or a thrilling film, I was certainly on the right lines, directed by Rodrigo Cortés (Buried). Basically university academic Dr. Margaret Matheson (Sigourney Weaver) and her partner Tom Buckley (Cillian Murphy), a psychic, are the world's foremost investigators of paranormal phenomena, as professional sceptics they have exposed dozens of fake and fraudulent mind readers, ghost hunters, faith healers and psychic, by detecting what Matheson calls "red lights", subtle clues to the trickery behind each of these supernatural occurrences. But when charismatic legendary blind psychic, spoon-bender and mind reader Simon Silver (Robert De Niro) comes out of retirement after thirty years, the once fearless Matheson, his adversary, warns Buckley to stay away, she considers Silver too dangerous, as she suspects he was involved three decades earlier in the mysterious death of his most boisterous critic. Howver Buckley remains determined to smear the highly popular and seemingly genuine Silver, believing that doing so will cement his reputation and guarantee Matheson's funding and research for many years, Buckley becomes obsessed with his mission, and enlists the help of student Sally Owen (Elizabeth Olsen, Mary-Kate and Ashley's sister). Together Buckley and Sally employ a dazzling array of high-tech tools to uncover the secrets of Silver's abilities, but the closer they get, the more menacing Silver becomes, and following the unexpected death of Matheson Buckley questions his core beliefs. I think that's what goes on anyway, I lost track. Also starring Toby Jones as Paul Shackleton, Joely Richardson as Monica Hansen, Leonardo Sbaraglia as Leonard Palladino and Craig Roberts as Ben. This film may have a murky feel throughout, and in places you question what's real and what's not, but the talents of De Niro, Weaver and Murphy are wasted, the structure is uneven, predictable creepy things happen, and it becomes too complicated and preposterous to understand, I got bored trying to get it, and the twist conclusion falls flat, a pretty terrible thriller. Adequate!

Hala93 I think mostly every movie that people didn't understand it's rate is low . maybe your are right , movie should be easy but deep , listen people to your brain , let it go , think , believe , change in such movies .I really like it , it's full with brain storm , deep believing , strong emotions .And the special thing about this movie that it has no particular explanation, it's easily depend in you . totally like it , even i expect in the beginning of it another thing , but it was out of my expectation .Cillian murphy was amazing on this ..!

minch007 This could have been a great film. With such an outstanding cast, and potentially intriguing plot, but unfortunately it is just stupid. I really wanted to like it, but I struggled to like anything about it. The script was banal and the topic poorly researched. Someone was just plain lazy putting the story together. Here are some examples that really irritated me.Dr Matheson (Sigourney Weaver) is a psychologist who researches and debunks paranormal phenomena, in particular exposing frauds. Yet inexplicably she chooses not to investigate Simon Silver (Robert De Niro). Why? Because she has been riddled with guilt morning til night for 30 years after he made her DOUBT for a second. What??? What is wrong with a skeptic having doubts? Skeptics should have doubts, or at least be open to the possibility of having doubts. Scientists are supposed to ask questions and objectively seek evidence. You can't be objective if you have already made up your mind. Surely her momentary doubt should motivate her to investigate more thoroughly? That brings me to the second problem. The head of the Scientific Paranormal Research Centre, Dr Shackleton, prior to running his experiments states publicly that he expects to find proof of Silver's powers. Not objective. And Silver himself gets to approve the team of investigators. Not objective. These are serious flaws in the design of a scientific experiment, which is supposed to be free from bias and where the researchers need to be independent of the subjects. Even the media, let alone scientists, would reject this "experiment" as just hype for lack of objectivity and independence.Third irritation. Basic research would show that psychics are not a grab-bag of special powers. They claim to specialise in particular areas. But Silver bends spoons and performs psychic surgery and projects thoughts onto photographs and reads minds and levitates and moves objects. That's like making an Olympic athlete run, jump, throw javelin, swim, ski and shoot. De Niro's character would've been so much more credible had it actually resembled the behaviour of real life "psychics". Obviously films have licence to stretch the truth, especially with this kind of subject matter, but it still needs to be believable or it just doesn't work.Finally, the twist at the end that apparently no-one sees coming. Could've worked, but handled very clumsily. Really just a poor copy of the ending of the Sixth Sense. By the time you get to the end you're expecting a twist of some kind, but at that point I didn't care enough to try to work out what it was.Sigourney Weaver is the only reason I'm giving it 3/10. De Niro just looks silly.