I had high expectations of Mark Pellington's "The Mothman Prophecies" after his superb thriller "Arlington Road" which I really loved, and hope one day to own on DVD.
The trouble with The Mothman Prophecies" lies with its dreadful script - one of the worst scripts, surely ??? To compensate for the bad script, with slow plodding where nothing happens, Pellington chooses to use cinematography to create atmospheric mood to reflect the supernatural; overall I thought the cinematography was extremely distracting in places and was one of the main factors along with the script, which ultimately makes "M.P's" a cinematic disaster.
Pellington has done much better than this with his superb Arlington Road which had a well crafted and pacey plot which made you want to hang on the back of your seat.
Richard Gere didn't do much for me either... The only film I found his suitably convincing and sincere in was his role as the lawyer in "Primal Fear" which stars the wonderful Ed Norton.
Someone stated that this should be "movie of the year" based on what they've seen so far.. I am going to decry that statement, and instead suggest this movie is on par on par to being "the worst turkey of the year", and one of the worst directed movies I've ever watched. I would not even recommend people watch this movie on video..
If you want to watch a superior film from Mr. Pellington, and haven't seen "Arlington Road", do yourself a big favour and give this movie a big berth, and hire A.R instead.
I was lucky I didn't have to pay the $12.80 ticket admission price to see this 'mumbo jumbo' piece of cod's wallop. If Pellington had had any sense he should have been credited himself anonymously with a 'Smithies' title...
VERDICT: possible the most boring film I've ever had to sit through..
The trouble with The Mothman Prophecies" lies with its dreadful script - one of the worst scripts, surely ??? To compensate for the bad script, with slow plodding where nothing happens, Pellington chooses to use cinematography to create atmospheric mood to reflect the supernatural; overall I thought the cinematography was extremely distracting in places and was one of the main factors along with the script, which ultimately makes "M.P's" a cinematic disaster.
Pellington has done much better than this with his superb Arlington Road which had a well crafted and pacey plot which made you want to hang on the back of your seat.
Richard Gere didn't do much for me either... The only film I found his suitably convincing and sincere in was his role as the lawyer in "Primal Fear" which stars the wonderful Ed Norton.
Someone stated that this should be "movie of the year" based on what they've seen so far.. I am going to decry that statement, and instead suggest this movie is on par on par to being "the worst turkey of the year", and one of the worst directed movies I've ever watched. I would not even recommend people watch this movie on video..
If you want to watch a superior film from Mr. Pellington, and haven't seen "Arlington Road", do yourself a big favour and give this movie a big berth, and hire A.R instead.
I was lucky I didn't have to pay the $12.80 ticket admission price to see this 'mumbo jumbo' piece of cod's wallop. If Pellington had had any sense he should have been credited himself anonymously with a 'Smithies' title...
VERDICT: possible the most boring film I've ever had to sit through..