Dorff is stellar and the film builds some tension but a bit too much required suspension of disbelief, some plot holes, weak dialogue, and two increasingly
silly twist endings ultimately sink the piece.
Not exact matches
This is a terrible,
silly, puzzling, dopey movie made even worse by its pseudo-intellectual
twist ending.
And, of course, The Visit contains a third - act
twist that's both shocking and impressively plausible, with, unfortunately, this superb development followed by a generic final stretch and a
silly, somewhat desperate shock
ending.
The film's got a major
twist at the
end, but it's a
silly one and isn't, with any thought on the matter, particularly feasible.
Of the other competition buzz films leaving Sundance with distribution deals that guarantee their release: Peter Hedges's Pieces of April is a
silly sitcom with a Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
twist; Tom McCarthy's The Station Agent is little more than a three - character, metaphorically burdened off - Broadway play, but Peter Dinklage's understated performance gives it a bit of substance; Catherine Hardwicke's thirteen captures the hysteria of teenage girls, and its depiction of how a good girl can go bad overnight will give parents nightmares, but the script, co-written by Hardwicke and Nikki Reed (who also plays one of the two teen leads), is as overexcited as the girls themselves, and its affirmative
ending is unearned.
A very creepy haunted house movie with some mediocre acting, cheap special effects and some rather confusing, if
silly, plot
twists at the
end.