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| Rating: Fair Distributor: Dreamworks SKG Running Length: 2 hours, 10 minutes MPAA Rating: PG-13 Release Date: July 21st, 2000 (wide) Genre: Thriller, Suspense Director: Robert Zemeckis Cast: Michelle Pfeifer, Harrison Ford, James Remar and Diana Scarwid. |
| Plot: A successful scientist's (Harrison Ford) wife (Michelle Pfeifer) thinks she is seeing things in their new house. This comes at an already uncomfortable time as their only daughter left for college a few days prior. For a long time he does not believe she is really seeing supernatural things, until she slowly uncovers a terrible secret about him. Then she finds herself struggling to maintain control of her life, and her sanity. |
| Critique: What Lies Beneath seemed to me, after I saw advertisements, to be a stylish, interesting, mystery, suspense film. It had suspense, but it did not have enough mystery or plot. It had a lot of suspense, but the suspense became tiresome, and wore out its welcome as the film progressed. I found myself seeing the same situation over and over again. These were situations that not only occured at the beginning of the film before, but in previous films. The climax is especially tiresome, it does not know when to bow out gracefully. The script is very dull, uninventive, and surprisingly shallow. It does have its moments though when Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeifer steal the show. Nonetheless, this film just prooves the time old theory a great cast does not necessarily make a good film. Robert Zemeckis's direction is not so terrible, he does a fair job given the weak screenplay. Together with the cinematographer he creates a few spine tingling, stylish scenes. The actors all do pretty well. In the end it is really Clark Gregg's screenplay that bogs down the film. It is just too cliched, and contains a terrible climax and ending. In conclusion What Lies Beneath has moments where its cast and director shine through, but it cannot overcome a loss of destination. Its climax and second half are horrible, and is cliche ridden. review by supernothingman |
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