Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

generationofswine Have you seen it? No? There is likely a very good reason for that...it stinks.Like nearly ALL the endless remakes and reboots that have been plaguing movie goers for the past decade or so....all this is, is a heartless version of the original.It has no heart.It has no soul.It is a retelling of a film that we all love and cherish...and it adds nothing to the story. It improves nothing but the special effects--which held up very well over time--and in some cases belittles the fans of the original...particularly in the fact that they remade the movie at all, without adding anything clever to it.Like so many other remakes it is a hallow shell of the original.

Danii Disaster A very average thriller that it's very entertaining. Too predictable, unexciting, and banal. No tension, no suspense.Whoever picked out the cast, is clearly not suitable to pick out actors for movies, and should be fired immediately. All wrong. The Mum's plastic nose was very distracting. And the girlfriend? Why was she even necessary? Her stumbling around half-naked in a tiny bikini for most of the movie, without actually adding anything to the story, served no purpose whatsoever. People watch thrillers for suspense; not to see a swimsuit model. The actor playing the troubled son was probably the most miscast actor here. It is hard to imagine someone less convincing than him in this role. The main character - the stepfather - was also miscast. This guy doesn't have what it takes to pass for a psychopath. I wasn't convinced by his acting or intimidated by his character for a second. In a word: an exceptionally lousily-cast movie.Don't even get me started on character development. There was none.The story sounded intriguing enough... but only in theory. It is sad how they took a promising plot and made it into something as flat and boring as this movie turned out to be.Stale, suspense-less, predictable, badly-executed wannabe thriller (read: snorefest). Basically, very average. To say the least. Wouldn't recommend.

GL84 Returning home from military school, a teen discovers his mom's new boyfriend will go to extreme lengths to keep a psychotic image of the perfect family together, and that he and his family are in big trouble when he fears that he's going on another rampage.This here turned out to be quite the bland and unimpressive thriller. Most of the problems here stem from the fact that this whole film is based on set-up rather than horror actions, which just drags this one out to ludicrous lengths in order to sell the overall storyline. Since there's a large portion of time spent on the family used to him while he not only has to adjust to life back home again but also to her new man as well, which takes forever to get going in the first half the film really seems quite bland and overall a struggle. Once it gets to the introduction of the alternate identity and his past there's a rather big stumbling block in how badly this stretches out his secret from them by making his instability so obvious with the different secrets and explosive outbursts attempting to hold everything back from getting out is a lot of work needed trying to build something that doesn't really need as much to accomplish this rather simplistic turn. There's nothing here that warrants stretching out the investigation to the point it gets to here where it has him coming up with something that legitimately should've exposed him only to have it shot down unnecessarily on the most utterly flimsy points possible which feels quite lame and clearly screams being there to pad out the running time here when this one should've just let it out with the actual realization of his attitude and truth for everything which is quite a big struggle to understand what's going on. This here really holds back the slasher elements down to the point where instead the thriller aspect here is kept up to such a dominant angle that there's very little of the film that holds it's interest at all which keeps this one so dragged-out holds this down quite readily. Capped off with a series of lame, utterly bloodless and unnaturally tame series of kills and a lack of sex-appeal despite plenty of opportunity featuring this intention which really lowers this one even further, these here keep this down to the point of not really making the positives mean anything. The few positives here really stem from the film's final half which is when this one gets going with the stalking and battling him off. There's some fun with the final clue needed to fully piece the puzzle together and leading into the big chase and stalking around the house up into the attic which is admittedly creepy and gets enough action and energy going that it comes off quite nicely even with the clichéd resolution. As well, though it takes way too long to unfold it features a strong outline of how he gets found out, as the different methods built up to get him out are quite good in principle that gives this a little extra. Still, the other flaws here hold this one back considerably.Rated PG-13: Violence, Language and themes of child violence.

Paul Magne Haakonsen If you, like me, did see the original "The Stepfather" movie, then chances are that you most likely will find this movie to be a totally unnecessary remake. While this 2009 version is in itself entertaining and thrilling enough to keep the audience on the edge of their seats, it is a movie that the cinema could have been well enough without.The story is about a killer who preys upon families without a father in the frame, where he movies in, settles in and then kills them when they have served their purpose.The movie is nicely filmed and cleverly set up to thrill the audience, which director Nelson McCormick did quite well.Carrying this movie almost entirely by himself was Dylan Walsh, in the role of the deviant stepfather.The 2009 version is good for those who haven't already seen the original movie from 1987. But for us who have, it was a 'why was this remade?' moment.But all in all an entertaining movie and good thrill ride, with some fairly good moments to keep the viewers on the edge.